Introduces new “blueprint” for Intellectual Property Rights to “boost creativity and innovation.” Strategy involves preventing access to counterfeit goods and services online while at the same increasing and simplifying access to legitimate alternatives. […]
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Paris, May 24th, 2011 – The “eG8 forum” is a smokescreen behind which hides an alarming alliance of governments attempting to control the Internet and a few corporations making profits from restricting online freedomsEvery plenary…
Paris, May 23rd, 2011 – Tomorrow, the EU Commission will release its “intellectual property rights strategy” [Update: See the IPR strategy on the Commission’s website]. Unsurprisingly, leaks show that the Commission will call for preventing…
Paris, May 20th, 2011 – A detailed analysis of exchanges between the French President and his former Minister of Foreign Affairs on G8 related matters appears in tomorrow’s edition of the French magazine Marianne. La…
Paris, May 17th, 2011 – Next week, Nicolas Sarkozy will be convening the “eG8 forum”, just two days ahead of a G8 summit that will focus on Internet policy. Disguised as a pseudo-consultative process, this…
Jeremie Zimmermann from La Quadrature du Net sez,
As a host of the G8, France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy wants to step up centralized control over the Internet. He has convened world leaders to a summit aimed…
Paris, May 11th, 2011 – Today, the European Parliament adopted a bill planning out EU spectrum policy for the years to come, including very important amendments in favor of an open access to airwaves. By…
What if Internet users were more than just users? Given the possibility of taking up the airwaves, they could become not just content providers, but also access providers. We would then be more than mere…
[…] Un ralentissement qui n’est que la partie immergée de la guerre que se livrent les fournisseurs d’accès à Internet et le géant Google.[…]
“Nous sommes face à un bras de fer entre opérateurs”, confirme Edouard…
Aux Etats-Unis, la FCC a été entendue par un groupe de parlementaires de la Chambre des représentants. Julius Genachowski, le président de la Federal Communications Commission a plaidé pour la neutralité des réseaux (fixes et…