La Quadrature du Net sent this letter to the members of the IMCO and ECON committees of the European Parliament to urge them to ask the following questions to Mr. Michel Barnier, Commissioner-designate for the…
La Quadrature du Net sent this letter to the members of the IMCO and ECON committees of the European Parliament to urge them to ask the following questions to Mr. Michel Barnier, Commissioner-designate for the…
La Quadrature du Net has submitted its response to the European Commission’s consultation regarding “Online Creative Content”. La Quadrature calls on the Commission to reconsider the EU’s coercive and repressive copyright policies, while encouraging it…
The European Commission has launched a consultation regarding the future of creative content online.
This move is a first step towards legislative action at the EU level, and the consultation could shape the nature of the…
Last week (December 14th-18th), the World Intellectual Property Organization’s standing committee on copyright and related rights (SCCR) was considering, among other thingsFor the full agenda, see http://keionline.org/node/721, a proposal by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay for…
The Obama administration announced Tuesday it supports loosening international copyright protections to enable cross-border distribution of special-format reading materials for the blind, a move that puts it at odds with nearly all of U.S. industry.…
All sanctioning power (ie. disconnecting internet users) has been removed from the HADOPI.
Brussels, Feb.
Paris, Jan 26th – The European Parliament’s committee for legal affairs (JURI) voted the Medina report on Copyright last week. This report goes against its initial objective of responding to the Green Paper on Copyright…
La Quadrature du Net (Squaring the Net) has submitted on 26 November 2008 its comments on the Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy published by the European Commission.
In its 30 April 2024 ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) shared its assessment of the legality of Hadopi’s massive surveillance system. The ruling is disappointing. The CJEU has considerably watered…