Can Europe defend the Integrity of IP?
-Internet - Copyright - Politics - Breaking views-
Papers and Articles on Internet Policy
- IDP 2011 Proceedings: Copyright at a Policy Cross-Roads
- American University College of Law: Where Copyright Enforcement and Net Neutrality Collide
- Society for Computers and the Law (2009) Package in Transit
- Political Quarterly (2008) File-sharing, Filtering and the Spectre of the Automated Censor
- Computer Weekly(2009) The EU Telecoms Package explained
ACTA, SOPA & the EU - get the context
ACTA and SOPA have put Internet copyright into the mainstream news agenda. The Copyright Enforcement Enigma introduces you to this topic. It explains the history of copyright sanctions. It puts 3-strikes and blocking policies into context. And it unravels the strange story of how it all got mixed up in the Telecoms Package and Amendment 138. When you finish it, you will understand why the ISPs and fundamental rights are under attack! Click here to get it!
Christopher T. Marsden
Net Neutrality: towards a co-regulatory solution?
Bloomsbury Academic, 2010
Marsden's account of net neutrality and EU telecommunications law takes us up to and including the Second Reading of the Telecoms Package.
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Monica Horten reports that AT&T led this effort, that the economists’ studies predicting negative impacts of net neutrality was highlighted and that the rejected First Reading amendments were reworked as ‘compromises’ for the Second Reading, placing responsibility on ISPs only to report (self-regulated) restrictions on service:
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Horten explains that the intention of the Council was to weaken, if not to remove, Amendment 138/46:
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The Internet’s core values of openness and democracy have been established by accident and design. Horten states: By authorizing blocking practices, the Telecoms Package puts Europe on a path to a closed series of Internets. It puts at risk innovation, trade, and any policy goals to encourage cross-border trade. It puts at risk the European Union’s Information Society goals. And, it stands to chill democratic speech.
IP politics - news & views
- Barroso’s confusion: trade marks or trade committee?
- German 'shitstorm' brewing over Pirate Party school blocks
- EU Commission fires back at data protection chief
- ACTA would prematurely strangle debate, says civil liberties rapporteur
- Was News Corp privileged on IP policy?
- EU Commission re-sets clock for IP enforcement review
- ACTA: EU Parliament takes a step to the right
- Why Europe should worry about the Trans-Pacific Partnership
- European Parliament ACTA report: deal or no deal?
- Marielle Gallo tries to claw back ACTA
- It’s official: European Parliament told ‘Say no to ACTA’
- America ups the ante on ACTA – via the G8
- ACTA referral: has DG Trade lost the plot?
- UK’s email spy plan – what do you say, Mrs Reding?
- Hadopi – has it massaged the numbers?
- Barnier dreams of copyright consensus by 2013
- ACTA chief’s Senate gaffe: truth is an option
Internet Policy - read more
Laura Denardis Protocol Politics (Information Revolution and Global Politics Series)
Lilian Edwards and Charlotte Waede Law and the Internet
Becky Hogge Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia
David Leigh and Luke Harding WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy
Christopher T Marsden Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-regulatory Solution
Evgeny Morozov The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate The World
Milton L Mueller Networks and States (Information Revolution and Global Politics Series)
Milton L Mueller Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace
John Naughton A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet
Tim Wu The Master Switch
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