intermediaries

Posted in Art. 12 EcomD, Art. 14 EcomD, Art. 15 EcomD, intermediaries

EC Proposes Stay-down & Expanded Obligation to License UGC Services
European Commission does not care about the future of the digital single market. This is basically what it just communicated to citizens of Europe in its recently leaked proposal on Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market. Its content is nothing but a shameful statement of where a lobbying muscle of the music industry
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Posted in ECHR, freedom of expression, hyperlinking, intermediaries, Liability of ISPs, secondary liability

ECtHR To Hear A Case About Liability For Hyperlinking [+ Intervention]
Internet case-law of the ECtHR will soon be enriched. Magyar Jeti Zrt v Hungary is a new important pending case. It concerns liability for hyperlinks in the domestic defamation law and its compatibility with freedom of expression. The applicant is in the case is an operator of the Hungarian news portal 444.hu which is used by approximately
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Posted in Art. 11 EnforD, Art. 8(1) EnforD, injunctions, intermediaries, papers

Accountable, Not Liable (Video + New Paper)
The regular readers of this blog will know that I have spent last couple of years (and hours of blogging time) pondering on problems posed by injunctions that are issued against Internet intermediaries irrespective of their tortious liability. Today, I would like to share with you some of the fruits of this work – a
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Posted in Art. 11 EnforD, Art. 8(3) InfoSoc, disconnecting injunctions, intermediaries, papers

New Paper On Novel Type of Injunctions Against Intermediaries
The readers interested in questions of intermediary liability, injunctions and online enforcement might be interested in a new paper authored by me and my friend Miquel Peguera. It is a substantially revised version of a working paper that was previously made available on SSRN in July this year. Since the copyright policy of the journal
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Posted in ACTA, Art. 11 EnforD, Art. 8(3) InfoSoc, CETA, disconnecting injunctions, EU, intermediaries, safe harbours

#CETA: Should Canadian Internet Intermediaries Worry?
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is a proposed free trade agreement between Canada and the European Union. It is yet another alphabet soup that was cooked by our dear policy makers without first asking the public if it is hungry for any change of intellectual property protection/enforcement. As most of the other alphabet
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