On Thursday 16 February 2012 10:23:02 D.Bolton U0970268 wrote:
"Online Copyright: EU Court of Justice Rules Out Private and Automatic Censorship"...Good news for the community hosting service?
Certainly it is very good news indeed!
"it declares that forcing a hosting service to monitor and filter online content violates EU law."
It appears to mean that we could take the case to a European court if we were required to "monitor and police" our users in order to prevent copyright infringement.
It does not appear to have any impact on other, non-copyright related cases however. Therefore the scenario that we discussed were we might be forced to hand over passwords and not tell our users is still possible as far as I can see, so we need to remain vigilant.
On Thursday 16 February 2012 10:46:44 Anna Morris wrote:
looks good, just a shame it doesn't clarify the exact position on other illegal activities :S
Indeed.
Good work! Where did you find it?
Out of interest FSFE is closely involved with http://www.laquadrature.net. I believe they are one of the partners of Document Freedom Day, and FSFE representatives have worked closely with them on several issues in the past. The situation in France is a bit sticky regarding Free Software community groups (lots of infighting), but La Quadrature has done consistently good work in the past.
Thanks,
Sam.