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Deutsch: Urheberrecht: ICANN will bei der Verhängung von Netzsperren kollabori...

During its 43rd international meeting that took place in San José, Costa Rica between 11 and 16 March 2012, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) expressed its intention to increase its cooperation with global law enforcement agencies and governments, to combat copyright infringements.

There are 22 registries containing domain names registered in a top-level domain and over 700 registrars accredited by ICANN.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Zur Urheberrechtsreform

EDRi presentation to ALDE Group Meeting on 7 March 2012

In this short presentation, I will briefly address two points. Firstly, the need to soberly assess the very difficult position we currently find ourselves in and, secondly, the dangers of failing to learn from past mistakes and endangering the openness of the Internet - its core asset that gives it the societal and economic benefits that we all now take for granted.

According to Commissioner Neelie Kroes, "citizens increasingly hear the word copyright and hate what is behind it.

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Deutsch: Europa diskutiert ACTA

Several debates on ACTA are going around in several European countries these days. We would present in this article two events where EDRi participated in the past week in Brussles and Helsinki.

A Policy Forum on ACTA was organized in Brussels on 6 March 2012 by the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in cooperation with IBBT-SMIT.

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Deutsch: Britisches Berufungsgericht bestätigt Digital Economy Act

The Court of Appeal has recently rejected the claims made by the two UK ISPs, BT and TalkTalk, that the Digital Economy Act (DEA) violates EU laws.

DEA requires ISPs to send warning letters to widespread file-sharers advising them that complaints have been made against them, and to provide lists of alleged infringements to music and film companies.

The ISPs brought the issue to the court arguing that DEA breached EU laws on data protection and privacy by restricting the customers' basic rights, was incompatible with provisions set out in the E-Com

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Introduction

Following the initial discussions in the European Parliament and the overwhelmingly negative workshop that was held on 1 March, ACTA is close to dead in Europe. What are the strategies for bringing it back to life and how will this impact on other similar initiatives? How can activists ensure that our great success so far can be maintained?

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Deutsch: Neue Netzsperren in immer mehr EU-Ländern

More and more cases were won in court by rightsholders against file-sharing platforms in the past weeks, but the blocking habits of the ISPs are starting to show their limits.

The UK High Court ruled on 20 February 2012 that the operators of The Pirate Bay (TPB) and its users are both guilty of infringing the copyright of rights holders in a case brought by major recording companies including Sony, EMI and Warner. Mr Justice Arnold said that the operators had the ability to prevent illegal file-sharing but did not do so.

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Deutsch: ACTA & die Entscheidungen zu Netlog und Scarlet/Sabam – was wir ...

There has been a great degree of noise around the recent Netlog/Sabam ruling from the European Court of Justice and what this may prove or disprove about ACTA. This article will seek to separate fact from fiction.

In both cases, Sabam had asked for an injunction requiring suspicionless and open-ended filtering of citizens' use of Internet services (web hosting for Netlog and peer-to-peer networks for Scarlet), paid for by the Internet service provider.

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Deutsch: Häufig gestellte Fragen zur Vorlage des ACTA-Abkommens beim Europäis...

Following the recent decision of the European Commission to refer the draft Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to the European Court of Justice, Access and EDRi have prepared this short FAQ to explain this process.