Results for copyright

January 15, 2004

Norway: no more court cases for DVD-Jon

The case against DVD-Jon (Jon Johansen) finally ended on 5 January 2004, when the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit (Okokrim) confirmed it would not appeal the upholding of his acquittal on copyright charges to the Supreme Court of Norway. DVD-Jon won the first trial on the 6th of January 2003. The Norwegian Okokrim appealed but Jon […]

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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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January 15, 2004

Launch of Irish Free Software Organisation

On 5 January 2004 the Irish Free Software Organisation (IFSO) was launched. Since June 2003, members of a European free software mailing list have been collaborating on issues such as software patents, and the European Copyright Directive. One of the founders, Ciaran O’Riordan, comments: “With Ireland holding the presidency of the EU for the next […]

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July 1, 2015 · Blogs

Google admits it was wrong on “right to be forgotten”

In the widely publicised “Google/Spain” ruling of the European Court of Justice (CJEU), it was decided that the results of Google searches sometimes infringe the rights of individuals. In such circumstances, individuals can complain – to Google in the first instance – and ask for searches involving their name to be de-linked from the unfair […]

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July 8, 2015 · Blogs

TTIP Resolution: what did the Parliament say about Digital Rights?

On 8 July, 2015, the European Parliament finally adopted a resolution on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The TTIP resolution contains non-binding recommendations to the Commission regarding digital rights, among other topics. At the beginning of 2015, EDRi published its red lines, which was later developed into a booklet “TTIP and Digital Rights”. […]

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May 26, 2014 · Blogs

We promised to recruit digital rights-friendly MEPs – we delivered

WePromise.eu was an innovative campaign that sought to bring digital rights to the agenda of the European elections. It gathered wide support from throughout the political spectrum as well as from civil society and citizens, exceeding all expectations. With 434 candidates having signed up to the Charter of digital rights – including two top EU […]

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January 28, 2004

German DP Commissioner criticizes draft IPR Enforcement

Peter Schaar, appointed 2 months ago as Germany’s chief Data Protection Commissioner, has severely criticized the draft Directive on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, currently under discussion in the European Parliament and the Council. Interviewed by the online news service Heise, Schaar said the Directive brought along many risks, including deep cuts into the […]

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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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June 4, 2008

Creative Commons Bulgaria Licence upheld in court

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Veni Markovski from EDRi-member ISOC Bulgaria reports on his blog on the first case when the CreativeCommons Licence was upheld in court in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian blogger Elenko Elenkov filed a lawsuit against the newspaper “24 hours” for having used one of his photos, licenced under the […]

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January 14, 2009

UK Culture Secretary wants film-style ratings to individual websites

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has presented, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph at the end of the last year, some new plans in adopting to the web “new standards of decency”. The Cabinet minister is planing to give film-style ratings to individual websites and […]

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October 26, 2012

Lawless, unproven filtering and blocking of content as “best practice”

On Monday of next week (29 October, 2012), the European Union and the United States will have a “summit” (draft agenda) on “Exchange of Best Practices for Child Protection Online”. In the course of that meeting, the question of measures to prevent “re-uploading of the content” will be discussed. Both the European Commission and the […]

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