copyright
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Open Rights Group Newsletter 3 April 2019
3 April 2019 — Open Rights Group Open Rights Group has announced ORGCon is back on 13 July 2019 with Edward Snowden as our keynote speaker! From the use of data in the democratic process to the impact of algorithms on free expression, we’ll be covering all things digital at our London conference. Early bird tickets are Continue reading
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A dark day for the Internet
Yesterday, the European Parliament held the final vote on the controversial EU Copyright Directive, which is one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation in European history. The final vote approved Articles 11 (Link Tax) and 13 (mandatory content filtering) of the Copyright Directive, in a vote of 348 to 274. Continue reading
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The Internet is Facing a Catastrophe For Free Expression and Competition: You Could Tip The Balance By Cory Doctorow
The new EU Copyright Directive is progressing at an alarming rate. This week, the EU is asking its member-states to approve new negotiating positions for the final language. Once they get it, they’re planning to hold a final vote before pushing this drastic, radical new law into 28 countries and 500,000,000 people. Continue reading
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Stand up against censoring copyright laws!
The message is clear: The Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive is a broken disastrous proposal. It contains a plan for licensing fees for sharing news links which would result in weakening the foundation of the Web, a loss of media diversity and harm acess to information across Europe. Continue reading
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Participate in Copyright Week with us!
Copyright law has now been captured by major media interests all over the world. That’s why digital rights organisations in Brazil, Pakistan, Canada and Austria all fight to make it better for everyone: accessible and open, not just owned by a few huge corporations. Continue reading
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Update on Save the Link Campaign
A leak from the European Council1 has revealed that Germany, the largest and most powerful member of the EU, is adding its voice to criticism of the controversial mass content filtering proposal we’ve been fighting together. Article 13 of the European Commission’s proposed Copyright Directive would put bots — automated censorship mechanisms — in charge… Continue reading
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‘It Comes Down to Monopoly Control of the Aftermarket’
Janine Jackson: Copyright and farmers don’t generally appear in the same story. They do now, thanks to the argument, recently reiterated by agricultural machine maker John Deere, that farmers shouldn’t be able to independently access the operating software in their tractors, for example, because they don’t own that part, they just license it. As our… Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (7/7)
31 October 2016 — TRNN Professor Peter Drahos says a global effort will be needed to keep knowledge in the public domain Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (5/7)
Professor Peter Drahos explains the TRIPS Agreement gave multinational corporate owners of intellectual property rights a global form of private taxing power (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (6/7)
Professor Peter Drahos says the story of the trade agreement is not just a story of power, it’s also a story of clever psychology Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (4/7)
The globalization of intellectual property rights will not improve trade, competition, or the livelihood of workers; it leads to underdevelopment, says professor Peter Drahos (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (2/7)
The architects of this trade agreement saw great profit from controlling the building blocks of the biological and digital technologies of the future, says professor Peter Drahos Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (1/7)
24 October 2016 — TRNN In this 7 part series, Professor Peter Drahos explains how multinationals from US, Europe, and Japan collaborated to create a global platform for multinationals to privatize knowledge Continue reading
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BREAKING: The Link Tax is Officially on its Way
The EU Commission has officially released some of the worst copyright laws in the world, including unprecedented new Link Tax powers for publishing giants. Earlier today, the Commission presented these new rules to the world. Over the past few weeks, leaks suggested the rules were worse than originally feared,3 and today’s announcement proved it. We… Continue reading
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Lied to over Link Tax
Documents leaked this morning1 prove that the EU Commission misled the public earlier this week when it tweeted, “The @EU_Commission does not have any plans to tax hyperlinks.” You were lied to. We were lied to. The public was lied to. Continue reading
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For NYT, Fair Use Depends on Who's Doing the Using
Critics do not generally need to seek permission nor pay royalties for quotations from the works they criticize—the “fair use” provision in copyright law authorizes such quotes for the purposes of commentary and criticism. But the Times, it seems, has a very restrictive view of fair use when it comes to its own material. Continue reading
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Linking to free stuff is not piracy, EU rules
Managing a site with links to freely available copyrighted content does not amount to online piracy, an EU court has ruled. The justices advised their Swedish colleagues, who are reviewing a journalists’ lawsuit against a link-hosting website. Continue reading
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Copyright Maximalists Harm Authors
Copyright maximalists want all sorts of new laws to “help authors get paid”. Well, I’m a published author, and all their efforts to “help” cost me money. Even if we strictly limit the argument to printed books, copyright maximalists still only succeed in harming authors and publishers. This is how. Continue reading
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WordPress.com Stands Up For Its Users, Goes to Court to Challenge DMCA Abuse
The abuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s notice-and-takedown process to silence lawful speech is well-documented and all too common. Far less common, though, is a service provider that is willing to team up with its users to challenge that abuse in court. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 