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Deutsch: Französische Verordnung legt fest, was Hosting-Provider auf Vorrat sp...

The French Government published on 1 March 2011 the decree establishing the data that must be retained, at the transmission or modification of online content, by the hosting companies, including video sharing and blog hosting services.

The decree related to the conservation of the data "allowing for the identification of any person having contributed to the creation of online content" has been expected since the promulgation of the law on the confidence in the numerical economy (LCEN - implementing the E-commerce Directive) on

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Deutsch: Polnische Zivilgesellschaft treibt Diskussion über die Freiheit des I...

The Polish chapter in the European debate on whether Internet blocking can be conceived as a measure in fighting the dissemination of child abuse images has finally been opened. This is due to the quite successful campaign that EDRi-member Panoptykon Foundation, supported by the open source movement and Internet Society Poland, has been running over last few weeks.

It has long been unclear what position the government will take with regard to the Directive on combating sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography.

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Deutsch: Ungarn überarbeitet umstrittenes Mediengesetz

As a result of the concern expressed by the European Commission and following the meetings with the Commission's experts on 7 and 15 February 2011, the Hungarian authorities have decided to amend their new controversial media legislation.

The main issues of concern were related to four issues:

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Deutsch: US-Behörden entziehen spanischen Sportstreamingseiten die Domain

The US authorities have recently seized, without any warning, the domain names of several sports streaming sites over alleged copyright infringements within the "Operation In Our Sites" action launched at the beginning of July 2010, targeting websites having allegedly offered users copyrighted material without copyright owners' consent.

In July 2010, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized a series of film streaming domain names.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: EDRi veröffentlicht Studie über Selbst-Regulierung und Z...

European Digital Rights has published a study on the scale of measures being undertaken to outsource policing activities to private companies in the Internet environment and its significance for fundamental rights, transparency and openness on the Internet.

Internet intermediaries around the world are taking on more important roles in their states' efforts to address the dissemination of illegal online content and this trend is likely to become stronger as we move into a new environment of "extra-judicial sanctions" against consumers.

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Deutsch: Sarkozy wünscht sich ein "zivilisiertes" Internet

With France at the Presidency of the G20 group in 2011, Nicolas Sarkozy has recently announced the intention to convene a G20 meeting to discuss Internet and copyright issues, before the full G20 summit of heads of state and government in Cannes in November.

The French President has had the same discourse for some time now, having pushed the idea of a "civilised" Internet on various occasions since the signature in November 2007 of the so-called "Olivennes agreement", which established the Hadopi authority.

The subject of a "civilised" Internet will also be discussed during the G8 meeting that will take place in D

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Deutsch: EU Institutionen fordern von Ungarn Klarstellungen zum Mediengesetz

The Hungarian EU Presidency was met on 19 January 2011 with opposition and criticism due to the controversial media legislation Hungary has recently introduced. Some MEPs displayed white banners that read "censored".

Viktor Orban, the Hungarian Prime-Minister started his speech by stating that the Hungarian government was willing to change the legislation if the European Commission finds it to be at fault, as the law is presently under its legal review to establish whether it contravenes the EU law.

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Deutsch: Französische Nationalversammlung: Loppsi 2-Gesetz angenommen

The so-called Loppsi 2 law (loi d'orientation et de programmation pour la performance de la sécurité intérieure - law on guidelines and programming for the performance of internal security) was approved by the French General Assembly in its second reading on 21 December 2010 with a large majority and is now to go under debate in the Senate in the second reading, in a toughened version.

The law which, among several measures covers a mix of security domains, asks ISPs to block Internet sites deemed to have child pornographic content, now includes a version that will no longer require a previous judicial