Results for copyright

October 25, 2006

ENDitorial – Regulating the Patent Industry

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) We know that for over two decades, the global patent industry has been trying – discretely, and sometimes less discretely – to get software patents legalised. When Brian Kahin wrote about the US software patent issue in 1990, the US had already allowed software patents for almost […]

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November 8, 2006

The Role of OSS for the Development of Information Society

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The conference “The Role of Open Source Software for the Development of Information Society” was held in Yerevan, capital of Armenia from 31 October to 1 November 2006. The conference aimed at the exchange of experience in open source promotion policy and in the use of open […]

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January 17, 2007

Prison or fine for French p2p users ?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The French Minister of Culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, considered in December 2006 that there should be no prison for those downloading only a few works from the Internet. However, just a couple of weeks after this statement an Internet user was condemned by a French court […]

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January 17, 2007

EDRI signs the Joint Statement for SCCR 1st Special Session

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights’ (SCCR) Special Session is taking place right now at Geneva. The meeting (and another in June 2007) aims to fix the proposed Broadcast Treaty so that it could be ratified by the end of this year in a diplomatic conference. […]

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January 31, 2007

Temporary injunction against RapidShare.de

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Germany society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights GEMA has obtained temporary injunctions from the District Court in Cologne against the operator of data exchange services RapidShare.de and RapidShare.com. The so-called “sharehosters” services operate in a similar way, allowing users to upload content on virtual […]

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March 28, 2007

IPRED2 adopted by the EP Legal Affairs committee

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs committee has adopted on 20 March 2007 the draft IPRED directive following the opinions presented by MEP Nicola Zingaretti, with some important amendments though. The good news is that the very controversial definition of “commercial scale infringement”, that previously included the IPRs […]

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April 12, 2007

Private copy explained by Court of Appeal in Paris

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new decision of the Paris Court of Appeal in the case Mulholland Drive considers that there is no right to the private copy that can forbid the presence of the DRMs, but the private copy can be a good argument for defence in cases of counterfeiting. […]

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April 25, 2007

IPRED2 voted in first reading by the European Parliament

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED2), with the changes made by a report produced by Nicola Zingaretti (PES), was voted by the European Parliament in its first reading today with a vote a 374 in favour, 278 against and 17 abstentions. Unfortunately, the suggestions from an […]

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May 23, 2007

International Declaration on G8 and Intellectual Property launched

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The German non-profit organization “Netzwerk Freies Wissen” (Free Knowledge Network) heavily criticizes the goals of the conference held by the G8 states’ ministers of justice starting on 23 May 2007. The most important item on the agenda is a stronger enforcement of intellectual property. For this reason […]

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May 23, 2007

Romanian open source community gets together

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Probably the most important conference in Romania on open source and free software took place at the end of the last week – on 18-19 May 2007 in Brasov. The eLiberatica 2007 conference was organized by a new group of IT specialists called Romanian Open Source and […]

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June 6, 2007

French State Council allows tracing P2P users

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The State Council of France validated on 23 May 2007 the automatic tracing of illegal downloading in P2P networks. This decision cancelled the 18th October 2005 CNIL (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés) decision that rejected the introduction of surveillance devices proposed by Sacem and other […]

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July 4, 2007

The Austrian government has postponed the law for data retention

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A spokesman of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology has confirmed that due to the flood of responses to the law proposal there is no way to have data retention ready before the deadline set by the directive. The ministry received a total of 90 […]

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