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ECJ: no legal protection for spin-off databases
The European Court of Justice has decided to diminish the legal protection of so called ‘spin-off’ databases under the Database Directive 1996/9/EC. In order to claim ‘sui generis’ database protection, a substantial investment must be made “in seeking, collecting, verifying and presenting existing materials”. The resources used to create the materials which make up the […]
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EDRI response to EU copyright consultation
In answer to a consultation from the European Commission on the review of copyright law EDRI, EDRI-member FIPR and the Vereniging Open-source Nederland have argued for higher standards of user rights. The response was endorsed by twenty organisations. In stead of deleting such provisions from older directives such as 91/250 on Software, 92/100 on Rental […]
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Response to EU consultation on review of copyright law
Joint response by European Digital Rights , the Foundation for Information Policy Research and Vereniging Open-source Nederland to the EU Commission consultation on the review of the EU ”acquis communautaire” in the field of copyright and related rights, endorsed by 19 more organisations. This response is also available in Italian http://people.miu-ft.org/~sama/edri.copyright/ !Endorsing organisations: A.B.U.S.E. – […]
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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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European Commission infringes EDRI's Intellectual Property Rights
The European Commission, otherwise known as being in favour of taking rigorous action against infringers of Intellectual Property Rights, is an infringer itself. On its e-Government news site, the Brussels executive body published, on October 14, an Article about a biometrics hearing at the European Parliament that is almost entirely made up by snippets from […]
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Response to EU consultation on review of copyright law
Joint response by European Digital Rights , the Foundation for Information Policy Research and Vereniging Open-source Nederland to the EU Commission consultation on the review of the EU ”acquis communautaire” in the field of copyright and related rights. If your organisation wishes to endorse this response, please write an e-mail indicating the organisation’s name, your […]
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Workshop report Copyright in Europe
Just before the Commission hearing on DRM, EDRI member FIPR (Foundation for Information Policy Research) organised a 2 day workshop on the future of EU legislation on copyright in Cambridge. In his opening remarks, FIPR chairman Ross Anderson pointed to the ‘big, greedy’ industry interests dominating the discussion about so-called Intellectual Property Rights at present […]
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Commission curbs Civil Society in DRM Hearing
Civil Society representatives, user and consumer advocates were not allowed to voice their concerns on social, cultural and economic consequences of a wide-spread introduction of so-called Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology during a hearing organized by the European Commission on 11 October, in Brussels. Stopping short from actually censoring these concerns, which were voiced by […]
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DRM: Commission not interested in Civil Society's position
Civil Society representatives, user and consumer advocates were left almost speechless yesterday, October 11, at a hearing organised by the European Commission on Digital Rights Management. Due to the invitation policy of the Commission’s DG Internal Market, the event, organized to help the Committee established under Article 12 of the EU Copyright Directive evaluate the […]
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Report about WIPO conference
How does the work of WIPO – the World Intellectual Property Organisation – affect the daily lives of the world’s six billion plus consumers? Is WIPO’s mission and work inherently exclusive, benefiting only the richer countries and consumers and harming the poor? Does WIPO need a new mission to embrace new information technologies and to […]
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Civil society answers to DRM consultation
In response to an informal consultation by the European Commission on a report on the future of Digital Rights Management (DRM), several digital rights organisations have sent in statements. The report was prepared by a High Level Group consisting of companies and industry groups. As user representative only the European Consumers Union (BEUC) was invited […]
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1 million entries in Wikipedia
On 17 September 2004, the experimental free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia reached 1 million (approved) entries. Every internet user can write entries, and suggest improvements for any other entry. This idea has proven extremely viable in the last 4 years. Wikipedia now provides information in 100 languages, 14 of which offer more than 10.000 articles each. […]
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