Thursday, 16. February 2012
Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 16, 2012 at 12:19:00 PM CET
Online Copyright: EU Court of Justice Rules Out Private and Automatic Censorship
The European Court of Justice rendered another decision in defence of freedoms online. In the SABAM vs. Netlog case, it declares that forcing a hosting service to monitor and filter online content violates EU law. This is a crucial and timely ruling, just when initiatives such as ACTA and the revision of the IPRED directive aim to generalise private and automatic online censorship to enforce an outdated copyright regime.
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