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Posted in censorship, copyright, EU, expropriation, human rights, international private law

A Copyright Story of An Infamous Book
The New Years Eve’s fireworks again announced enlargement of our public domain. Works of Malcom X, T.S.Eliot, Winston Churchill became copyright-free, at least in some countries. The popular media reported extensively on bittersweet coocurrence of Anne Frank’s and Adolf Hitler’s copyright expiration (again, not world-wide). With a notable exception of Der
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Posted in blocking, censorship, child pornography, EU

New Directive: Measures Against Websites Disseminating Child Pornography
Huťko just bumped to the new Directive 2011/92/EU of 13 December 2011 on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. I recall the debate about this paragraph in the European parliament, but then I forgot to follow the discussion to the end. It looks like Member States shall bring into
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Posted in Art. 11 EnforD, Art. 15 EcomD, censorship, Court of Justice, EU, ISP, Liability of ISPs

Thanksgiving gift from Luxembourg – Sabam!
Huťko is very happy to inform you that the Court of Justice of the European Union just rendered its superb decision in Sabam C‑70/10. Not only it is favorable to “internet freedoms”, but to Huťko’s great surprise, it is also based on different, but even better reasoning (the court actually discussed the balance between IP-rights
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