Results for copyright

September 13, 2006

Opposition to draft WIPO Broadcast Treaty

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Several representatives of the IT, telecommunications, consumer electronics industry, public interest organizations and performers joined in a common statement issued on 5 September to oppose the WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasts and Broadcasting Organizations. The treaty creates a new class of IP rights meant to […]

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October 21, 2015 · Blogs

FCForum will bring together free culture & digital rights activists

On 30-31 October, the Free Culture Forum (FCForum), an international event, will take place in Barcelona. It will be hosted by the Spanish EDRi observer Xnet, and aims to build and coordinate a common action agenda for issues surrounding free/libre culture and access to knowledge, defence of a free/libre and neutral Internet, democracy and fight against […]

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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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October 19, 2016 · Blogs

Shadow regulations – unfair and undemocratic

Shadow Regulations are voluntary agreements between companies (sometimes described as codes, principles, standards, or guidelines) to regulate your use of the internet, often without your knowledge.

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February 1, 2012 · Blogs

ACTA – Frequently Asked Questions

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frequently Asked Questions zu ACTA | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.2_Frequently_Asked_Questions_zu_ACTA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120201] French:[ FAQ sur l’ACTA par Joe McNamee, coordinateur à l’EDRI | http://politiquedunetz.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/faq-sur-lacta-par-joe-mcnamee-fondateur-de-ledri/] Romanian:[ Întrebări frecvente despre ACTA | http://apti.ro/intrebari-frecvente-ACTA] 1. Does ACTA require countries to impose “three strikes” rules? Countries that ratify ACTA are required to encourage “cooperation” between private companies […]

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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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January 10, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

2017: From EDRi to the world

2017 was a busy year for digital rights defenders. To advance our mission to defend and promote your rights to privacy, data protection, and freedom of information, expression and opinion, we worked hard to engage with European level decision-making, but also did our best to get out of the Brussels “EU bubble” and enhance digital […]

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February 7, 2012

ACTA Survival Guide for Website Owners

In order to counter the spreading misinformation, we are providing a how-to with short explanations regarding different practical problems related to ACTA. This guide looks at the risks that ACTA creates for websites, particularly e-commerce sites. To stay online, a website owner just needs to make sure that their site contains nothing which might cause […]

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November 2, 2016 · Blogs

Follow the money – following some positive paths

In the EDRi-gram on 19 October, we reported on the draft “guiding principles” for a “follow the money approach” for online intellectual property right (IPR) infringements. The “guiding principles” were finalised in a meeting on 22 October. Having been very critical of the draft – and still fundamentally opposed in principle to privatised law enforcement […]

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February 8, 2012

10 European Commission myths about ACTA

1. This is only about large-scale infringements a. Criminal sanctions There is no minimum-level of infringement that could be criminalised by ACTA. It requires parties to, at least, criminalise infringements which are for direct economic advantage, direct commercial advantage, indirect economic advantage, indirect commercial advantage or “aiding and abetting” such an offence. In the absence […]

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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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February 13, 2013 · Blogs

Dutch government maintains private copying-exception for downloading

The Dutch government announced that it wouldn’t prohibit the unauthorised downloading of copyrighted material. It did so on 4 February 2013 in a letter to the Parliament, putting an end to a heated debate that lasted for years. As a result, the Netherlands remains one of the few countries in Europe where downloading without permission […]

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