Results for copyright

March 13, 2013 · Blogs

Hadopi wants to turn to privatised enforcement measures

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Hadopi für eine Privatisierung der Rechtsdurchsetzung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.5_Hadopi_fuer_eine_Privatisierung_der_Rechtsdurchsetzung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130319] The French anti-piracy authority Hadopi has produced a new report on how to fight illegal streaming and downloading of copyrighted material. This is probably an attempt of ensuring its future as, since its installation in 2009, the authority has not […]

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March 14, 2012

ACTA debates in Europe

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europa diskutiert ACTA | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.5_Europa_diskutiert_ACTA] Several debates on ACTA are going around in several European countries these days. We would present in this article two events where EDRi participated in the past week in Brussles and Helsinki. A Policy Forum on ACTA was organized in Brussels on 6 […]

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May 20, 2009

French courts give clear decisions for hosted content

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Französisches Gericht trifft klare Entscheidungen bei gehosteten Inhalten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1403] Several decisions taken by the French courts lately recognize the principle of non-liablilty of some web 2.0 sites for the content hosted. The new interpretation is putting things back on track, after some earlier strange decisions of the […]

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March 27, 2013 · Blogs

A few days left to answer the IPRED consultation

On 30 March 2013, the consultation on the intellectual property rights enforcement directive (IPRED) will be over. This means that you have three more days to let the European Commission know your thoughts on the current enforcement of copyright in the European Union. The European Commission now wants to evaluate the efficiency of the current […]

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March 27, 2013 · Blogs

Civil society wants no intellectual property provisions in TAFTA

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Zivilgesellschaft gegen Urheberrechtsbestimmungen in TAFTA | /EDRigram_11.6_Zivilgesellschaft_gegen_Urheberrechtsbestimmungen_in_TAFTA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130327] More than 45 civil society organisations from US and Europe, including EDRi, ask that the proposed EU-US trade agreement called Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) should exclude any provisions related to patents, copyright, trademarks, or other forms of so-called “intellectual property”. […]

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January 25, 2017 · Blogs

From EDRi to the World in 2016

Now more than ever civil society needs to stand together to fight against challenges to the protection of personal data, to our privacy, freedom of expression and access to knowledge. In the discussions about defending our online rights and freedoms, all voices must be heard. In 2016, EDRi increased its international activity to help spread […]

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April 11, 2012

Spanish Sinde law brings about the first website take down requests

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Erste Sperrverfügungen nach dem spanischen Sinde-Gesetz stehen an | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.7_Erste_Sperrverfuegungen_nach_dem_spanischen_Sinde-Gesetz_stehen_an?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120411] The Spanish Minister of Culture has stated that in only one month since the Spanish anti-piracy law (known as Sinde Law) has been passed, the Commission for Intellectual Property (CIP) has received more than 300 complaints against websites […]

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December 5, 2005

Launch of Digital Rights Ireland

Digital Rights Ireland will formally launch at a press conference in the Conference Room in Pearse Street Library, at 11-am on Tuesday 6 December. The group has been formed to defend civil, human and legal rights in a digital age. Digital Rights Ireland will be discussing its mission, and current developments in relation to Data […]

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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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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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April 24, 2013 · Blogs

A Monster from Rome – huge crackdown action on "file-sharing"

In an action that has become known as “A Monster from Rome”, the Italian Public Prosecutor of Rome ordered on 15 April 2013 the blocking of 27 file-sharing related sites at the request of Sunshine Pictures, the Italian distributor of the French animated film “A Monster in Paris”. The list which has been made public […]

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February 24, 2016 · Blogs

EU consultation on “Intellectual Property Rights” enforcement – Have your say!

Injunctions, internet blocking, blackmailing of individuals accused of unauthorised peer-to-peer filesharing – the so-called IPRED Directive has been very controversial. Now, the European Commission has launched a consultation on the Directive (whose full name is Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRED) in the online environment). The consultation is of great importance […]

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