Six Bills reforming Internet copyright proposed through social media
The Washington, DC-based public interest group Public Knowledge has launched an initiative urging social media users to lobby for the adoption of reforms to copyright on the Internet. Via the online lobbying platform Internet Blueprint, support is sought for six pending legislative bills: “Strengthening Fair Use Act” – which seeks to eliminate forced repayment of ... Read the full post ...
Council of Europe passes Internet governance strategy
In passing a comprehensive Internet Governance Strategy, the Council of Europe has laid claim to a front runner position in the human rights dialogue for the internet (source: IP Watch) ... Read the full post ...
Blocking of Internet traffic common in Europe – EU report
Operators and internet service providers in Europe resort mostly to blocking voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) and peer-to-peer traffics to guard the security of and prevent congestion on their networks, according to a preliminary report from the European Union telecommunications regulator, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (source: IP Watch) ... Read the full post ...
Australia remains under surveillance as an “Enemy of the Internet”
In its just-published 2011 report on “The Enemies of the Internet“, Reporters Without Borders lists Australia as a country “under surveillance” due to it readiness to create a repressive Internet filtering system which would be managed in a non-transparent manner by a government agency based on very broad criteria. ... Read the full post ...
US rejects ICANN’s bid to retain control of Internet names
The US government has cancelled its Request for Proposal (RFP) to run the functions of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), on the basis that it “received no proposals that met the requirements requested by the global community”. In doing so, it has issued a clear rejection to the bid by the current contractor, the ... Read the full post ...
Berlin court rules Facebook violates user rights
IP Watch reports that the District Court of Berlin, Germany, has ruled that Facebook user rights were violated by several parts of social media site Facebook’s general terms and conditions and by its “friendfinder” feature. With regard to copyright law, the automatic worldwide exploitation right granted by users clicking off the terms and conditions was ... Read the full post ...
Cybersquatting cases reach record numbers
A record 2,764 cybersquatting cases covering 4,781 domain names were filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center in 2011. These filings, made under the ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), represent an increase of 2.5% and 9.4%, respectively, over the previous highest levels in 2010 and 2009, WIPO reported. ... Read the full post ...
Record companies win first round v The Pirate Bay in the UK
In a decision handed down by Mr Justice Arnold on 20 February 2012, the High Court finds that UK users of The Pirate Bay website are liable for copyright infringement for communicating copyrighted sound recordings to the public and that the operators of The Pirate Bay authorise infringements of copyright by its users and are ... Read the full post ...
Google’s new privacy policies break EU laws
Although Google claims its new Privacy Policy helps simplify privacy, a French privacy authority claims otherwise and specifically that the new Privacy Policy “makes it impossible to understand which purposes, personal data, recipients or access rights are relevant to the use of a specific service. As such, Google’s new policy fails to meet the requirements of the European ... Read the full post ...
White House Proposes ‘Bill of Rights’ for the Internet
The White House has released proposals for a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights for the Internet. The draft Bill of Rights, which would be enforceable by the Federal Trade Commission, provides US consumers with the following rights: Individual control – to exercise control over what personal data companies collect from them and how they use it ... Read the full post ...
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