TMO Tags: copyright

Irish Sopa statute signed

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Yesterday, despite a popular outcry and serious objections raised, Ireland’s Minister of State for Research and Innovation Seán Sherlock signed into law the European Union (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2012, a statutory instrument which has been described as Ireland’s version of SOPA. The background to the statute is outlined here and here. When news [...]

Digital censorship – Italian judges close down disaster information site

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

Imagine the closing of an entire newspaper/magazine/portal online because judges deem one simple phrase published, on one of its pages,  to be defamatory.  No need to imagine it, as it’s already happened this month – not in China, as one might think, but in the heart of the EU; Italian judges, deeming one phrase published [...]

Ireland and Italy propose SOPA like legislation

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

While Irish and Italian citizens participated in the protests against the US SOPA / PIPA bills, it seems that their own Governments are in the process of introducing very similar measures – perhaps even harsher. The Irish government is acting  in the wake of a court case (EMI and Others Vs UPC) where record companies [...]