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New EU recommendation includes the right of reply in the online media
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Parliament adopted on 12 December 2006, at its second reading, a recommendation on the protection of minors and human dignity and on the right of reply in relation to the competitiveness of the European audiovisual and online information services industry. The right of reply in […]
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ENDitorial: AVMS Directive : TV or not TV – that is the question
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The discussions on the new Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS) are continuing unabated within the European Union’s institutions. With regards to Internet media, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament are moving in the same direction. The question is how far. The new Directive […]
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Google accused in Italy over shock video
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A recent shock video published at the end of November on YouTube, the free video hosting service now owned by Google, has triggered extensive reactions in Italy. The video was showing a group of four Italian teenagers attacking a 17-year-old disabled boy in a classroom in Turin. […]
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French ISPs need to block websites
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Appeal Court in Paris has decided that the French ISPs need to block the access to website AAARGH, considered as revisionist by the court. This decision was made even though the judges admitted that the measures would be imperfect and the site would still be accessible […]
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Discussion during IGF against Internet content control
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The first global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was organized by United Nations in Athens between 30 October and 2 November 2006. The forum has shown a strong and large opposition to Internet blocking and filtering, putting under pressure repressive governments such as China. The three sessions devoted […]
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Hungary: Act on classified information reloaded
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At the end of July 2006, the Office of the Hungarian Prime Minister released their legislative plans for the Autumn comprising the Act on classified information. Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) have filed two requests inquiring about the details of the draft, but the PM’s Office refused […]
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TOR servers seized in Germany
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The public prosecutor’s office of Konstanz, Germany raided, during the last weekend some computing centres and seized several servers that were running copies of TOR, a well known software used for the anonymisation of the Internet usage. The action was related to a child pornography case, and, […]
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EU Audiovisual Directive:Budapest Declaration for Freedom of the Internet
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) European media scholars criticized a European Commission proposal for a new EU Directive on Audiovisual Media Services for its vague regulatory concept of ‘non-linear audiovisual services’ that would also affect the Internet. The criticism was expressed in the “Budapest Declaration for Freedom of the Internet” drafted by […]
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German Minister of Justice wants limits to the anonymiser service
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The German anonymization program An.On, developed by the University of Dresden and the regional data protection authority of Schleswig Holstein (ULD), is enabling its users to surf anonymously via a Java-webproxy. The program has been heavily criticized by the Minister of Justice of the German federal state […]
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Creative Communities and Consumers in TACD Conference
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) TACD (Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogues) organized a conference under the title “New Relationships Between Creative Communities and Consumers” in Paris on 19-20 June 2006. Participants represented a wide range of interests, including both artists’ and consumers’ organizations, but also WIPO and the European Commission. Several panels explored problems […]
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Private hotlines questioned at EC Safer Internet Forum
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) With its newly adopted Communication on a ‘comprehensive EU strategy to promote and safeguard the rights of the child’, the Commission intends to pursue its global action on children’s rights. One may however wonder whether the strategy for fighting child porn on the Internet, which mostly relies […]
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German experts think search engines should be monitored
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) During the workshop “The Rising Power of Search-Engines on the Internet: Impacts on Users, Media Policy, and Media Business” that took place in Berlin on 26-27 June 2006, the experts expressed the opinion that the search engines should be more regulated. Marcel Machill, a lecturer in journalism […]
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