Results for copyright

December 15, 2010

Sweden's high court sends IP-data protection conflict to the ECJ

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Oberster Schwedischer Gerichtshof verweist Streit um Schutz von IP-Adressen an den EuGH | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2444] The Swedish ISP TeliaSonera has recently received a decision at the Swedish Supreme Court that questions a 2009 court decision forcing it to hand over the identity of SweTorrents BitTorrent site operator. In 2009, […]

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November 16, 2011

2011 Public Voice Civil Society Conference: "Privacy is Freedom"

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [2011 Public Voice Konferenz der Zivilgesellschaft: “Privacy is Freedom” | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.22_2011_Public_Voice_Konferenz_der_Zivilgesellschaft?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111116] The Public Voice meeting that took place on 31 October 2011 in Mexico City began with a discussion of the 2009 Madrid declarations (both those from DPAs and civil society). Most participants felt there had been little […]

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July 2, 2008

France promotes the three-strike scheme in Europe

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) With France taking over the presidency of the European Union on 1 July 2008, the French Minister of Culture, Christine Albanel, wants to get a consensus in the fight against p2p downloading by translating the French model to the entire Europe. Christine Albane presented on 19 June […]

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November 17, 2011 · Blogs

European Parliament warns of global dangers of US domain revocation proposals

Responding to an intervention by EDRi (video, speech (PDF) at a hearing recently on attacks against computer systems, the European Parliament today adopted, by a large majority, a resolution on the upcoming EU/US summit stressing “the need to protect the integrity of the global internet and freedom of communication by refraining from unilateral measures to […]

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November 21, 2012

CleanIT looking for the question that it was seeking an answer to

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [CleanIT oder Wie war noch mal die Frage? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_CleanIT_oder_Wie_war_noch_mal_die_Frage?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] Few people know that CleanIT was born from another failed project – the European Commission-led “dialogue on illegal online content”. In that “dialogue”, the European Commission (DG HOME) sought to persuade Internet hosting companies to delete websites containing […]

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June 24, 2014 · Blogs

Answering guide to the European Commission’s consultation on ISDS

In light of the public consulation on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) launched by the European Commission in March 2014, and EDRi in collaboration with Access, Vrijschrift and Bits of Freedom, has created an answering guide. The answering guide will help you go through the different questions asked by the Commission and provides guidelines on how […]

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January 12, 2011

IPR Enforcement Plan: Blocking, filtering and monitoring via injunction

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Durchsetzungsrichtlinie bei IPR: Sperren, Filtern und Überwachen mittels Verfügung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2501] Just before Christmas, the European Commission published its report on the application of the IPR Enforcement Directive. The text, while written in fairly neutral terms, does subtly show the Commission’s plans for the enforcement of intellectual property […]

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August 24, 2016 · Blogs

EDRi welcomes its Open Web Fellow

Starting from September 2016, the new Ford-Mozilla Fellow Siddharth (Sid) Rao will spend ten months with the EDRi office in Brussels, working in cooperation with us to safeguard the internet as a global public resource.

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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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July 16, 2008

Vote in the EP committees on the Telecom Package

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The IMCO (Internal Market Committee) and ITRE (Committee on Industry, Research and Energy) committees of the European Parliament (EP) adopted on the 7 July 2008 the Telecom package, including the amendments that were considered by some NGOs as endangering the principle of the neutrality of the Internet. […]

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March 11, 2004

Privacy-penalty for French Scientology critic

In France the owner of a website was convicted to pay a penalty of 450 Euro for publishing personal data without first registering with the Data Protection Authority, the CNIL. On 25 February the appeal-court of Lyon confirmed the earlier ruling, even though the judges decided to suspend payment of the penalty. Remarkably the website-owner, […]

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July 2, 2014 · Blogs

Google and the right to be forgotten – the truth is out there

After all of the noise surrounding the Google/Spain case, the “deletion” of search results, the paedophiles whose crimes would be washed away and the end of history, the reality of the case is slowly drifting into the media. We were told by the Wall Street Journal three weeks ago that any search results that were […]

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