Results for copyright

October 24, 2012

Google threatens to exclude the French online press from its search

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google droht der französischen Online-Presse mit Ausschluss aus der Google-Suche | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.20_Google_droht_der_franzoesischen_Online-Presse_mit_Ausschluss_aus_der_Google-Suche?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121024] GESTE, a French group of online editors, has been trying for a few years now to get part of Google’s revenues generated by its news service with indexed titles. “Google has developed on our content” said […]

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November 21, 2012

EDRi comments on the collective rights management draft directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi zur geplanten Richtlinie über kollektive Rechteverwertung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_EDRi_zur_geplanten_Richtlinie_ueber_kollektive_Rechteverwertung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] On 11 July 2012, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive on collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online uses in the internal market. EDRi warmly welcomes […]

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December 5, 2012

European domain names under siege

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Domainnamen unter Druck | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_Europaeische_Domainnamen_unter_Druck?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] On 26 November 2012, 132 or 133 domain names were seized by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE) in collaboration with the Europol and national law enforcement authorities. The seized domains were supposed to have illegally sold counterfeit […]

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April 10, 2013 · Blogs

DMCA take down requests to DMCA take down requests

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google soll Löschanträge löschen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Google_soll_Loeschantraege_loeschen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] Google has recently refused to comply with the take down requests sent by several copyright holders asking for the taking down of their own take down requests (under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act – DMCA) which have now reached almost 20 […]

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April 10, 2013 · Blogs

Swedish police to increase its fight against file-sharing

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Schwedische Polizei will härter gegen File-Sharer vorgehen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.7_Schwedische_Polizei_will_haerter_gegen_File-Sharer_vorgehen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130410] In a recent report, Sweden’s National Police Board proposes measures meant to increase its performance in fighting copyright infringements, as a result of meetings with entertainment company rightsholders. The changes proposed include the creation of a team focused on […]

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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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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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December 18, 2013 · Blogs

Italian telecom authority gets the power to block websites

AGCOM, Italy’s Electronic Communications Authority decided on 12 December 2013 to take in its hands the powers to order the removal of any online content for alleged copyright violation, with the purpose to speed up the procedure. The authority had drafted new regulations allowing it to order a domain seizure or ISP blockade of any […]

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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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October 8, 2014 · Blogs

Ex parte domain name seizures in Denmark

At the beginning of October, news media in Denmark reported about the seizure of the domain name raybansolbrillerudsalg.dk, which allegedly had been used for selling counterfeit products to Danish consumers. The Danish e-commerce Foundation, which administers the official Danish accreditation for safe online trading (the e-mark), has compiled a list of 1141 domains accused of […]

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October 8, 2014 · Blogs

Italia: procedimento amministrativo incostituzionale sul diritto d’autore?

Read this article in English here: https://edri.org/italy-admin-copyright-enforcement-unconstitutional Il 26 Settembre 2014, un tribunale amministrativo italiano ha rinviato la questione relativa alla costituzionalità del procedimento amministrativo previsto dal nuovo Regolamento sulla violazione del diritto d’autore online alla Corte Costituzionale Italiana. Il Regolamento sulla Violazione del Diritto d’Autore Online é entrato in vigore il 1° aprile 2014. Questo […]

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January 28, 2015 · Blogs

Did AGCOM censor an article about AGCOM censorship?

At the end of 2014, EDRi wrote an article on the Italian telecoms regulator AGCOM’s censorship procedures for the newsletter of the EU Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Infringements. After agreeing to publish the article, the Observatory changed its mind – it has told us that it did so after it “felt obliged to […]

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