Today's struggles for human rights in the digital age would greatly benefit from a closer look at the past.
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The campaign against Israel’s biometric database demonstrates how civil society can advocate for privacy even when “privacy is dead”.
In the last two decades, the industry has deployed endlessly the rhetoric of the “digital threat” in order to demand harsher measures against digital piracy. This paper shows that the “digital threat” discourse is based on shaky grounds.
This paper examines how various stakeholders in the 2014 EC consultation on copyright attempted to shape the definition of user-generated content and what this means for the reform of copyright in Europe.
Will copyrights become the next software patents?
The European Commission just ran a consultation on the future of copyright in Europe. The response was an avalanche of opinions. In this open editorial, Sebastian Haunss imagines what's next.
EU data protection: bumpy piece of road ahead
The European Civil Liberties Committee LIBE is pushing the EU data protection regulation draft forward. Yet, many compromises are made along the way, leaving Europeans wondering who will be the good, the bad and the ugly in the data protection saga.
Europe pushes rewind button on net neutrality
The EU draft regulation on a “ connected continent “ has made one thing clear: the fight around net neutrality is far from over. What's more, the fire has set the European Commission ablaze.
User-generated content in a legal vacuum
There is user-generated content in many shapes – from musicians setting up their own labels, funded and supported by users to remixes of the latest political campaign slogans. What is still pending, is a genuine European copyright reform which would address this type of content.
Trade partnership gets nod from majority in European Parliament
The majority of the European Parliament welcomed the start of the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – a EU-US free trade agreement - in a resolution released in Strasbourg on May 15. The Green Party wanted more conditions to avoid a potential degradation of European standards in data protection. European civil