Results for copyright

June 3, 2015 · Blogs

Danish Ministry of Culture: Danes should be regulated by Google

In 2012, ACTA was rejected by the European Parliament with an overwhelming majority, not least due to its proposals to allow private law enforcement by foreign internet companies. Despite this, on 8 May 2015, the Danish Ministry of Culture presented a “Code of Conduct” agreement with a number of internet intermediaries, which in many respects […]

June 29, 2016 · Blogs

Advocate General: E-lending must be included to the lending rights

In 2015, the Dutch Association of Public Libraries (VOB) started a legal procedure against Stichting Leenrecht, the organisation distributing the remuneration to authors that libraries pay for lending books in the Netherlands. The purpose of the case was to clarify if the European Union’s Rental and Lending Rights Directive covers the lending of electronic books. […]

December 20, 2016 · Press mentions

EDRi’s Press Review 2016

During the past year, our work to defend citizens’ rights and freedoms online has gained an impressive visibility – we counted nearly four hundred mentions! – in European and international media. Below, you can find our press review 2016.

May 28, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Freedom of expression online

EU Member States agree on monitoring & filtering of internet uploads

On 25 May, the European Council agreed to a negotiating position on the draft copyright directive. This  will allow the presidency of the Council to start negotiations with the European Parliament on mass monitoring and filtering of internet uploads and a chaotic new “ancillary copyright” measure that will make it harder to link to and quote news sources.

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June 4, 2003

Finnish protest against EU copyright plans

EDRI-member Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI) submitted a statement on a proposed EU Directive to harmonise the enforcement of intellectual property laws, including copyrights and patents, across member states. According to EFFI, the new directive is based too unilaterally on studies made for the media industry. For example, the proposal compares piracy to drug trade and […]

July 28, 2010

Germany: Filtering by keywords is not an obligation for a hosting company

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutschland: Hosting-Unternehmen müssen keine Wortfilter einsetzen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2090] The Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf decided on 21 July 2010 that RapidShare, as a hosting company, is not guilty of copyright infringement. RapidShare has faced several cases in court for copyright infringement and in December 2009 lost a case […]

February 14, 2007

Belgium court backs decision against Google

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In the case brought by Copiepresse, a trade group representing 17 Belgium newspapers, against Google for publishing links to newspaper articles without permission, the Brussels Tribunal upheld its previous decision and ruled that Google violated the copyright law. Google was ordered to remove Belgian newspaper content from […]

February 15, 2006

DVD circumvention device released in Ireland

SlySoft, a company registered in Ireland, has released software that allows users to convert their own DVDs to formats they can watch on mobile phones, Playstation Portables, video iPods and similar devices. This is one of the first examples seen in the wild of a “circumvention device” which bypasses the copy restriction technology contained in […]

March 12, 2008

EDRi's Statement at WIPO SCCR

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 11 March 2008 Ville Oksanen, representing EDRi at the WIPO SCCR, made the following statement on the agenda item related to limitations & exceptions: “European Digital Rights, EDRI, represents 28 privacy and civil rights organisations from 17 different countries in Europe. As this is the first […]

July 4, 2013 · Blogs

The ACTA Archive

Today is the first anniversary of the rejection of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in the European Parliament – after months of debates, a large majority of Parliamentarians voted against the adoption. This is the perfect time to gather all documents that have ever been produced by EDRi on this Agreement, to recall who were […]

April 12, 2007

France establishes the DRM-regulation authority

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The independent authority foreseen by the new French law on copyright (DADVSI) was created in the last days of the Villepin government. This Authority for Regulations of the DRMs (Autorité de régulation des mesures techniques – ARMT) should ensure the interoperability of the DRM systems and allow […]