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Belgium court backs decision against Google
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In the case brought by Copiepresse, a trade group representing 17 Belgium newspapers, against Google for publishing links to newspaper articles without permission, the Brussels Tribunal upheld its previous decision and ruled that Google violated the copyright law. Google was ordered to remove Belgian newspaper content from […]
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French Court decides on the sequel of Les Miserables
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The French Cour de Cassation (the highest Appeal Court in France) has taken a decision regarding a sequel of the famous French book Les Miserables, that was contested by one of the descendants of Victor Hugo. The Court has refused to ban the appearance of the sequel […]
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Results of the WIPO’s SCCR Special Session 1
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The broadcast treaty was the only item on the agenda of the three-day special session of WIPO’s standing committee on copyright and related rights. (SCCR). At the meeting it became clear that no-one really knew how to proceed with the negotiations. The chairman Jukka Liedes (Finland) tried […]
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European Commission gets new complaints on Vista
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A group of Microsoft’s rivals has filed a complaint against the Seattle-based company for using its new product Vista, under release these days, to unfairly continue and even strengthen its dominant position on the market. The group including IBM, Nokia, RealNetworks, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Corel, Opera, Oracle, […]
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Copyright extension term rejected by EU commissioned report
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Recasting of Copyright & Related Rights for the Knowledge Economy is a new study commissioned by the European Union and produced by the Institute for Information Law – University of Amsterdam. The report covers an extensive ground in the EU copyright domain taking into consideration the […]
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Prison or fine for French p2p users ?
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The French Minister of Culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, considered in December 2006 that there should be no prison for those downloading only a few works from the Internet. However, just a couple of weeks after this statement an Internet user was condemned by a French court […]
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EDRI signs the Joint Statement for SCCR 1st Special Session
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights’ (SCCR) Special Session is taking place right now at Geneva. The meeting (and another in June 2007) aims to fix the proposed Broadcast Treaty so that it could be ratified by the end of this year in a diplomatic conference. […]
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Promotion of open standards in Poland
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 14 December 2006 a Coalition for Open Standards was established by a large group of IT companies and organizations in Poland with a view to promote open technological standards. The coalition aims at taking measures to ensure freedom of choice for IT solutions for Polish citizens […]
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Google has taken steps to settle the Belgium lawsuit
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Google has decided to settle with SOFAM and SCAM, two of the Belgian newspapers groups having sued the company for using excerpts from their articles in the Google News Belgium service. SOFAM, a group representing the rights of photographers and SCAM, a group representing journalists, had joined […]
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Italian postal codes are again freely accesible
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At the end of September 2006, after a reorganisation of the postal codes system (CAP), the Italian Post (Poste Italiane), now a private company, as well as the Italian Ministry of Communications have changed the way in which one could access the postal code online , limiting […]
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Danish ISP forced to block Allofmp3.com
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A Danish court ruled against the Danish ISP Tele2 and ordered to block all access to the site Allofmp3.com. According to the ruling, the ISP is willingly infringing copyright if its customers use AllofMP3 to download music. IFPI Denmark sued the ISP, Tele2, in July 2006. It […]
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Fileshares get different treatment in Europe's courts
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A few interesting decisions regarding the copyright infringement by fileshares have been taken in the last weeks by courts from different states in Europe. Usage of p2p programms has been considered totally different in decisions in Finland, Sweden and Spain. At the end of October 2006, a […]
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