Tagged: ACTA
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SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and the battle for freedom on the internet News
03.01.2013 At the beginning of 2012, there was an online blackout as prominent sites protested what they believed to be unfair copyright legislation about to be enacted. This led to... -
European Commission sounds ACTA’s death knell News
20.12.2012 The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is dead in the eyes of European legislators who have withdrawn a request for the treaty to be examined by the... -
ACTA has been rejected by the European Parliament News
04.07.2012 The notoriously Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which nations including Ireland signed earlier this year in Japan, has been overwhelmingly rejected by the European... -
European Parliament group delivers deathblow to ACTA News
21.06.2012 The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which sparked a wave of protest in Europe after various governments signed it in Japan without consulting their...Categories: Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications -
ACTA rejected by three EU committees News
31.05.2012 All three EU committees advising the International Trade Committee have today rejected the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the treaty to put a stop to... -
Savvy TDs crowdsource their response to Copyright Review News
28.05.2012 A pair of independent TDs are enlisting the public as part of a crowdsourcing exercise to get feedback on their submission to the Copyright Review Commission in the aftermath of...Categories: Multimedia, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
‘We’re likely to be in a world without SOPA and ACTA’ – EU’s Neelie Kroes News
08.05.2012 The EU Commissioner for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes has admitted we are now likely to be in a world without SOPA and without ACTA. -
Tim Berners-Lee: people would go to prison rather than lose internet News
24.04.2012 The inventor of the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee said people were absolutely right to take to the streets to protest SOPA, PIPA and ACTA and said disconnecting a family’s...Categories: Telecommunications, Social Media, Servers, Security, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
Google’s Sergey Brin warns of demise of open internet News
16.04.2012 Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hit out against giants such as Apple and Facebook, as well as the rising threat of governments trying to control people’s web access, resulting... -
Sound, vision and fury News
12.04.2012 Ongoing debates about digital media, copyright reform, piracy and internet freedom are just ‘raindrops’ in a much bigger flood that is about to hit the internet.Tags: Copyright, ACTA, SOPA, Innovation, Piracy, Legislation, ISP, Illegal Downloads, Copyright Infringement -
Sound, vision – and some fury – at Digital Rights Forum (videos) News
05.04.2012 In what was a stirring and exhilarating debate on Tuesday about Ireland’s copyright laws in which Innovation Minister Sean Sherlock made himself available to the public, the one...Categories: Research, R&D, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications -
#DRF2012 – Speeches on Ireland’s digital future (video) News
04.04.2012 Here are the speeches from yesterday’s Digital Rights Forum in Dublin, a stirring and exciting debate on the controversial statutory instrument, featuring Innovation Minister...Categories: R&D, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Legal, Investments, Internet, Intellectual Property, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications, Research -
Public debate on ‘Irish SOPA’ to begin before weekend News
01.03.2012 The Irish Internet Association’s public forum on the Irish copyright review is expected to go live by the weekend and will be open to the public, as well as IIA members. -
EU Court of Justice to decide if ACTA breaches fundamental rights News
22.02.2012 The European Court of Justice is to review whether the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is incompatible with the EU’s fundamental rights and freedoms, the European...Categories: Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Consumer Tech, Communications, Games/Entertainment, Media -
Germany postpones decision to sign controversial ACTA treaty News
10.02.2012 As thousands of people in 200 European cities prepare to march in protest tomorrow against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Germany has delivered a potentially... -
Ireland’s SOPA – the day of reckoning approaches News
06.02.2012 Tomorrow, the controversial statutory instrument concerning a change to the Copyright Act 2000 to correct a loophole in the legislation – dubbed ‘Ireland’s SOPA’ – goes before... -
Thousands protest ACTA, petition gets 300k signatures in 72 hours News
03.02.2012 Thousands of people will take to the streets in opposition to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on 11 February, a policy analyst for Access predicts. She warns ACTA... -
11 February declared day of action against ACTA News
02.02.2012 A controversial global treaty – the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement – which has the agreement of 22 European nations, including Ireland, has spurred protesters to declare 11... -
SOPA Box – debating the future of the internet in Ireland News
31.01.2012 Ahead of this evening’s Dail debate on the statutory instrument that amends the Copyright Act 2000, two of the leaders behind the Stop SOPA Ireland petition – Michele Neylon and... -
EU countries – including Ireland and Poland – sign ACTA treaty News
26.01.2012 The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) – which is seen by critics to be an international version of the controversial SOPA bill – has been signed by the EU and member...Categories: R&D, Online Business, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Consumer Tech