Italy: Draft Regulation on Copyright Protection on Electronic. Legal analysis 01 Oct 2013 In this analysis, ARTICLE 19 examines the Italian Draft Regulation on Copyright Protection on Electronic Communication Networks (Draft Regulation), which was published by the Italian Communication Authority (AGCOM) on 25 July 2013.
It seeks to contribute to the public consultation, which was opened to evaluate the proposed provisions of the Draft. Our analysis is based on international freedom of expression standards and the best practices in this area. El Congreso da luz verde a la reforma de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual con el rechazo de la oposición. MADRID, 22 Jul.
Police & FACT Claim Big Successes in UK Anti-Piracy Drive. City of London Police and Hollywood's Federation Against Copyright Theft are claiming big results in a new government IP crime report.
PIPCU say they have suspended 2,359 UK domains and cut off payment to 19 sites, with FACT claiming the closure of 117 pirate sites and the arrest of seven release group members in the past 12 months. In recent times the UK has become one of the most unfriendly countries in the world when it comes to operating a file-sharing site. Efforts by the movie industry and their local proxies have restricted opportunities, and the addition of government assistance since the summer of 2013 has only made things more claustrophobic. The two main players on this front are FACT, the Hollywood-affiliated Federation Against Copyright Theft and PIPCU, the City of London’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit. MP3, DVD and CD Copying is Now Legal in The UK (For Some) Soon, UK citizens are free to copy MP3s, CDs and DVDs for personal use.
The copyright law revisions, which partially went into effect this month, legalizes this common form of copying. Major changes already went into effect for the disabled, who can now copy and publish copyrighted works if there's no commercial alternative. Most people in the UK may not have realized it, but every time they backed up an MP3 or made a copy of a CD or DVD for personal use, they were breaking the law. Starting today this is no longer the case for the disabled, thanks to a revision of copyright law that just went into effect. Disabled citizens can now copy and publish copyrighted material if there’s no commercial alternative available. “Disabled people and disability groups can now make accessible copies of copyright material (eg music, film, books) when no commercial alternative exists,” the Government announced today.
España ya censura webs igual que China - Blogs de Tecnozone. Esta semana los principales operadores de telecomunicaciones han bloqueado por orden judicial una serie de portales relacionados con descargas y enlaces peer to peer.
Una medida polémica que llevan años persiguiendo las sociedades de gestión de derechos de autor para erradicar la mal llamada piratería. UK Police Shutdown File-Host Search Engine FileCrop. Continuing its attacks on file-sharing-related domains, the UK Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit has shut down its very first search engine.
Following an earlier BPI request for it to be blocked by the country's ISPs, in the past few hours file-host search site FileCrop was shuttered as part of a PIPCU investigation. Following its launch in the last quarter of 2013, City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has been working hard to disrupt the activities of sites in the file-sharing arena. This Is How The UK Piracy Warnings Will Work. Last week news broke that UK ISPs are teaming up with copyright holders to notify Internet subscribers caught sharing pirated material.
The plan has been widely covered in the media, but unfortunately fact and fiction are often intertwined. So how scary are these piracy warnings really? Let's find out. In an effort to curb online piracy, the movie and music industries have reached an agreement with the UK’s leading ISPs to send warnings to alleged copyright infringers.
Music Industry Demands Pirate Bay Blockade in France. The major record labels continue their efforts to drive The Pirate Bay underground with France being the next in line.
A local music industry group has informed several ISPs that it has requested a court blocking injunction against the popular torrent site. In addition, more than a hundred Pirate Bay proxies are also being targeted. Hadopi Recommends Super Injunctions to Keep Pirate Content Down. Today, French anti-piracy agency HADOPI handed the government a long-awaited report on the development of "operational tools" for dealing with online piracy.
Several key areas are outlined, including the creation of a new type of takedown notice designed not only to take content offline, but keep it offline for up to six months. For an extended period anti-piracy agency HADOPI stayed in the news due to its responsibility for maintaining France’s controversial three-strikes anti-piracy scheme. While many of the big headlines have subsided, the authority is still tasked with dealing with an issue that simply refuses to go away. Last July, Aurélie Filippetti, Minister of Culture and Communication, tasked Mireille Imbert-Quaretta, president of the Commission for Protection of Rights, to find solutions against large scale commerical piracy online, i.e against the sites and services offering music and movies for free. The ACI Adam and UPC Telekabel judgments: time to legalise file-sharing? From Joao Quintais and Christina Angelopoulos comes the following note, with a timely reminder concerning the forthcoming Information Influx event.
