A report on copyright in the digital environment stalled in the European Parliament last week after an outcry over provisions backing a « graduated response » to online infringement, and ISP responsibility for controlling piracy, said French civil liberties group Squaring the Net. The report, by Manuel Medina Ortega, European Socialist Group, Spain, responds to a European Commission discussion paper on copyright issues in the knowledge economy.
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Meanwhile, French Socialist members of parliament, preparing to vote on the controversial « Creation and Internet » law that sets up a graduated response regime for online infringement, introduced a proposal for a « creative contribution » for non-commercial music exchanges over P2P networks, said Philippe Aigrain, CEO of the Society for Public Information Spaces.
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