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UKIPO: Copyright Owners And Internet Providers, Please Regulate Yourselves!
by Monika Emert
18 March 2009
Monica Horten, an IP policy expert at the University of Westminster, analysed the British proposal and warned that the “use of network filtering” that is envisaged “has the potential to result in some form of censorship by the back door.”