Autores, fotocopias y educación en Costa Rica
Fotocopiadoras “self-service” Durante los últimos días hemos presenciado un lamentable ataque contra el Congreso y la Fuerza Pública por parte de elementos opuestos al veto presidencial de la Ley 17342...
View ArticleArgentinian court calls Cuevana blocking request “broad and disproportionate”
An interesting case from Argentina. A judge has received and rejected a request from HBO Ole Partners, the Latin American branch of HBO, to block access to the popular streaming site Cuevana. In case...
View ArticleHow effective are blocking orders against torrent sites?
The High Court of England and Wales has produced another blocking order for UK Internet service providers (ISPs) against three torrent sites. The action was brought by the British Recorded Music...
View ArticleUK court issues more blocking orders
Following a series of cases in which the High Court of England and Wales has granted blocking orders, a new injunction has been issued against two websites called SolarMovie and TubePlus. In Paramount...
View ArticleCopyright Week: Has the copyright war been won?
All of this week blogs and websites around the globe have been celebrating Copyright Week, an initiative by the EFF to celebrate two years of the defeat of SOPA/PIPA. Copyright Week consists of a...
View ArticleEuropean court allows website blocking
You shall not pass! The European Court of Justice has produced a very interesting ruling with regards to injunctions ordering intermediaries to block websites which make available infringing content....
View ArticleWhy The Pirate Bay can’t be shut down
On December 9 2014, Swedish police raided the servers of the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, and finally managed to shut down the service for the first time since its creation in 2003. Police acted...
View ArticleNew EU Directive threatens the Internet as we know it
And so it has come to this, the great copyright battle of our time. After a troubled process that has spanned various stages of development, we finally have a proposed compromise text on the Digital...
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