Results for copyright

May 23, 2007

UK House of Commons culture committee wants copyright extension

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The copyright term for sound recordings is back on the public agenda in UK, after a report from the House of Commons culture committee has recommended its extension from 50 to 70 years, despite the negative feedback received earlier from Andrew Gowers’ report or a recent study […]

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December 5, 2012

Chisugate: Copyright blackmail in Finland

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Chisugate: Copyright-Erpressung in Finnland | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_Chisugate_Copyright-Erpressung_in_Finnland?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] In the spring of 2012, in Finland, the father of a young girl received what amounted to a blackmail letter from a copyright lawyer. The letter demanded the payment of 600 Euros as damages for having distributed copyright-protected music recordings. The letter […]

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August 1, 2007

UK Government rejects the extension of the copyright term for performers

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) To the big disappointment of the music industry, the UK Government refused to promote at the EU level, the extension of the presently 50-year copyright term for performers. According to the EU rules, the copyright period for song writers and their families covers their entire lives plus […]

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February 24, 2010

ENDitorial: Richard Stallman on "Copyright versus Public" in Berne

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Richard Stallmann in Bern über „Urheberrecht vs. Öffentlichkeit“ | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1731] On 11 February 2010 the auditorium at the University of Berne was packed for a talk by Richard Stallman on copyright issues. Stallman is better known as the founder of the GNU free software system which, together […]

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May 4, 2011

Copyright complaint leads to public domain music library takedown

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Urheberrechtsbeschwerde: Musikbibliothek offline | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Urheberrechtsbeschwerde_Musikbibliothek_offline] International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), the largest public domain music library on the Internet, has been recently taken offline following a complaint from the UK’s Music Publishers Association which convinced registrar GoDaddy to takedown their website. The action was brought over a […]

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December 17, 2008

UK Government now in favour of the extension of the copyright term

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At UK Music’s Creators’ Conference on 1 December 2008, Culture Minister Andy Burnham announced the backing of the UK Government to extending the copyright term for sound recordings to 70 years. The decision goes against the recommendations of Andrew Gowers, whose 2006 review of copyright is in […]

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January 17, 2007

Copyright extension term rejected by EU commissioned report

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Recasting of Copyright & Related Rights for the Knowledge Economy is a new study commissioned by the European Union and produced by the Institute for Information Law – University of Amsterdam. The report covers an extensive ground in the EU copyright domain taking into consideration the […]

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April 26, 2016 · Blogs | Information democracy | Transparency

#ReadAnneDiary (if you can)

The chaotic and outdated copyright framework in the European Union (EU) negatively impacts citizens by placing absurd restrictions on use of cultural goods. These restrictions benefit neither authors nor  society in general. The European Commission (EC), in its quest to achieve a Digital Single Market, is aiming at reforming the situation and is trying to […]

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July 25, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

The EU gets another opportunity to improve copyright rules

The EU gets another opportunity to improve a copyright proposal that would have threatened the open web.

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February 14, 2019 · Blogs | Campaigns | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Copyright Directive: Upload filters strike back

The behind-closed-doors discussions between the European Parliament negotiating team, EU Member States and the European Commission on the copyright Directive finalised last night with an agreement. The text, prepared by France and Germany, will be put to a vote between March and April in the European Parliament and could become law soon afterwards. The copyright […]

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July 11, 2017 · Blogs

Latest copyright votes: Filtering, blocking & half-baked compromises

On 11 July, two Committees in the European Parliament voted on their Opinions on European Commission’s proposal for a Copyright Directive: the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). CULT decided to abandon all reason and propose measures that contradict existing law on monitoring of online content. […]

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October 5, 2016 · Blogs

ENDitorial: It is possible that Netflix is legal in Ireland – or not

Perhaps it should come as a surprise that copyrighted data are protected in law more rigorously than personal data in Europe. In data protection law, there is a “legitimate interest” exception: if you are processing personal data because you have a “legitimate interest” in doing so, and if this does not undermine the rights of […]

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