Results for node/ACTA

March 24, 2014 · Blogs

We Promise : Driving Democracy in the Digital Age

Press briefing & panel discussion in the European Parliament, 1 April at 2pm, Room PHS 0A50 In the course of the current legislature, the European Parliament took important steps towards improved civil rights and a more democratic European Union. It listened to citizens when rejecting ACTA, it passed several Resolutions supporting net neutrality, it listened […]

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November 19, 2014 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Transparency in TTIP? Yes, but in practice, please!

The EU and the US are currently negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which is a wide-ranging agreement likely to affect digital rights and freedoms. Lack of transparency is at the core of the criticism regarding the negotiations surrounding TTIP and the conclusion of a flurry of free trade agreements. The TTIP negotiations […]

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February 11, 2015 · Blogs

Final push for our crowdsourcing campaign

European Digital Rights’ existence is at stake. Our main funding projects all end in 2015. In December 2014, we launched a campaign asking help to ensure we can continue our work to transform Europe into a free and open society, where your civil rights and freedoms are reliably guaranteed. Now, the last days of the […]

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February 25, 2015 · Blogs

UN report on copyright – is the EU really a beacon of human rights?

Copyright has seen a spectacular rise in importance, both politically and legally, in recent decades. The digitisation of cultural and scientific goods has led many rights holders to see strengthened copyright protection as the only means of ensuring the survival of the cultural industry. To a large extent the rights holders’ quest for more legal […]

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January 24, 2017 · Blogs

Despite large opposition, CETA limps forward in the European Parliament

On 24 January 2017, the European Parliament Committee on International Trade (INTA) voted in favour of the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA), despite the concerns about fundamental rights and the right to regulate. We regret that the international trade committee appears to be motivated by short-term political objectives, rather than what is actually written in […]

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September 23, 2009

Secret IPR measures in EU – South Korea trade agreement

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Geheime IPR-Maßnahmen im Handelsabkommen zwischen der EU und Südkorea | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1529] The European Union and South Korea plan to initiate a Free Trade Agreement in October 2009. The trade agreement includes civil, border and criminal measures for the enforcement of copyright, trademark rights, patents and other exclusive rights. […]

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November 5, 2009

Free as in Free Culture

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frei wie in freie Kultur | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1566] Free Culture Forum (FCF), organized by the Spanish NGO Exgae together with Networked Politics and the Free Knowledge Institute turned Barcelona in the capital of free culture for 3 days. Of course, Free as in Free Speech. The official Introduction of […]

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January 13, 2010

IP Chapter in the EU-Korea free trade agreement essentially flawed

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [IP-Kapitel des EU-koreanischen Freihandelsabkommens ist im Wesentlichen fehlerhaft | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1653] The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) calls upon the EU Parliament and member states to remove the intellectual property rights chapter from the EU – Korea Free Trade Agreement. According to the FFII analysis, the free […]

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February 24, 2010

EP: Draft reports on IPR enforcement published

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäisches Parlament: Vorläufige Berichte zur Durchsetzung des geistigen Eigentumsrechts veröffentlicht | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1725] The European Parliament (EP) is working on a position in regards with the European Commission’s Green Paper on enhancing the enforcement of intellectual property rights on the internal market. Three EP committees are involved in this […]

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April 7, 2010

ENDitorial: Commissioner blames USA for imposition of EU censorship

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Kommissarin gibt der USA die Schuld an der wachsenden Zensur in der EU | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1836] In a blog post, Commissioner Malmström’s press spokesman Love Berggren placed the blame for the perceived need to impose EU-wide blocking squarely at the feet of the governments in the USA, Russia […]

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June 2, 2010

Graduated Response in Ireland and UK

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Three Strikes in Irland und Großbritannien | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1969] Irish Service Provider Eircom announced on 24 May 2010 its decision to introduce a voluntary graduate response procedure that would end up in shutting down broadband Internet connections of its clients who are considered to illegally download music. The decision […]

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June 16, 2010

MEPs debating Human Rights for Internet users

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Abgeordnete diskutieren Menschenrechte für Internetuser | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2004] On 2 June 2010, the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament (DROI) hosted a parliamentary hearing on the human rights implications of new information technologies and communications networks. Finnish Green MEP Heidi Hautala, the Chair of the Human Rights […]

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