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Monika Ermert, pour Intellectual Property Watch Le Conseil de l’Europe examine actuellement la possibilité d’élaborer une convention destinée à protéger les signaux de radiodiffusion contre le piratage. L’organisation prendrait alors le relai des négociations de l’Organisation mondiale de la propriété…
By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch The Council of Europe is deliberating on whether to negotiate a convention to protect broadcasters’ signals against piracy and thereby take up the issue from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) where negotiations…
By William New BRUSSELS – European publishers and copyright holders have a friend in European Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding, which she reinforced last week in describing efforts to push through a new bill on digital publishing copyrights. At the…
By Bruce Gain for Intellectual Property Watch
Legal experts and consumer rights groups are questioning the feasibility of measures described in an anti-piracy pact that French media groups, government officials, and Internet service providers (ISPs) announced on 23 November.
ISPs also dispute the veracity of media reports that have since claimed that access providers will begin to actively monitor and block peer-to-peer file exchanges in France.
The anti-piracy agreement describes a number of possible measures that could prevent illegal distribution of copyright-protected digital media in France.
By David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch The European Union has taken steps to ratify a 2005 decision by the World Trade Organization designed to ensure that intellectual property does not limit access to medicines in developing countries. Peter Mandelson,…
By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch The European Commission’s is expected to publish by year’s end a communication on creative content online that will address how to improve the competitiveness of European online content production and distribution industry,…
By David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch BRUSSELS – Intellectual property rules should be reshaped to ensure that they do not hinder developing countries from gaining access to technology considered vital for addressing climate change, the European Parliament has declared.…
par David Cronin pour Intellectual Property Watch Les gouvernements de l’Union européenne (UE) ont approuvé les grandes lignes d’un système de règlement des litiges qui sera appliqué dans l’ensemble des 27 Etats membres de l’Union. Le 22 novembre 2007, les…
Por David Cronin para Intellectual Property Watch El jueves pasado los gobiernos de la Unión Europea llegaron a un acuerdo sobre los principales componentes de un sistema de litigios relativos a patentes que se aplicará en los 27 países del…
By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch
French record labels and Internet service providers (ISPs) have agreed on a ground-breaking plan to fight online music piracy. Among other things, the 23 November memorandum of understanding requires Internet access providers to experiment with filters to block infringing files.
Making ISPs shoulder more responsibility for copyright violations on their networks while leaving intact their immunity from liability for content for which they are "mere conduits" represents a sea-change in the interpretation of the European Union E-Commerce Directive, said attorney Winston Maxwell of Hogan & Hartson.