Anti-sharing directive - IPRED

IPRED is a European directive which harmonises civil (and soon, penal) sanctions at the EU level for any kind of “intellectual property” infringement: copyright, patents, trademarks and design, plant breeders rights, etc. It organises the repression against sharers, remixers, developers, hackers and inventors of all kinds.

The EU Commission wants to modify IPRED to “adapt” it to the digital environment. This means expanding the war on sharing on the Internet, in direct continuation of ACTA's goals. IPRED calls for large scale filtering of the Internet to thwart file sharing. Search engines, hosting services, websites and Internet access providers would be forced to control the communications of Internet users.

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Timeline

Future

  • 2012 - EU Commission presents proposal for a reform of IPRED

Past

Gallo Report

The Gallo report is a report on enhancing the enforcement of “intellectual property” rights in the internal market, adopted by the European Parliament in September 2010. It calls on the Commission to focus on the Internet when revising IPRED.

The report is a long series of mixups and misconceptions, mixing up online non-commercial file sharing with the counterfeiting of physical goods, confusing drug patent and trademark infringement with the trade of fake drugs, among other things.

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