Julia Reda, German Pirate Party MEP, has presented a report promoting a series of measures to harmonise some aspects of copyright.

La Quadrature du Net supports this report and calls on citizens to get involved…

Paris, 26 February 2015 — Just as the Julia Reda report (GREEN/EFA – DE MEP) on copyright reform was being discussed this week in the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), another report was…

Paris, January 26, 2015 — Yesterday, MEP Julia Reda presented in the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) of the European Parliament a report on the harmonization of copyright in Europe. She tables modest but welcome proposals for…

Coordinated enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights—copyright, patents and trade marks—has been an elusive goal for Europe. […]
Undeterred, the European Commission is trying once again. This time, it is trying to avoid a similarly humiliating…

Depuis maintenant plusieurs années, la question du droit d’auteur et du fameux copyright est au centre de toutes les attentions, mais aussi de plusieurs lois et de nombreuses polémiques. Il était temps que nous fassions…

German music collecting society and anti-piracy group GEMA is reporting a legal victory over a popular Usenet service provider. GEMA says it has obtained a “ground breaking” court injunction which compels UseNeXT to prevent copyright…

Paris, 7 March 2014 — The European Commission’s Public Consultation on the review of EU copyright rules closed on 5 March 2014 (LQDN’s answer). It is now essential for the Commission to publish as soon…

[…]The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s (NMMC) e-library project has failed to take off, since its inauguration […] in December 2012.[…] If sources are to be believed, NMMC’s failure to acquire permission for copyrights from the…

Paris, 14 February 2014 — The European Commission’s public consultation on copyright reform is open until 5 March [The European Commission extended the deadline by a month]. This consultation represents an important opportunity for European citizens…