Results for copyright

March 26, 2019 · Highlights | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

EU Parliament stands up against censorship machine

Today, on 26 March, the European Parliament voted against adopting the controversial upload filters as part of the copyright Directive text. This vote comes after what was an intense campaign for human rights activists, with millions of calls and emails from concerned individuals, as well as Europe-wide protests. XXX Members of the European Parliament adopted […]

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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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February 22, 2018 · Blogs | Campaigns | Information democracy | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

In the making: The largest internet filter Europe has ever seen

European policy makers are working on the largest internet filter we’ve ever seen.

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April 20, 2011

Dutch government announces measures against downloading

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederlande: Regierung kündigt Maßnahmen gegen illegale Downloads an | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.8_Niederlande_Regierung_Ma%C3%9Fnahmen_gegen_illegale_Downloads] On 11 April 2011, the Dutch government published its copyright policy plans for the coming years. The plans include restricting the currently existing private copying exception and the possibility to block access to websites facilitating copyright infringement. EDRi-member […]

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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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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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May 16, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

Looking back at EDRi’s victories in 2017

Our key successes of 2017 were the vote in a European Parliament Committee rejecting upload filters in the Copyright Directive proposal, EU Parliament's plenary vote supporting ePrivacy, and the Council of Europe welcoming of EDRi recommendations on the issue of cross-border access to data by law enforcement.

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May 31, 2017 · Blogs

EU Commission on FOI request: Incompetence or ill-intent?

In April 2017, we got a little curious about industry lobbying in Brussels surrounding the copyright reform. We therefore filed a freedom of information (FOI) request to access the correspondence that the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) of the European Commission received by rightsholders shortly before the reform proposal was finalised […]

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September 20, 2016 · Blogs

EU is now giving Google new monopolies

Originally published on The European Sting There is a lot of noise in the press and among lobbyists about an alleged hostility of the EU towards big American internet companies. Reality is more nuanced and more surprising – the policies appear to be hell-bent on giving Google new monopolies, to the detriment of European citizens […]

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February 26, 2019 · Press releases | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Press Release: SaveYourInternet.eu – Citizens set to prevent upload filters in the EU

On 26 February 2019, European Digital Rights and partner organisations from across Europe are re-launching the campaign SaveYourInternet.eu – with new items in the “toolbox”. Today, we add to our website the action prepared by our Austrian member epicenter.works: Pledge2019.eu. The campaign, managed by the EDRi network, has become the main platform for concerned citizens […]

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