Results for copyright

April 9, 2008

ENDitorial: CoE – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The 9th meeting of the Council of Europe (CoE) group of specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society (MC-S-IS) was held in Strasbourg from 31 March to 2 April 2008. At the same time, on 1-2 April, another division of the CoE was holding in a […]

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August 27, 2008

Italian justice wants to "seize" a foreign website

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In an investigation started by the Bergamo Prosecutors, an Order of the Justice for preliminary investigation of the Court of Bergamo was issued on 1 August 2008, asking for the “seizure” of the PirateBay website, hosted outside Italy, for displaying a collection of links to allegedly illegal […]

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October 8, 2008

An update on the Italian PirateBay case

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Bergamo Criminal Court overrules the seizure, but establishes a case law that is a violation of civil rights. On 16 August 2008 ALCEI reported to the Italian Data Protection Authority the violations of law contained in the pre-emptive seizure order issued by the Justice for preliminary […]

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October 22, 2008

ENDitorial: Seizures and other abuses – from bad to worse

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Two recent episodes (that are not “isolated cases”) show, again, how distortions in Italian laws and in their application can lead to all sorts of abuses – as discussed before. The problem is that these abuses are not only continuing, but getting worse. One is explained in […]

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December 17, 2008

Spanish collective society fined for making clandestine wedding video

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) has been fined for having placed a private detective in a restaurant in Seville, in 2005, to film a wedding in order to prove that the restaurant was using music for which it had paid no royalties. The […]

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June 19, 2003

OSCE statement about freedom of the media on-line

At the end of a two-day conference in Amsterdam on internet-related perils to freedom of expression, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve has issued a call to take up a strong position towards free flow of information on the internet. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the […]

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August 12, 2003

Campaign against proposed IP Enforcement Directive

An international coalition of 39 civil liberties groups and consumer rights organisations sent a letter to the European Union on 11 August urging rejection of the proposed intellectual property enforcement directive. The coalition warns that the proposed Directive is over-broad and threatens civil liberties, innovation, and competition policy. The proposal requires EU Member States to […]

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January 14, 2009

France: ARMT was useless

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At the end of December 2008 it was publicly presented the first yearly report of the French Authority for Regulations of the DRMs (Autorité de régulation des mesures techniques – ARMT) that should have ensured the interoperability of the DRM systems and allow the private copies. This […]

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February 11, 2009

Pirate Bay in legal battle with IFPI

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The war between IFPI and the Pirate Bay continues with a new banning of the site in Denmark ruled by a Danish court at the beginning of February this year. Exactly a year ago, in February 2008, following an IFPI action, a Danish court ruled that Tele2 […]

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April 8, 2009

European Parliament asks for respect of human rights on the Internet

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäisches Parlament fordert Respekt für die Menschenrechte im Internet | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1357] This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Европскиот парламент бара да се… | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1422/56/lang,mk/] On 26 March 2009, the European Parliament voted with a large majority to support Lambrinidis report concerning the protection of individual liberties on […]

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April 22, 2009

Creative Commons licences launched in Czech Republic

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Creative Commons in der Tschechischen Republik eingeführt | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1378] Macedonian: [Лиценците Криејтив комонс во Република Чешка | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1432/4/lang,mk/] The localized version of the Creative Commons licences was launched on 15 April in the Czech Republic, which has become the fifty-second jurisdiction worldwide to offer localized Creative Commons licenses. […]

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April 22, 2009

The Pirate Bay founders considered guilty by the first Swedish court

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Die Gründer von Pirate Bay vom Ersten Schwedischen Gerichtshof für schuldig befunden | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1371] Macedonian: [Шведскиот суд ги прогласи за виновни… | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1428/4/lang,mk/] The verdict of the Swedish court in The Pirate Bay (TBP) trial was given on 17 April 2009 with the four defendants, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid […]

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