Results for copyright

October 6, 2010

Private data exposed on UK Law firm website

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Webseite einer britischen Anwaltskanzlei enthüllt private Daten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2248] On 24 September 2010, the website of the UK Law Firm ACS:Law suffered a massive breach of security apparently under a Denial of Service attack initiated by a group entitled Anonymous within the Operation Payback, which led to the […]

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April 26, 2006

German music industry wants new powers

Representatives of the German music industry asked for new powers in order to obtain, without court order, personal information about alleged file-sharers from Internet Service Providers. In a recent event held in Munich by the Institute of Copyright and Media Law, representatives of the rights holder associations claimed that this change would improve the fight […]

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November 3, 2010

ECJ decides private copying levies are not allowed for business use

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [‘Abgabe für Privatkopien’ laut EuGH auf gewerbliche Nutzer nicht anwendbar | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2324] On 21 October 2010, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that private copying levies on blank CDs, MP3 players and other digital media are allowed under EU copyright law only when charged on goods sold […]

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November 3, 2010

Free Culture 2010 in Barcelona

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [‘Free Culture’ 2010 in Barcelona | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2327] Barcelona was the capital of free culture at the end of October 2010, with two events – Oxcars and then the Free Culture Forum (FCF) – organized by Exgae for awarding and promoting free culture concepts across Europe and beyond. The […]

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November 2, 2011

Finnish ISP ordered to block The Pirate Bay

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Finnischer Provider soll “The Pirate Bay” sperren | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.21_Finnischer_Provider_soll_The_Pirate_Bay_sperren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111110] Hot on the heels of a Belgian court decision obligating two ISPs to block the Pirate Bay, the Helsinki District Court ruled on 26 October 2011 that the large Finnish ISP Elisa must block access to The Pirate Bay […]

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July 29, 2015 · Blogs

David Wessel: “I get between three and five take down notices daily”

This is a translation in the 50th edition of a series hosted at rechtaufremix.org, entitled “Remixers”. The series is about people and their experiences and attitudes to remixing and the remix culture. The 50th edition went back to talk to the very first interviewee: David Wessel aka Mashup-Germany. David Wessel was born in Cologne, but […]

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January 27, 2010

EDRi response to EC's consultation on creative content online

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRis Antwort auf die Beratung der Europäischen Kommission über urheberrechtlich geschützte Onlineinhalte | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1673] EDRi submitted a response to the European Commission’s (EC) consultation on “content online”. The consultation aimed to gather input on how to best support, at long last, the development of an effective, EU-wide, market […]

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January 27, 2010

New round of negotiations on ACTA: EU position

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neue ACTA-Verhandlungsrunde: Die Haltung der EU | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1674] A new round of negotiations on ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is taking place from 26 to 29 January 2010 in Guadalajara, Mexico. As announced by some countries participating in the event the main topics of the new negotiations are: civil […]

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July 4, 2007

ENDitorial : The End of Multilateral Broadcast Treaty

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The summer special session of United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related rights (SCCR) ended with an outcome that effectively killed the proposed treaty for protection of broadcast organisations (Broadcast Treaty). The committee called off the Diplomatic Conference that was supposed […]

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February 11, 2009

Irish ISP settled to introduce 3 strikes

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The case introduced by IRMA (Irish Recorded Music Industry) against Irish ISP Eircom through which Eircom was required to block P2P filesharing by applying a filtering system to its network, was settled outside the court room. The music industry decided to drop the action provided Eircom introduces […]

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June 2, 2004

Belgian consumer group will appeal in copy protection case

On 27 May 2004 the Belgian court of Brussels rejected the complaint made by the consumer organisation Test-Achats (Test Aankoop) against four record companies in Belgium (EMI, Sony, Universal and BMG) about their use of technical copy protection measures. Test-Achats collected 200 complaints from individual members and demanded that the companies would stop using technical […]

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July 18, 2007

Allofmp3.com shut down, but more Russian music websites opened

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The famous website allofmp3.com was quietly shut down at the beginning of July 2007, but the Russian websites that are selling music online at much cheaper prices are on the rise, one of them winning also a lawsuit against Visa. Russian authorities pressured the Moscow-based company MediaServices, […]

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