São Paulo, 25 April 2014 — Under the influence by governments and corporations, the final outcome document of the NETmundial forum became a weak, toothless and disappointing text. Despite the Brazilian president’s courageous speeches, NETmundial…
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Singapore’s Ministry of Law has decided that a “three strikes” regime for online copyright infringement is too intrusive for Internet users, and has excluded such an approach from consultations over takedown mechanisms.
The consultation, described in…
For years now, Internet users have accepted the risk of files and content they share through various online services being subject to takedown requests based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and/or content-matching…
[…] As with all filters, however, there are false positives. TorrentFreak, for example, is often categorized as a file-sharing site, and blocked to prevent copyright infringement or other associated “threats”.
Apparently this is also happening at…
The European Union’s highest court said on Thursday that Internet service providers may have to block access to websites that infringe copyrights. […]
UPC argued that it shouldn’t be responsible for policing copyrights on a site…
[…] It took way too many years to get those [Feynman Lectures on Physics] lectures online after (you guessed it) a fight over copyrights. However, online the lectures went and now it appears that…
Law professor, Creative Commons co-founder and advocate for copyright reform Lawrence Lessig has agreed to receive damages from an Australian music label. Without considering fair use Liberation wrongly had some of Lessig’s work removed from…
City workers in Paris have been instructed to remove political messages from street art this week, including several paintings protesting against local anti-piracy law ‘Hadopi’. The irony of the situation is that an artist’s…
Hamburg, 26 December 2013 — La Quadrature du Net’s staff, supporters and volunteers will build a common space for cosyness and strategic thinking at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress (30C3) in Hamburg, from Dec 27th…
File-hosting service RapidGator has had nearly all of its search results wiped from Google, including many clearly non-infringing pages. The URLs in question were removed by the search engine after a DMCA notice from several…