Results for copyright

April 8, 2015 · Blogs

UPC Ireland trapped by its own ToS, has to introduce “three strikes”

UPC Ireland, a largest Irish telecoms provider, has been obliged, by injunction, to introduce a “three strikes” disconnection strategy by the Irish High Court. UPC’s own terms of service are at least partly at fault. In 2009, the former Irish monopoly telecoms provider, Eircom, entered into a voluntary arrangement with the music industry in order […]

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June 8, 2015 · Blogs | Publications

Booklet: TTIP and Digital Rights

Today, European Digital Rights (EDRi) is publishing its latest booklet, “TTIP and digital rights”: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a trade agreement that is currently being negotiated between the United States and the European Union. TTIP has already raised many concerns among civil society, trade unions, consumer groups, some businesses, and European […]

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October 21, 2015 · Blogs

FNF15: Privacy advocates’ summit in Brussels

Civil society has a big role in keeping governments on the right track. This is not only true at the national level, but also important with regard to policy-making in the EU. To enable civil society to do so, the annual Freedom not Fear (FNF) conference on 16-19 October in Brussels gathered participants from over […]

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April 1, 2016 · Blogs

EU decides that Google is not a search engine

The European Union has adopted legislation which establishes that Google is not a search engine. After two years of legislative process and negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, the final text would also mean that Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckgo are also not search engines. As part of the broad […]

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September 20, 2016 · Blogs

Member in the Spotlight: Electronic Frontier Finland

Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi), is a Finnish digital rights organisation. It focuses on all kinds of digital rights issues including, but not limited to freedom of speech, privacy, cyber intelligence, information security, copyright, open data, and digital public services.

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December 19, 2016 · Blogs

EDRi Awards 2016

For the first time and with great solemnity, EDRi presents the first ever third edition of its annual awards.

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April 26, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

LEAK: British EU Commissioner: ID check & prior approval for online posts

In a letter to Commissioner Mariya Gabriel obtained by EDRi1, the British European Commissioner, Sir Julian King, makes it clear that, not alone does he no longer find it acceptable that people should be able to communicate online without prior approval, he also objects to people communicating without being identified. Commissioner King is pushing the […]

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June 11, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

EU Censorship Machine: Legislation as propaganda?

The provisions are so controversial that supporters in the European Parliament have resorted to including purely political – and legally meaningless – "safeguards" in the text as a way of getting the proposal adopted.

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July 11, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Disinformation and electoral interference | Freedom of expression online | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation

E-Commerce review: Technology is the solution. What is the problem?

This is the second article in our series on Europe’s future rules for intermediary liability and content moderation. You can read the introduction here. When it comes to tackling illegal and “harmful” content online, there’s a major trend in policy-making: Big tech seems to be both the cause of and the solution to all problems.

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November 16, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Surveillance and data retention

Advocate General recklessly calls for watering down privacy protections

On 27 October, the Advocate General (AG) Szpunar of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) released his opinion on the French ‘HADOPI’ system against online copyright infringements. The case has potentially important implications for the ongoing political debate on data retention by private companies for access by law enforcement authorities.

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September 13, 2022

Conference: Filtered Futures

Fundamental Rights Constraints of Upload Filters after the CJEU Ruling on Article 17 of the Copyright Directive. Join the conference on 19 September.

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October 5, 2005

Consultation European Commission on library digitising

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on its program to digitise the collections of European libraries. The program on digital libraries is a response to a letter sent in April this year by six European presidents and priministers to create a virtual European library. On 30 September the Commission adopted a Communication on […]

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