Results for node/ACTA

May 22, 2013 · Blogs

TTIP – a brief victory of hope over experience

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [TTIP – ein flüchtiger Sieg der Hoffnung über die Erfahrung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.10_TTIP_ein_fluechtiger_Sieg_der_Hoffnung_ueber_die_Erfahrung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130526] The European Commission this week started providing some insight into its plans for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – in an event in the European Parliament organised by Dutch Liberal MEP, Marietje Schaake and […]

February 6, 2014 · Blogs

We promise. What’s the point?

Maybe, after all of the noise about crazy ideas like “Clean IT” and ACTA, there won’t be any big digital rights files for the incoming European Parliament. Maybe we don’t need to worry about having parliamentarians who understand the internet and digital rights. Maybe there won’t be any relevant proposals anyway. Maybe we don’t need […]

May 29, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi’s leadership transition: Looking back at our victories

EDRi is not one person. EDRi is not one office. EDRi is 39 organisations, mostly volunteer-run. EDRi is sweat and stress, frustration and success. Most of all, EDRi is 15 years of successes made possible by an immensely passionate network. And this network is now looking for a new Executive Director.

October 31, 2012

CETA: EU ditches criminal sanctions…. almost

In documents seen by EDRi, the current Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union made a proposal at the beginning of October to delete the criminal sanctions section of the proposed EU/Canada Free Trade Agreement. Following initially positive responses from the Member States, it has now been provisionally agreed that the deletion of […]

July 9, 2012

Article 27 of ACTA

What does “endeavour to promote cooperative efforts within the business community to effectively address” infringements really mean? Article 31 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties explains that: 1. A treaty shall be interpreted in good faith in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in […]

November 7, 2007

EU pushes for an international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A recent statement from the European Commission reveals that it has started negotiations with US, Japan, Korea, Mexico and New Zealand to create an international treaty on counterfeiting – Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), despite the absence of any independent data on the topic. The European Commission […]

March 27, 2013 · Blogs

Civil society wants no intellectual property provisions in TAFTA

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Zivilgesellschaft gegen Urheberrechtsbestimmungen in TAFTA | /EDRigram_11.6_Zivilgesellschaft_gegen_Urheberrechtsbestimmungen_in_TAFTA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130327] More than 45 civil society organisations from US and Europe, including EDRi, ask that the proposed EU-US trade agreement called Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) should exclude any provisions related to patents, copyright, trademarks, or other forms of so-called “intellectual property”. […]

December 2, 2009

ENDitorial: Keeping the "self" in self-regulation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Das „Selbst“ in Selbstregulierung wahren| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1616] Businesses, particularly in the Internet environment, fear (and often have good reason to fear) government regulation. Traditionally, therefore, Internet Service Providers have pushed for “self-regulatory” solutions to issues surrounding the management and operation of their own networks – as in the […]

StopACTA.info

In February 2012, hundreds of thousands of people took the streets in several European cities in order to protest ACTA. The fight was successful, with the European Parliament dismissing the agreement in the same year.

February 15, 2012

EC "Roadmap" for review of the IPR Enforcement Directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Roadmap der Kommission für die Überprüfung der Urheberrechtsrichtlinie | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.3_Roadmap_der_Kommission_fuer_die_Ueberpruefung_der_Urheberrechtsrichtlinie?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120221] The European Commission recently published a “roadmap” to the review of the Directive on Intellectual Property Enforcement (2004/48/EC). As it is becoming traditional, the Commission neatly mixes up all kinds of infringements, from dangerous fake medicines to illegal […]

June 18, 2014 · Blogs

Freedom of information: EU Commission creates barriers for access to documents requests

It is crucial to know what the European institutions are up to in order to ensure that citizens’ fundamental rights are respected. Democracy requires vigilance and vigilance requires access to information. It is precisely for this reason that freedom of information legislation exists. Since the entry in force of Regulation 1049/2001 setting up the EU […]

October 19, 2016 · Blogs

“Follow the money” on copyright infringements

The European Commission is pushing forward energetically on privatised law enforcement projects for all manner of internet activities. This is the approach to terrorism, hate speech, copyright enforcement… whatever the question, the answer is that internet companies can solve the problem.