Das Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz hatte seinen Diskussionsentwurf zur Umsetzung von Artikel 17 der neuen EU-Urheberrechtsrichtlinie bis zum 31. Juli 2020 zur Konsultation gestellt. In der Stellungnahme der Digitalen Gesellschaft e.V. begrüßen wir gute Ansätze zur Stärkung von… Mehr lesen >
Demo gegen EU-Urheberrechtsreform am 2. März, 13 Uhr, Berlin Hashtags #BerlinGegen13 und #Artikel13Demo, organisiert vom Bündnis Berlin gegen 13, benannt nach dem berüchtigten Artikel 13 der neuen Urheberrechtsrichtlinie, der Uploadfilter vorschreiben soll. Gestern hat der Rat der Europäischen Union dem… Mehr lesen >
The anthology Postcolonial Piracy. Media distribution and cultural production in the global south, edited by Lars Eckstein and Anja Schwarz from Potsdam University, is out. It was published by Bloomsbury in late 2014 whom Lars and Anja convinced to do… Mehr lesen >
This is a collection of materials on the proposals to legalize file-sharing in exchange for a flat-rate remuneration. These proposals are as old as P2P file-sharing itself. They have been advanced by law scholars, people from the music industry, consumer… Mehr lesen >
Grassmuck, Volker Ralf, A Proposal for Legalizing Small-Scale Physical Copyright Piracy Book Publishing, Video Films and Music in Developing Countries (April 4, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2245342 Abstract: The paper looks at the formative phase of media systems particularly in… Mehr lesen >
The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard, a close encounter with the three founders of the world’s largest peer-to-peer file-sharing site, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and synchronuously on the Net on 8 February. Now, the film can be… Mehr lesen >
Must-see AlJazeera documentary. From SOPA that was brought down by the Internet public, only to be followed-up by CISPA, an FBI man declaring that „any type of activity online can be considered a security threat,“ to NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake… Mehr lesen >
Philippe Aigrain, Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2012, ISBN 9789089643858, Rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at the center of a… Mehr lesen >
Three days before a protest blackout of major Internet sites including Wikipedia, SOPA’s main sponsor Eric Cantor announced that he will stop to move the bill forward … unless there is consensus. While Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the EC in… Mehr lesen >