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SABAM vs Netlog – another important ruling for fundamental rights
SABAM (Société Belge des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs), the Belgian collecting society for music royalties, is in the spotlight again. A few months after the Scarlet/SABAM case, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has released a new decision on the legality of filtering systems on the Internet, this time with regard to […]
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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 […]
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Hadopi takes the final steps towards cutting Internet access
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Hadopi setzt letzten Schritt zur Sperre von Internetzugängen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.3_Hadopi_setzt_letzten_Schritt_zur_Sperre_von_Internetzugaengen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120221] French authority Hadopi announced on 13 February 2012 that its Commission for the Protection of Rights had sent the first complaints to court against Internet users for illegal downloading of files as the last stage in its three-strike […]
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10 European Commission myths about ACTA
1. This is only about large-scale infringements a. Criminal sanctions There is no minimum-level of infringement that could be criminalised by ACTA. It requires parties to, at least, criminalise infringements which are for direct economic advantage, direct commercial advantage, indirect economic advantage, indirect commercial advantage or “aiding and abetting” such an offence. In the absence […]
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ENDitorial: Copyright vs Public Domain-copyright as a barrier to culture?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Urheberrechte vs Gemeinfreiheit als Kulturhindernis? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_ENDitorial_Urheberrechte_vs_Gemeinfreiheit_als_Kulturhindernis?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] “The book, as a book, belongs to the author, but as thought it belongs — the word is not too big — to the human species. Any intelligent being has a right to it. If one of the two rights, […]
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The US pressure on Spain to censor the Internet has paid off
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Internetzensur: Einflussnahme der USA auf Spanien macht sich bezahlt | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Internetzensur_Einflussnahme_der_USA_auf_Spanien_macht_sich_bezahlt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] The US has continued to pressure Spain since 2008 to adopt measures against users allegedly illegally downloading copyrighted music and movies from file-sharing networks. And now this pressure has paid off; the Spanish Congress approved at the […]
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Online Distribution of Audiovisual Works: EDRi's answer to the EC
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi-Stellungnahme: Online-Vertrieb von audiovisuellen Werken | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.22_EDRi_Stellungnahme_Online_Vertrieb_von_audiovisuellen_Werken?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111116] Adapting the European policy to the digital environment would offer the audiovisual industry access to an even broader audience and would give the consumer greater access to cultural works. It is the opportunity to redefine a simple and harmonised framework. It […]
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ENDitorial: Copyright combinatronics
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Urheberrechts-Kombinatorik | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.22_ENDitorial_Urheberrechts_Kombinatorik?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111116] Although the creation of the single market has been the primary focus of the European Union for decades, it often seems that for every step forward it takes two back. In that respect it’s often rather interesting to look at the mathematics as they […]
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The European Commission encourages the digitisation of culture
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Kommission fördert Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.21_Europaeische_Kommission_foerdert_Digitalisierung_des_Kulturerbes?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111110] An EC Recommendation issued on 28 October 2011 is urging Member States to intensify their efforts and involve the private sector to help in digitising cultural material in order to improve the exposure and stocks of Europe’s digital library Europeana. […]
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ENDitorial: Belgian music industry acts to undermine copyright law
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Belgische Musikindustrie versucht Urheberrecht zu untergraben | www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.20_ENDitorial_Belgische_Musikindustrie_versucht_Urheberrecht_zu_untergraben?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111028] We have all heard the music industry make claims about the vast amount of “piracy” going on, such as the estimation that from 2008 to 2015, the music industry was going to lose an amount equivalent to the combined […]
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German politician caught in its own two-strike model trap
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutscher Politiker tappt in eigene 2-Strikes-Falle | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.19_Deutscher_Politiker_tappt_in_eigene_2-Strikes-Falle?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111011] Siegfried Kauder, Chairman of the Legal Committee of the German Parliament, who has recently announced a plan to introduce a two strike model for persistent allegedly illegal downloaders, was found himself to infringe copyright. The system proposed by Kauder includes […]
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ENDitorial: Countries start signing ACTA, preparatory docs still secret
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Partner unterzeichnen ACTA, zahlreiche Dokumente noch immer geheim | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.19_ENDitorial_Partner_unterzeichnen_ACTA_zahlreiche_Dokumente_noch_immer_geheim?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111011] Last weekend, some of the EU’s ACTA “partners” started the process of acceding to the Agreement (US, Canada, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, Japan and Morocco). Due to the controversial nature of the Agreement, this is happening in […]
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