Results for copyright

June 3, 2009

WIPO: Visually impaired treaty proposal

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [WIPO: Antrag auf ein Abkommen für Sehbehinderte | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1418] The WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) met from 25 to 29 May in Geneva. This time, the main points on the agenda were the survey on limitations and exceptions and the visually impaired treaty proposal […]

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May 19, 2010

German supreme court fines owner of open WiFi network

Article corrected on 22.05.2010 This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutscher Bundesgerichtshof: Geldstrafe für Besitzer von ungesicherten WLAN-Netzen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1933] The Federal Supreme Court in Germany (Bundesgerichtshof (BGH)) has ruled in a case where an illegal download took place via an low-protected wireless Internet Access point, that the owner of the which should have […]

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March 27, 2013 · Blogs

Online piracy is not to be blamed for the drop in music revenues

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Online-Piraterie nicht schuld an rückläufigen Musikumsätzen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.6_Online-Piraterie_nicht_schuld_an_ruecklaeufigen_Musikumsaetzen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130327] As continuously argued by different IT specialists, digital freedom activists and organisations during the last few years, online piracy does not affect music industry revenues, as it is shown by a new research performed by The Institute for Prospective Technological […]

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May 19, 2010

ECJ Advocate General: Limitations to the levy on private copies

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EuGH: Generalanwältin will Beschränkungen bei Abgaben auf Privatkopien | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1934] Verica Trstenjak, Advocate General at the EU Court of Justice, believes the levy on private copies imposed on digital equipment, devices and media should be limited to cases “where it may be presumed that they are to be […]

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December 17, 2014 · Blogs

TTIP & Co.: Threats to digital rights?

Secrecy in trade negotiations and the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) have been the two most discussed topics of the year, especially in relation to the negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). It was not by chance that the European Commission received 149,399 responses to the ISDS public consultation. Neither was it a […]

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January 22, 2016 · Blogs

Mozilla’s Open Web Fellowship 2016: Join EDRi’s team!

Mozilla’s Open Web Fellows programme, which was launched in 2015, is an international programme designed to link developers, engineers, technologists and programmers with civil society organisations around the world to help protect the Internet. For this second year of the programme, EDRi is proud to be the among the first European organisations to be chosen […]

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January 25, 2017 · Blogs

#PrivacyCamp17: Controlling data, controlling machines

Accountability, transparency and profiling were the buzzwords of the fifth annual Privacy Camp, which took place on 24 January in Brussels. The camp, this year entitled “Controlling data, controlling machines: dangers and solutions”, brought together civil society, policy-makers and academia to discuss the problems for human rights in the digital environment. The event is organised […]

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June 17, 2009

The French Constitutional Council censures the 3 strikes law

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Der Französische Verfassungsrat zensiert das 3 Treffer-Gesetz | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1429] As a result of the appeal of the Socialist Party, the French Constitutional Council decided on 10 June 2009 that 3 strikes (known also as Hadopi) draft law was infringing the Constitution and the Declaration of the Rights of […]

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May 4, 2011 · Blogs

French Digital Council with no representative from Internet users

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreichs Internet-Rat ohne Konsumentenvertreter | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Franzoesischer_Internetrat_ohne_Vertretung_der_Internetnutzer] On 27 April 2011, French President Nicolas Sarkozy officially installed the National Digital Council (Conseil national du numérique – CNN) which is to advise the French government on digital issues. Among the 18 personalities belonging to the newly established body, there is […]

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June 17, 2009

The telecoms ministers rejected the telecom package as adopted by the EP

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Die Telekomminister lehnen das Telekompaket in der vom EP angenommenen Form ab | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1432] The European Commission continues to pressure the Council and the new European Parliament to rapidly adopt the telecoms package without a proper scrutiny of the law or any consideration of the implications of Amendment […]

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May 4, 2011

BitTorrent site blocked by Italian court

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Italienisches Gericht sperrt BitTorrent-Seite | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Italienisches_Gericht_sperrt_BitTorrent-Seite] On 21 April 2011, an Italian court ordered all Italian ISPs to block the BitTorrent search website BTjunkie considered by the public prosecutor as one of the most prominent havens for pirated media. BTjunkie IP addresses and its domain name were to […]

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December 5, 2005

EDRI and PI call on EP to reject data retention

European Digital Rights and Privacy International are urgently calling on the individual members of the European Parliament to reject the misguided compromise proposal on data retention. Party leaders of the christian-democrats and social-democrats in the parliament have agreed behind closed doors to allow for mandatory data retention of telephony and internet data for a period […]

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