Paris, June 15th, 2011 – Information website PC INpact revealed today a draft executive order which would give the French government the power to arbitrarily censor any content or service on the Net. The French…
With the EU Commission’s announcement of the upcoming release of a memo regarding the signature and ratification of ACTA by the European Union, La Quadrature has sent a letter to Christine Lagarde, French Minister of…
От началото на 2010 г. във Франция държавната агенция HADOPI изпраща три последователни предупреждения до лица, заподозрени в интернет пиратство. Според Майкъл Гайст тази практика вероятно нарушава Международното споразумение за граждански и политически права.
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Hadopi avait invité la presse hier soir pour un point sur sa future campagne de communication, et la labellisation en cours des offres légales qui en font la demande. La campagne coûte 3 millions d’euros,…
Un rapport de l’ONU sur la liberté d’expression et internet demande aux Etats, à commencer par la France, de renoncer aux lois qui permettent de suspendre l’accès à Internet en cas de violation des droits…
Un rapport de l’Onu portant sur la liberté d’expression sur Internet met en lumière la capacité de certains Etats à priver un utilisateur de connexion. A ce titre, l’organisation internationale cite nommément la riposte graduée,…
Paris, June 3rd 2011 – A report on Internet policy by the UN Special Rapporteur on the protection of freedom of opinion and expression will be presented today. The report’s guidelines aimed at protecting fundamental…
[…] This past week, the official communiqué released by the summit of the Gang of Eight industrial nations, or G8, hailed the importance of the Internet to the world’s citizens in the 21st century ahead
There’s been a lot of talk on copyright and Internet regulation at the G8 summit in France.
“The declaration reflects an absolutely conservative position that intellectual property rights should be protected according to the existing conventions,”…
Paris, May 27th, 2011 – Today, the G8 released its final communiqué, which fails to offer balanced and concrete proposals regarding Internet policy. After convening an illegitimate eG8 during which special interests and governments came…