On September 29th, 2010, the Committee of Ministers at the Council of Europe (CoE) adopted a declaration on network neutralityFull text of the declaration: https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1678287. The declaration is overall a very good news for the…
ACTA AS A BULLYING WEAPON FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRIES
By putting legal and monetary pressure on Internet service providers (in a most subtler way than in previous versions of the text), ACTA will give the music…
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Final negotiations for a controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta) have been completed in Tokyo, with EU sources insisting that the draft accord will not restrict the freedoms of EU citizens or…
A l’issue du onzième cycle de négociations, qui avait lieu à Tokyo à la fin du mois de septembre, les pays […] ont livré une version consolidée (pdf) de l’accord, qui pourrait être la dernière…
Alors que les premiers mails d’avertissements de l’Hadopi sont partis le 1er octobre, les internautes rivalisent d’ingéniosité pour contourner la loi
Cédric est fier « d’avoir trouvé un moyen légal de télécharger illégalement. C’est la preuve…
For three years, technology and telecommunications companies have watched nervously from the sidelines as the United States and nearly a dozen trading partners have negotiated a trade agreement that critics feared could undermine all sorts…
Alors que les premiers courriels d’avertissement aux pirates commencent à être envoyés, la critique de la Haute autorité pour la diffusion des oeuvres et la protection des droits sur internet (Hadopi) ne semble pas faiblir.…
Paris, October 6th, 2010 – The ACTA negotiators have just released a near-final version of this anti-counterfeiting agreement. It is still very dangerous. The release of this text should not give the illusion of transparency…
[…] The resolution points out that access to information is a key point in helping to build a modern, information-based nation, and ACTA is about removing access to information and knowledge. They’re not against ACTA…
Paris, October 4th 2010 – The spokesperson for the Trade European Commissioner has announced Saturday October 2nd, that all parties have reached an agreement on ACTA. This is one more example of how the…