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EDRi's guide on how to answer the IPRED consultation
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDRi Leitfaden zur Konsultation zum Urheberrecht | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.4_EDRi_Leitfaden_zur_Konsultation_zum_Urheberrecht?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130304] This is just a quick warning that you have until 30 March 2013 if you want to answer to the public consultation on the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED). The directive has been in force since 2004 and requires […]
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European copyright scholars: hyperlinking is not public communication
The Swedish Court of Appeal has referred to ECJ (European Court of Justice) a case involving the question of whether publishing a hyperlink to content can be considered a communication to the public and, implicitly, a breach of the creator’s copyright (in case the hyperlink is published without the author’s consent), under the European law. […]
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The British Phonographic Industry pushes ISPs to block more sites
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) continues its offensive against torrent websites that are accused of copyright infringement. Based on the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act from 1998, the group obtained in 2012, from the High Court, the blocking of Newzbin2 and The Pirate Bay through several big UK ISPs and in October 2012, asked again […]
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European domain names under siege
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Domainnamen unter Druck | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_Europaeische_Domainnamen_unter_Druck?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] On 26 November 2012, 132 or 133 domain names were seized by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE) in collaboration with the Europol and national law enforcement authorities. The seized domains were supposed to have illegally sold counterfeit […]
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Chisugate: Copyright blackmail in Finland
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Chisugate: Copyright-Erpressung in Finnland | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_Chisugate_Copyright-Erpressung_in_Finnland?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] In the spring of 2012, in Finland, the father of a young girl received what amounted to a blackmail letter from a copyright lawyer. The letter demanded the payment of 600 Euros as damages for having distributed copyright-protected music recordings. The letter […]
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DP Regulation to accidentally introduce voluntary “three strikes”?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bringt uns die Datenschutz-Verordnung unabsichtlich “Three Strikes”? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_Bringt_uns_die_Datenschutz-Verordnung_unabsichtlich_Three_Strikes?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] The European Commission proposed a new framework for protection of personal data in the EU earlier this year. While it has been the subject of probably more lobbying than any other piece of legislation in this history of modern […]
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The Pirate Bay remains blocked in Finland
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [„The Pirate Bay“ bleibt in Finnland weiterhin gesperrt | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.21_The_Pirate_Bay_bleibt_in_Finnland_weiterhin_gesperrt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] The Pirate Bay (TPB) remains blocked in Finland as the Finnish Supreme Court has rejected ISP Elisa’s request to hear its appeal in the case filed by the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center (CIAPC) in May 2011. In […]
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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 […]
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Portugal: File-sharing for personal use is not infringing the law
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Portugal: Filesharing für private Zwecke verstößt nicht gegen das Gesetz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_Portugal_Filesharing_fuer_private_Zwecke_verstoesst_nicht_gegen_das_Gesetz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] The Portuguese prosecutors division DIAP (Department of Investigations and Criminal Acts) have recently ruled against ACAPOR (the Association of Audiovisual Commerce of Cultural Works and Entertainment of Portugal) in a case the latter initiated in 2011 […]
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Ancillary copyright madness in Germany and France
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Leistungsschutzwahn in Deutschland und Frankreich | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_Leistungsschutzwahn_in_Deutschland_und_Frankreich?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20121008] On 29 August 2012, the German government decided to pass a draft legislative proposal for ancillary copyright (so-called “Leistungsschutzrecht”) aimed at “protecting” publishing houses’ online content from being quoted in news aggregation sites and on search engines. This draft law would […]
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The Netherlands against ACTA in all its forms
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederlande gegen ACTA in jeder Form | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_Niederlande_gegen_ACTA_in_jeder_Form?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20121008] In response to an open letter sent by EDRi-member Bits of Freedom (BoF), the Dutch government has confirmed that it opposes any controversial ACTA-provisions in whatever form. This confirmation was provoked by the news, only six days after ACTA was […]
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First victim of French 3 strikes law is found guilty for negligence
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Erstes Opfer des Three-Strikes-Gesetzes in Frankreich | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_Erstes_Opfer_des_Three-Strikes-Gesetzes_in_Frankreich?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20121008] After almost two years since the 3-strikes law has entered into force in France, the first Internet user was sentenced by the court to a 150 euro fine for negligence for not using the Internet access security measures and because […]
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