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Deutsch: RapidShare gewinnt einen weiteren Fall angeblicher Urheberrechtsverlet...

RapidShare, the Swiss based file-hosting service, won the appeal against the computer game distributor Atari Europe.

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Deutsch: Durchsetzungsrichtlinie bei IPR: Sperren, Filtern und Überwachen mitt...

Just before Christmas, the European Commission published its report on the application of the IPR Enforcement Directive.

The text, while written in fairly neutral terms, does subtly show the Commission's plans for the enforcement of intellectual property rights and the dangers that these hold for citizens' rights.

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Deutsch: Oberster Schwedischer Gerichtshof verweist Streit um Schutz von IP-Adr...

The Swedish ISP TeliaSonera has recently received a decision at the Swedish Supreme Court that questions a 2009 court decision forcing it to hand over the identity of SweTorrents BitTorrent site operator.

In 2009, four movie studios represented by anti-piracy group Antipiratbyran took TeliaSonera to Södertörn District Court which forced the ISP to reveal the identity of the respective file-sharer.

The anti-piracy group as well as the court considered that, based on Sweden's IPRED (Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive) legislation, ISPs had the obligation to revea

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Deutsch: The Pirate Bay Gründer verlieren im Berufungsverfahren

Peter Sunde, Carl Lundström and Fredrik Neij, who, in April 2009, were found guilty of copyright infringement through their file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay (TPB), have recently lost their appeal in Svea Court of Appeal.

Although the court has decided to reduce their imprisonment sentence of one year to 8, 4 and 10 months respectively, it has however increased their individual fines from about 3,45 million Euro to about 5 million Euro each.

A separate hearing will take place later for the forth TPB founder, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg who was ill and could not take part in the proceedings with the other three

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Irisches Gericht lehnt Antrag der Musikindustrie auf Three...

On 11 October 2010, Mr. Justice Peter Charleton of the Irish High Court gave judgment in EMI and Others v. UPC , rejecting music industry claims that broadband provider UPC was responsible under Irish law for policing their users and preventing copyright infringement by them.

In this case, EMI, Sony, Universal, Warner and WEA sought an injunction which would require UPC to introduce a three strikes system and to block users' access to The Pirate Bay. This followed the music industry's success in an earlier case against Eircom (Ireland's largest ISP).

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Deutsch: YouTube in Spanien vom Vorwurf der Urheberrechtsverletzung freigesproc...

Google has won a battle against Spanish broadcaster Telecinco which brought the company to court in June 2008 claiming that the company's service YouTube was liable for the copyrighted material posted by its users.

Spanish Commercial Court no.7 of Madrid ruled against Telecino, following the EU E-commerce directive which says that a website is responsible for the content uploaded by its users only if a notification of allegedly copyright infringing content is made.

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Deutsch: Französiche ISPs versenden erste Verwarnungen gemäß Three-Strikes-R...

On 1 October 2010, Bouygues Telecom and Numéricable were the first French ISPs to send warning emails to suspected illegal file-sharers, on behalf of Hadopi authority. According the media reports several hunderds warning emails have been send in these first days.

After this first message, the Internet user deemed to have allegedly continued to illegally download copyrighted content in the following six months, will receive a second warning by a registered letter.

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Deutsch: Schweizer Gericht erklärt die Sammlung von IP Adressen für unzuläss...

The Swiss Federal Court overturned on 8 September 2010 a previous court decision and ruled that the software identifying IP addresses of alleged unauthorised music uploaders was infringing the data protection law.

Switzerland-based anti-piracy company Logistep has used software to collect IP addresses from P2P users, seeking for alleged copyright infringers and passing on the addresses to rights holders. The company has thus provided, in the last years, evidence used in lawsuits against individuals accused of copyright infringement.