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February 7, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

Smashing the law without breaking it: A Commission guide

How to create a general monitoring obligation without creating a general monitoring obligation? That is the question that the Commission has been trying to answer with the Article 13 of its “Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market”. It aims at solving the issue of a so-called “value gap”, that is […]

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June 21, 2006

Court rules Dutch mp3 search engine unlawful

The Dutch Court of Appeals in Amsterdam has ruled that search engine zoekmp3.nl is unlawful. This search engine provided links to mp3-files on the World Wide Web. The court chose not to answer the question whether linking itself to unauthorised mp3-files is an infringement of copyright law. The lower court had found that this was […]

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July 5, 2006

Google's victory in court against German publisher

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Google has just obtained a significant victory against the German publisher Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG), having asked an injunction in a German court to stop the giant from scanning books in its Books Library project. WBG dropped their case on 28 June after the judge told them they […]

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November 8, 2006

Danish ISP forced to block Allofmp3.com

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A Danish court ruled against the Danish ISP Tele2 and ordered to block all access to the site Allofmp3.com. According to the ruling, the ISP is willingly infringing copyright if its customers use AllofMP3 to download music. IFPI Denmark sued the ISP, Tele2, in July 2006. It […]

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November 8, 2006

Fileshares get different treatment in Europe's courts

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A few interesting decisions regarding the copyright infringement by fileshares have been taken in the last weeks by courts from different states in Europe. Usage of p2p programms has been considered totally different in decisions in Finland, Sweden and Spain. At the end of October 2006, a […]

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June 6, 2007

CSS protection used in DVDs is "ineffective"

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In an unanimous decision on 25 May 2007, the Helsinki District Court ruled that Content Scrambling System (CSS) used in DVD movies is “ineffective”. The decision is the first in Europe to interpret new copyright law amendments, based on EU Copyright Directive of 2001, that bans the […]

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December 19, 2007

Creative content online – main topic in new EC documents

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new policy paper drafted by the European Commission (EC) shows its intention to promote new measures to fight against illegal file-sharing, taking as a positive example the French agreement between ISPs and the record industries already presented in EDRI-gram. The policy paper obtained by EurActiv and […]

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January 16, 2008

UK Government continues to pressure ISPs for Internet filtering

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 8 January 2008, at the launching of the government consultation on new copyright exceptions, Lord Triesman, the UK minister for intellectual property, threatened the ISPs with the introduction of new legislation to force them to block illegal filesharing in case they cannot find a voluntary agreement […]

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June 4, 2008

BitTorrent tracker sites threatened by draft ACTA agreement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new international trade agreement, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which is now under discussion might strengthen criminal sanctions against BitTorrent tracker sites for exploiting copyright material online. The tracker sites state they do not profit from Internet users sharing music, movies and software, saying that the […]

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June 17, 2009

More voices in the EP for digital rights

The recent elections have brought more seats for parties supporting digital rights in the European Parliament (EP), such as the Greens, UK Independence Party or the Liberal Democrats. The Swedish Pirate Party has succeeded in getting a seat as well. The Pirate Party has succeeded in obtaining 7% of the votes in Sweden, thus winning […]

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September 9, 2009 · Blogs

Consultation on how to operate EU's digital library

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Beratungen darüber, wie die digitale Bibliothek der EU geführt werden soll | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1514] The European Commission launched a consultation on 28 August 2009 on EU’s digital library project Europeana, set up in November 2008, in order to find the best way to make the project work. Differently from […]

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March 10, 2010

UK Government to decide on the Internet disconnections and web blocking

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [GB-Regierung entscheidet über Internetsperren und Webblockaden | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1757] Discussions continue in the House of Lords over the controversial Digital Economy Bill especially over Internet disconnections (or account suspension, as the UK Government is calling it now) and web blocking. The draft law would give the power to the […]

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