Results for copyright

February 28, 2007

Russian court dismisses piracy case as "trivial"

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A Russian court has dismissed a penal case against a Russian teacher, Alexander Ponosov, that bought computers for its school with unauthorized Microsoft programs. The case become well-known when the former Soviet president Gorbachev made a public appeal to Bill Gates, asking to intervene in this case. […]

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February 28, 2007 · Blogs

DRM debate continues in Europe

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 19 February 2007, the UK Government rejected an online petition initiated by blogger Neil Holmes and signed by 1,414 people asking for the interdiction of DRM (Digital Rights Management), arguing DRM systems deprive the consumers of their freedom of choice between competing products for CDs or […]

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April 12, 2007

Bulgarian Police ordered ISPs to block US-based torrent tracker

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 16 March 2007 the Bulgarian special forces for combating organized crime ordered the major ISPs to filter the access to and from the web site arenabg.com, a torrent tracker hosted in the US, claiming that it was the source of copyright infringement activities. Only three big […]

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May 9, 2007

RapidShare sues German rights holder association

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Rapidshare AG sued the German society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights (GEMA) in order to clarify the legal situation regarding free file hosting in Germany. The counter-attack from Rapidshare, a well-known free file hosting provider based in Switzerland, comes after the suit initiated in Germany […]

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June 20, 2007

ENDitorial: The 2001 CoE Cybercrime Conv. more dangerous than ever

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Council of Europe (CoE) has definitely highly prioritised the broad ratification, all over the world, of its Convention on Cybercrime, opened to signatures since November 2001 and entered into force on 1 July 2004. As part of its efforts to achieve this goal, a conference on […]

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July 18, 2007

Belgium ISP ordered by the court to filter illicit content

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In an unprecedented decision, the Court of First Instance in Bruxelles has order Scarlet, a Belgium ISP, to implement technical measures in order to prohibit its users to illegally download music files. The decision comes after a complaint initiated in 2004 by Sabam (Belgian Society of Authors, […]

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July 18, 2007

Sweden wants tougher laws against file sharers

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Swedish Justice Department initiated the public debate process on a new legislation that will allow the copyright holders to obtain the identity of people that share illegal content over in the Internet. The draft says that the copyright holders can go to court asking the ISPs […]

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September 12, 2007

Is the IP address still a personal data in France?

Although the answer to this question may be obvious not only in France, but also in Europe, two decisions from the Paris Appeal Court may well change this established understanding. The decisions, respectively published on 27 April and 15 May 2007, concern individuals to the SCPP (a French collecting society of recording companies), in two […]

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September 26, 2007

ENDitorial: "Frattinising" isn't the only threat

So there’s a new verb in Europe: to frattinise. It first appeared in German, soon after in French and in Italian, it may creep around in other languages. Or it may be replaced by another one, next time someone else jumps on the same hideous bandwagon. On 10 September 2007 (quite deliberately, one day before […]

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October 10, 2007

European Parliament resolution on a European digital library

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Parliament (EP) adopted on 27 September 2007 a resolution that endorses the 2005 European Commission’s Communication i2010: Digital Libraries supporting the digital libraries initiative that aims at making European information resources easier and more interesting to use in an online environment The Commission’s “2010 Digital […]

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December 5, 2007

European scientific information – too late on open access?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The recent meeting on 22-24 November 2007 of the Competitiveness European Council meeting adopted its conclusions on scientific information in the digital age: access, dissemination and preservation. The conclusions underline the importance of scientific output resulting from publicly funded research being available on the Internet at no […]

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March 26, 2008

The Swedish Government decided to take measures against filesharers

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Although initially the Swedish Government promised not to hunt down young people for filesharing, on 14 March 2008, it made a proposal that will allow courts to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to give up IP addresses used for illegal filesharing to the owners of the fileshared […]

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