Results for copyright

July 15, 2004

Report about two copyright conferences

The annual ‘New Directions in Copyright’ conference was held 29 and 30 June 2004 at University of London, organised jointly by the Arts and Humanities Research Board and the Birckbeck School of Law. The focus was on legal issues pertaining to recent developments in copyright. The flat fee / compulsory licensing was under serious debate […]

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August 23, 2016 · Blogs

Copyright reform: Unlocking copyright for users?

On 8 September 2016, only a few days before the European Commission will announce its plans for a copyright reform, Communia and EDRi will be organising an event to discuss some of they key issues, namely the failures of the current EU copyright law, and the situation of exceptions and limitations. The event “Copyright Reform: Unlocking […]

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March 7, 2018 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Freedom of expression online

New copyright compromise text: Filter or be filtered

Discussions on the censorship machine continue at the level of the Council of the European Union.

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October 31, 2004

EDRI answer to consultation on EU copyright legislation

In October 2004 the European Commission organised a consultation on the review of EU legislation on copyright and related rights. EDRI sent in an evaluation, together with FIPR (UK) and VOSN (NL). The paper is available at: http://www.edri.org/docs/edri_copyright_consultation.pdf In the paper, EDRI argues for higher standards of user rights. The response was endorsed by twenty […]

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March 25, 2015 · Blogs

Copyright exceptions and limitations – back to the future

The noise around the non-legislative report of the European Parliament on the Copyright in the Information Society Directive (also known as the InfoSoc Directive and Directive 2001/29/EC) in Brussels is deafening. With one Committee still to table its amendments, the total number of amendment has already reached 759. Part of the reason for this is […]

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February 23, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Final Copyright “compromise”: Upload filters for everyone but Google & Co

On 21 February, the rapporteur of the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) Axel Voss issued his suggestion for a “compromise” on the Copyright reform, on which the Committee will vote in April.

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September 4, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Copyright: Compulsory filtering instead of obligatory filtering – a compromise?

Tomorrow, 5 September 2018 at 12h CEST, is the deadline to table amendments to the proposed Copyright Directive. T

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April 25, 2007

Free file sharing in the copyright law supported by a Norwegian Party

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Norwegian Liberal Party (Venstre) passed a resolution on 14 April 2007 to support changes in the copyright law including free file sharing, free sampling and the banning of DRM systems. The resolution proposed by the Young Liberals and supported by Trine Skei Grande, Vice Chairwoman of […]

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February 27, 2008

Extension of the copyright term for performers proposed to the EC

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 14 February 2008, EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy announced his intention to propose to the European Commission (EC), in the next several months, an extension of the copyright term for performers from 50 to 95 years. This proposal should be ready for adoption by the […]

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June 29, 2011

UK: Copyright holders ask for website blocking

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britische Rechteinhaber fordern Netzsperren | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.13_Britische_Rechteinhaber_fordern_Netzsperren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110708] According to some leaked reports, copyright holders seem to have proposed during a roundtable with UK Government representatives, ISPs and others on 15 June 2011, plans that could lead to the blocking of websites that allegedly host copyright infringing material. Apparently, the […]

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July 13, 2011

EP Hearing "Copyright and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age"

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Hearing im EU-Parlament: “Urheberrecht und Geistiges Eigentum im Digitalen Zeitalter” | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_EP_Urheberrecht_und_Geistiges_Eigentum_im_digitalen_Zeitalter?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721] The Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament held a hearing on Copyright and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age” in the European Parliament (EP) on 29 and 30 June 2011. The event was organised […]

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August 24, 2011

Copyright industry obtains court injunction against BT to block website

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Copyright-Industrie setzt Verfügung gegen BT zur Sperre von Websites durch | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.16_Copyright_Industrie_setzt_Verfuegung_gegen_BT_zur_Sperre _von_Websites_durch?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110901] In a dangerous precedent, on 28 July 2011, an UK High Court judge ruled that British Telecom (BT), the UK largest ISP, had to prevent its customers from accessing Newzbin 2, a website searching Usenet […]

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