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Deutsch: Spanische Regierung beschließt neues Gesetz gegen Filesharer

The Spanish Government passed on 8 January 2010 the Law for Sustainable Economy which includes the creation of an Intellectual Property Commission (IPC) that will be in charge with filing complaints with a judge in cases of alleged illegal downloading.

The legislation will give the authorities the possibility to shut down file-sharing sites within a few days from the complained filed by IPC. The court is to decide within four days from the complaint whether a certain site is infringing the law or not.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Was uns Konquistadoren über ACTA lehren

When the conquistadores arrived in the Americas, historians tell us that the viruses that they carried caused devastation among the indigenous populations. For the European invaders, who had been subject to the viruses for longer, the illnesses, while still sometimes deadly, were less dangerous than for populations that had not yet been exposed to them.

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Deutsch: Das neue schwedische Anti-Piraterie-Gesetz stiftet Unruhe unter Filesh...

As already foreseen this summer, the Swedish recording industry is using the new anti-piracy IPRED law to chase filesharers.

On 7 December 2009, the Swedish branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) filed a suit with the district court in Stockholm against Direct Connect (DC) file sharing network, trying to force the site to reveal the identity of a user suspected of illegal file sharing.

IPFI has investigated a number of file sharing cases until now but this is the first case they have decided to go to court with. "We want to take one at a time.

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Deutsch: Spanien berät über die Schließung von Webseiten ohne richterliche V...

Despite the recent statements of Spanish culture Minister Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde and the warnings received from Commissioner Reding, the Spanish Government announced at the beginning of December 2009 a proposal that may lead to shutting down websites that offer P2P file sharing of music and films, without the necessity of a court order.

The draft law for Sustainable Economy that may come into force in 2010, if approved by the Parliament, includes a modification that introduces an Intellectual Property Commission which will have the power to shut down web sites considered as illegally sharing

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Das „Selbst“ in Selbstregulierung wahren

Businesses, particularly in the Internet environment, fear (and often have good reason to fear) government regulation. Traditionally, therefore, Internet Service Providers have pushed for "self-regulatory" solutions to issues surrounding the management and operation of their own networks - as in the case of spam, for example.

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Deutsch: Zum Mitmachen

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net), and other international copyright experts joined together today to launch Copyright Watch - a public website created to centralize resources on national copyright laws at
http://www.copyright-watch.org

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Mobilisierung um ACTA zu stoppen

The negotiating partners of ACTA have announced that the next round of negotiations on ACTA will take place in Mexico in January and have promised to conclude the agreement in 2010. As the last edition of the EDRi-gram exposed, the Internet Provisions of ACTA lay down a global foundation for riposte graduée, a global DMCA, and increased authority for border guards to implement an information customs regime. This global secret copyright treaty seems unstoppable, but it stands on some fragile footing.

Not everyone was taken by surprise.

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Deutsch: Frei wie in freie Kultur

Free Culture Forum (FCF), organized by the Spanish NGO Exgae together with Networked Politics and the Free Knowledge Institute turned Barcelona in the capital of free culture for 3 days.