Results for copyright

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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November 3, 2010

Is YouTube back online in Turkey?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ist YouTube in der Türkei wieder online? | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2326] After almost three years of blocking, Turkey has finally lifted its ban on YouTube. Google’s site was blocked in 2007 for videos considered insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the country’s founder. In 2007, Turkey’s parliament adopted a law allowing […]

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November 3, 2010

Belgian Court upholds Creative Commons licence

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgischer Gerichtshof bestätigt Creative Commons Lizenz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2329] A local court in Nivelles, Belgium upheld in a case decided 26 October 2010 on the validity of the Creative Commons licence in a copyright infringement case when a music group published its music under CC BY-NC-SA. In this case […]

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September 26, 2012

European Parliament steps back from promoting ISP liability

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäisches Parlament distanziert sich von der Providerhaftung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_Europaeisches_Parlament_distanziert_sich_von_der_Providerhaftung?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20121008] On 11 September 2012, the European Parliament voted on an own-initiative report of Mr Jean-Marie Cavada (EPP, France) on the online distribution of audiovisual works. As we reported in the EDRi-gram after the vote in the leading Committee, the […]

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September 11, 2013 · Blogs

German newspapers sued for pointing out an alleged illegal site

At the end of August 2013, a group of German publishers sued newspapers Der Tagesspiegel and Die Zeit, accusing them of assisting copyright infringement for having printed an interview with the operator of an alleged unauthorized ebook site, giving the site name as well – TorBoox, which claims to be the largest ebook piracy site […]

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September 26, 2012

EU Parliament approves directive on orphan works

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Parlament verabschiedet Richtlinie über verwaiste Werke | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_EU-Parlament_verabschiedet_Richtlinie_ueber_verwaiste_Werke?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20121008] On 13 September 2012, the EU Parliament approved the draft legislation on orphan works proposed in 2011, completed by the EU Parliament and Council compromise in June 2012. The European Commission issued an Impact Assessment in 2011 accompanying the proposal […]

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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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May 24, 2006

Big Brother Awards Italy 2006

From 19 May to 20 May Florence has hosted the E-Privacy 2006 conference, organized as usual – by the Winston Smith Project with the help of several volunteers. This edition saw a much larger participation than 2005: the participants could hardly fit the hall of Palazzo Vecchio, and several people had to stand for the […]

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January 15, 2004

Modified Sony PlayStations allowed in Italy

In an important victory for Italian consumer rights, an Italian court has rejected the seizure of Sony PlayStation game consoles that use modified chips to permit unauthorised uses of the game systems. The case is one of the first to be brought in Italy under the new European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD). In December 2003, […]

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September 6, 2017 · Blogs

Private copy levy: Just pay up! Then we’ll see…

European businesses and associations are still in reality forced to pay “compensation” to copyright collecting societies for private copies, despite repeated rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) exempting them from having to do so.

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May 21, 2014 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Google Spain vs AEPD – the cup is half full

Judgements from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) are typically meant to settle debates about European law, not to stir them up. Last week’s judgement on Google versus Spain falls short of this goal. It is definitely groundbreaking and parts of its analysis have a beautiful logic. That Google is a data […]

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November 2, 2011

The European Commission encourages the digitisation of culture

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Kommission fördert Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.21_Europaeische_Kommission_foerdert_Digitalisierung_des_Kulturerbes?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111110] An EC Recommendation issued on 28 October 2011 is urging Member States to intensify their efforts and involve the private sector to help in digitising cultural material in order to improve the exposure and stocks of Europe’s digital library Europeana. […]

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