Results for copyright

February 15, 2012

EC "Roadmap" for review of the IPR Enforcement Directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Roadmap der Kommission für die Überprüfung der Urheberrechtsrichtlinie | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.3_Roadmap_der_Kommission_fuer_die_Ueberpruefung_der_Urheberrechtsrichtlinie?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120221] The European Commission recently published a “roadmap” to the review of the Directive on Intellectual Property Enforcement (2004/48/EC). As it is becoming traditional, the Commission neatly mixes up all kinds of infringements, from dangerous fake medicines to 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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February 15, 2012

Two Strikes in Germany?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Two Strikes für Deutschland? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.3_Two_Strikes_fuer_Deutschland?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120221] On 3 February 2012, the German Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) published a comparative study on graduated response systems in Europe which have been established to fight against copyright infringements on the Internet. The study looked at the situation in France, […]

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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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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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November 5, 2014 · Blogs

The “Google tax” that is not a Google tax

The new European Commissioner with responsibility for “digital agenda” issues, Guenther Oettinger caused a stir in the media recently when he raised the possibility of introducing “ancillary copyright” payments, requiring search engine providers to pay for displaying copyrighted materials on their sites, on the EU level. The press was all of a sudden full of […]

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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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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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November 8, 2006

Discussion during IGF against Internet content control

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The first global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was organized by United Nations in Athens between 30 October and 2 November 2006. The forum has shown a strong and large opposition to Internet blocking and filtering, putting under pressure repressive governments such as China. The three sessions devoted […]

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February 27, 2013 · Blogs

The British Phonographic Industry pushes ISPs to block more sites

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) continues its offensive against torrent websites that are accused of copyright infringement. Based on the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act from 1998, the group obtained in 2012, from the High Court, the blocking of Newzbin2 and The Pirate Bay through several big UK ISPs and in October 2012, asked again […]

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February 29, 2012

Private copy levies draft law in Portugal

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Portugal: Abgaben auf Privatkopien geplant | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.4_Portugal_Abgaben_auf_Privatkopien_geplant?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120229] A draft law proposed by the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) in December 2011 is intended to set broad, exponentially increasing levies on digital storage devices with the support of collective rights entities like the portugese authors guild (SPA) and a collective […]

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March 12, 2012 · Blogs

World Day Against Cyber-Censorship

Lire cet article en français Support of a single Internet without restrictions and accessible to all is the message of this year’s world day against cyber-censorship. For the fourth time, Reporters without Borders (RSF) has published a report listing the worst violators of online free speech worldwide. In the following, we want to focus on […]

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