They write: In Case C-435/12 ACI Adam BV and Others the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the private use copying exemption allowed under Articles 5(2)(b) and 5(5) of Directive 2001/29 (the InfoSoc Directive) is limited to reproductions made from lawful sources. La Ley de Propiedad Intelectual resucita el movimiento antiSGAE. Faltando a la transparencia en los derechos de autor. (Artículo publicado en la edición de papel del diario El Mundo en fecha 15 de febrero de 2014). Si ante el rescate bancario Rajoy entonó en junio de 2012 que «España no es Uganda», durante la rueda de prensa tras el Consejo de Ministros en el que se ha aprobado el proyecto de reforma de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, el ministro Wert ha comentado que «España no puede ser Somalia en temas de piratería intelectual».
Víctor Domingo analiza Sin Complejos el proyecto de Ley de Propiedad Intelectual. Preguntas frecuentes sobre la nueva Ley de Propiedad Intelectual. Me he enterado de que aprobaron este viernes una nueva Ley de Propiedad Intelectual durísima, ¿ya está en vigor? No. Queda todo el trámite parlamentario, por lo que la entrada en vigor de estas modificaciones no es inminente. No obstante, todo indica que cuando se apruebe definitivamente el texto, no distará mucho del proyecto. El Gobierno ultima su infantería legal contra la piratería. Una ley durísima contra la piratería. Don’t Stop the Party: Copyright Issues Threaten Trinidad Carnival Fete « Global Voices. French court orders search firms to block pirate sites. 2 December 2013Last updated at 07:10 ET Certain sites that stream copyrighted content will be blocked A court in France has ordered Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to block 16 video-streaming sites from their search results.
Osservatorio censura. Italian Court Orders ISPs to Block Several Major Torrent Sites. In line with the entertainment industry's stance of making unauthorized content more difficult to find, a fresh batch of court orders has today targeted several of the world's leading torrent sites. In addition to indexers ExtraTorrent, 1337x, H33T and TorrentHound, unconfirmed reports suggest that Italian ISPs will have to block a whole range of IP addresses associated with The Pirate Bay, even ones not offering unauthorized content.
8 Ways WikiLeaks Cables About a Tiny Country Like Iceland Expose the Dark Depths of American Empire. View of the WikiLeaks homepage featuring its founder Julian Assange.Photo Credit: haak78 / Shutterstock.com October 9, 2013 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. As Chelsea Manning serves a 35-year sentence for the heinous crime of informing Americans about their government, an obscure milestone in her journey passes this autumn—the fifth anniversary of Iceland's financial collapse. Because Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg had traveled to Iceland, where they were lauded for publishing a loan portfolio detailing sketchy loans made by the collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing, Manning took an interest in the country.
“Iceland was out of viable options and was coming to the US for assistance. It was published in February 2010. Linking "facilitates" copyright infringement in the Netherlands. The application of copyright law to linking is an interesting and much debated topic at the moment. This is particularly so in the Netherlands it seems, where twice in the last few months courts have held that linking to content can constitute "publication" of that content (see here and here). This week, a Dutch maths teacher has been told by the Dutch courts that by providing links on his website to infringing pdf copies of answers to maths questions, he infringes copyright in the answers. The pdf copies had been illegally uploaded to the internet so it seems that the issue was not that linking to online material constitutes publication (as it was in the two above cases), but that linking to infringing content facilitates third party infringement (by the students who clicked on the links - presumably their infringing act would be to make local copies of the material?)
El Gobierno aborda hoy la futura reforma de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual. Italy: Draft Regulation on Copyright Protection on Electronic. El Govern redobla la lluita contra la pirateria digital. De nouvelles exceptions au copyright crispent les majors britanniques. Ian Hargreaves, un nom qui fait trembler dans les hautes sphères des entreprises culturelles : l'auteur du rapport commandé par le gouvernement britannique sur les exceptions au copyright se propose d'en augmenter le nombre. Et donc de multiplier les cas où le copyright ne s'appliquerait plus, de façon légale, pour certains usages. eflon, CC BY 2.0. Urheberrechtsdebatte in Österreich: Für wen lobbyiert eigentlich “Kunst hat Recht”?
Die Wikipedia definiert Astroturfing wie folgt: Der Begriff Astroturfing, auch Kunstrasenbewegung, bezeichnet [...] politische Public-Relations- und kommerzielle Werbeprojekte, die darauf abzielen, den Eindruck einer spontanen Graswurzelbewegung vorzutäuschen. 'Swedish anti-piracy and privacy laws clash' Sweden’s recently enacted anti-file sharing law will be rendered totally ineffectual when the government implements new rules on the storage of personal data next year, according to the head of a Swedish internet provider. “The government has made quite a blunder. IPRED is destined to fail,” said Bahnhof CEO Jon Karlung to the TT news agency, referring to the anti-piracy law which came into force on April 1st. The new law is based on the EU’s Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) and is meant to allow courts to force ISPs to release information about users to aid the investigation of copyright violations.
Last week, a draft of a proposed amendment to the law appeared was leaked from the Government Offices.