IPR Enforcement

The European Union's IPR Enforcement directive is being reviewed in 2011. The review takes up where the Telecoms Package left off, and is known to be looking into ways of making ISPs liable for copyrighted content, and possibly some form of EU-wide 3-strikes agreement. It is driven by the French Commissioner for the Internal Market, Michel Barnier.

Thus, IPR - and copyright - enforcement remains at the head of the political agenda.

This section will monitor the review and other aspects of EU policy which relate to IPR and copyright enforcement. It will also log industry moves which stand to influence the policy agendaand seek to understand in what ways European IPR enforcement policy could change or evolve.

E-commerce directive – EU Commission gives notice of action

Monica Horten

Published on 09 December 2011

Report on European Parliament seminar: 'Self-regulation - should online companies police the Internet'

A sneak preview of the European Commission’s plans for the E-commerce directive was given at a European Parliament seminar this week. Although the legislation itself will remain unchanged, the Commission does plan a series of non-legislative initiatives which will address the role of ISPs in taking down content from the Internet, in particular for copyright enforcement. The Commission says that it has no political direction on what it should do, although that is yet to be seen.

IPRED alert – LVMH takes pop shot at ISPs

Monica Horten

Published on 27 October 2011

Bags- to-bubbly manufacturer LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) is lobbying the European Commission for amendments to EU law which will radically threaten the open Internet as we know it. It’s a thinly-veiled variant on what other rights-holders tried to do with the Telecoms Package.

EU chief who caricatures users to lead new 3-strikes talks

Monica Horten

Published on 23 June 2011

The EU wants more talks with ISPs and Google about 'new ways to enforce copyright'.

After the failed Stakeholder Dialogue, the European Commission now wants to re-start ISP-rightsholder talks under a new chair-person. Robert Madelin, director general for Information Society and Media, has taken over the baton from Margot Frohlinger, head of copyright and IP at DG Markt. The talks will concern copyright enforcement on the Internet. They appear to include Google as well as

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