Digital Rights + Internet Governance + Innovation Policy

EU Poised to Attack P2P File-Sharers and Punish Non-Commercial Infringements

14 February 2004 Contact:  Robin Gross, IP Justice Executive Director European Union Poised to Attack P2P File-Sharers IP Enforcement Directive Targets Non-Commercial Infringements The final weeks of the European Union's push to enact the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive are heating up with a battle brewing between consumers and the recording industry over the directive's [...]

US Gov’t Comments to EU on IPRE Directive: Recommends Targeting Non-Commercial Copying

U.S. Government Email on Proposed EU Directive on Measures and Procedures to Ensure Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights [Forwarded to IP Justice from MEP, details of US Government source under investigation, possibly USPTO] February 2003 [sic - 2004] The effective enforcement of intellectual property rights is a challenge faced by all of our governments.  The [...]

Fourtou Proposes EU Law to Send European P2P File-Sharers to Prison

Fourtou Proposes EU Law to Send European P2P File-Sharers to Prison Urges Controversial Amendment to Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive The battle over the proposed EU IP Enforcement Directive grows more contentious. Due in part to the growing public criticism over the EU Commission's draft, which threatens civil liberties and market competition, 199 amendments have been [...]

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