Results for copyright

July 19, 2006

Dutch court rules for protecting file-sharers' identities

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In a verdict on 13 July 2006, the court of appeals in Amsterdam upheld a lower court ruling about the question whether Internet service providers (ISPs) have an obligation to hand over a user’s identity when accused of illegal uploading by copyright holders. The lower court had […]

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January 31, 2007

Italian Supreme court decision on file-sharing case – nothing new

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) There has been wide reporting, in Italy and internationally, that an Italian court “ruled not-for-profit file-sharing legal”. That statement is grossly overstated, if not completely wrong. The “dismal” state of Italian copyright legislation remains, unfortunately, unchanged. One might argue that the media hype, per se, is an […]

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January 31, 2007

ENDitorial : Constitution by criminalisation

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Instead of scouts cookies, evildoers sell copied Britney Spears CDs and counterfeit medicines manufactured using child labour, and that must be stopped, in particular since legit Britney Spears CDs cause enough harm as it is and everyone is tired of Viagra spam. The Criminalisation Directive, also known […]

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July 18, 2007

Media and telecom companies oppose CISAC proposal

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 10 July 2007, the EU Commission received a letter from a large group including some of Europe’s biggest media groups and telecom companies urging for the rejection of an offer made by EU national royalty-collecting societies to settle an anti-trust case. The Commission started examining a […]

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October 24, 2007

Some Internet and media companies push for principles on user content

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A set of principles desired to create an online environment for the development of User Generated Content (UGC) services and the protection of copyright owner rights has recently been set out by several media and Internet companies such as CBS, Dailymotion, Fox Entertainment Group, MySpace, NBC, Veoh […]

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December 5, 2007

Progress in the European Digital Libraries EU Initiative

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A meeting on 27 November 2007 of a high level group on digital libraries and officials of the European Commission formalised the agreement between European libraries, archives and museums in a common effort to create a European digital library that would give access to a common European […]

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December 19, 2007

Filtering the Internet – new request of music and film industry

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Concern has been raised by a memo sent to European policy-makers by the International Federation of Phonographic Industries asking European ISPs to filter the content transferred by their networks. The music and film industry continues to pressure from the EU regulators for control on the Internet, through […]

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December 19, 2007 · Blogs

ENDitorial : "No Swiss DMCA" Referendum campaign

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Like everywhere else, DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) systems which impose technical restrictions on what end users can do with texts and multimedia content are highly unpopular also in Switzerland. At the same time, the representatives of the entertainment industry claim that this technology is necessary, and politicians […]

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January 16, 2008

European Commission closes enquiry on Apple

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission (EC) has closed the enquiry against Apple for charging more UK users than other EU users for downloads of its iTunes music, following the company announcement on 9 January 2008 that it will reduce download prices for UK within 6 months to align them […]

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April 23, 2008

Setback for IFPI in its case against PirateBay

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) sued the PirateBay at the end of March 2008 demanding 1.6 million euro in damages as compensation for 24 albums, new elements have occurred forcing IFPI to limit its demands. The Stockholm District Court indicted the four PirateBay […]

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May 7, 2008

IFPI continues to pressure ISPs to act as Internet police

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Despite the criticism and negative reaction of the ISPs in several countries, IFPI continues to pressures them in turning themselves into Internet police. Following Denmark, Norway and Ireland, it is the turn of the Swedish ISPs to be the target of the association. What IFPI asks is […]

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July 30, 2008

France pushes for ISPs' involvement in fighting illegal file sharing

Christine Albanel, the French Minister of Culture and Communication, has gathered her European homologues for an informal meeting in Versailles on 21 and 22 July 2008 in an attempt to push the French Hadopi law model to be embraced by Europe. Some of the main issues approached during the meeting were piracy, telecommunications reform, the […]

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