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February 28, 2007

ENDitorial : EU nations scolded by IIPA

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), a lobby group representing the American publishing, software, recording and movie industries, has been busy. On 12 February IIPA published its recommendations to the US Trade Representative’s 2007 review of global copyright laws. This “Special 301” procedure can lead to significant […]

October 3, 2011

Parliament responds to EDRi's ACTA document request

The European Parliament has finally responded to our request for documents in relation to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Access to documents is very important since much of the wording of the agreement is very unclear. In such cases, preparatory documents are used to discover the intentions of the negotiators. Without access to those documents […]

EDRi briefing note: Council amendments for Article 16-18 in draft CSA Regulation

EDRi briefing note: Council amendments for Article 16-18 in draft CSA Regulation

Background Note EDRi Encryption Event

Background Note EDRi Encryption Event

May 20, 2015 · Blogs

EDRi-gram 300: Digital rights news from 2025

We are proud to present the 300th edition of the EDRi-gram as an eBook entitled “Digital rights news from 2025”!

August 2, 2006

The French copyright law changed by the Constitutional Council

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The French Constitutional Council ruled on the most controversial copyright and related rights law, known as DADVSI law, concluding that some provisions of the law “violated the constitutional protections of property”. The Council has considered as unconstitutional several provisions adopted by the French Parliament that were meant […]

June 16, 2004

Berlin declaration on music flatrate

During the Wizards of OS conference in Berlin, from 10 to 12 June 2004, legal scientists and civil rights defenders jointly launched a declaration on collectively managed online rights. The declaration is a response to the call for comments on the Communication from the European Commission on the management of copyright and related rights in […]

November 20, 2013 · Blogs

TPP May Be Worse Than ACTA

A version of 30 August 2013 of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) draft confirms previously expressed concerns that the negotiating parties are prepared to expand the reach of intellectual property rights to the detriment of consumer rights and data protection. The document was recently leaked and published by Wikileaks […]

April 10, 2017 · Blogs

RightsCon session on cross-border access to e-evidence – key interventions

European Digital Rights organised a session at the RightsCon conference in Brussels on 31 March 2017, in order to build awareness among stakeholders about the multiple international developments on law enforcement access to electronic evidence. The bulk of the discussions focussed on a possible new protocol to the Cybercrime (Budapest) Convention of the Council of […]

June 19, 2013 · Blogs

EDRi letter to the US Embassy on PRISM

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [PRISM: EDRi-Schreiben an US-Botschafter | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.12_PRISM_EDRi-Schreiben_an_US-Botschafter?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130619] On 18 June 2013, EDRi delivered the following letter in a frank exchange of views with the US Embassy on PRISM & data protection: European Digital Rights would like to thank you for the invitation to meet with you today. We welcome […]

November 6, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Danish data retention: Back to normal after major crisis

The Danish police and the Ministry of Justice consider access to electronic communications data to be a crucial tool for investigation and prosecution of criminal offences. Legal requirements for blanket data retention, which originally transposed the EU Data Retention Directive, are still in place in Denmark, despite the judgments from the Court of Justice of […]

May 30, 2016 · Blogs

EU Commission under investigation for EU Internet Forum documents

In the past year, EDRi made numerous formal requests to get more information about the EU Internet Forum. This Forum was set up by the EU Commission to persuade companies to do “more” to fight terrorism. After months of obstruction from the European Commission, EDRi made a maladministration complaint to the European Ombudsman. As a […]