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The Weeping Angels are back, and they attack our privacy via smart TVs external link
European Intermediary Liability in Copyright: A Tort-Based Analysis external link
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European Intermediary Liability in Copyright provides a clarification on the existing rules of the European Union on the liability of internet intermediaries for third party copyright infringement. On this basis, it formulates a plausible model for a potential future further harmonisation of this complicated area.
In step with its rapid progress to the centre of modern social, political and economic life, the internet has proven a convenient vehicle for the commission of unprecedented levels of copyright infringement. Given the significant practical obstacles to the successful pursuit of actual perpetrators, it has become common for internet intermediaries – the providers of internet-related infrastructure and services – to face liability as accessories. Despite advances in policy at the European level however, the law in this area remains fragmented between Member States. This is the first book to take a law-based approach towards exploring the possible substantive harmonisation of the rules of intermediary liability at the EU level.
The thesis on which the book was based won Proxime Accessit in the 2016 European Law Faculties Association Award for Outstanding Doctoral Theses in European Law.
aansprakelijkheid, Auteursrecht, Copyright, intermediaries, Kluwer Information Law Series
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Privacy, Freedom of Expression, and the Right to Be Forgotten in Europe external link
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In this chapter we discuss the relation between privacy and freedom of expression in Europe. In principle, the two rights have equal weight in Europe – which right prevails depends on the circumstances of a case. We use the Google Spain judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union, sometimes called the ‘right to be forgotten’ judgment, to illustrate the difficulties when balancing the two rights. The court decided in Google Spain that people have, under certain conditions, the right to have search results for their name delisted. We discuss how Google and Data Protection Authorities deal with such delisting requests in practice. Delisting requests illustrate that balancing privacy and freedom of expression interests will always remain difficult.
Criminal Conviction, Dutch Law, Freedom of expression, Freedom of Speech, frontpage, Personal data, Privacy, right to be forgotten, Search Engine, Sensitive Data, Special Categories of Data
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Notice-and-fair-balance: how to reach a compromise between fundamental rights in European intermediary liability external link
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In recent years, Europe’s highest courts have searched for the answer to the problem of intermediary liability in the notion of a ‘fair balance’ between competing fundamental rights. At the same time, the ‘notice-and-takedown’ system, which first emerged as a solution to intermediary liability in the 1990s, has spread across the globe, transforming along the way into an assortment of ‘notice-and-action’ variants that differ from country to country. In this article, we seek to examine how both these approaches to the intermediary liability question can be usefully combined. Interpreting ‘fair balance’ as a call for compromise, we propose a move away from the traditional ‘horizontal’ approach of the EU's safe harbour regime, towards a more ‘vertical’ scheme, whereby distinct ‘actions’ are tailored to diverse wrong-doings: notice-and-notice for copyright, notice-wait-and-takedown for defamation and notice-and-takedown and notice-and-suspension for hate speech. Notice-and-judicial-take-down can function as a complementary all-purpose solution. Automatic takedown and notice-and-stay-down are applicable exclusively to child pornography. We suggest that the resulting calibrated system can contribute to achieving a truer ‘fair balance’ in this difficult area of law.
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CJEU, ECtHR, fair balance, frontpage, Fundamental rights, intermediary liability, notice-and-action
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Regulating Collective Management by Competition: an Incomplete Answer to the Licensing Problem external link
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While the three functions of Collective Management Organisations - to licence use, monitor use, and to collect and distribute the revenue - have traditionally been accepted as a progression towards a natural (national) monopoly, digital exploitation of music may no longer lead to such a fate. The European Commission has challenged the traditional structures through reforms that increase the degree of competition. This paper asks whether the reforms have had the desired effect and shows, through qualitative research, that at least regarding the streaming of music, competition has not delivered. Part of the reason for this may be that the services required by the now competing CMOs have changed.
collective management organisations, competition, frontpage, licensing reforms EC, qualitative research
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Individual submission: Review of the [Irish] Defamation Act 2009 – Public consultation 2016 external link
Het ‘right to be forgotten’ en bijzondere persoonsgegevens external link
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Een advocaat heeft een ‘right to be forgotten’-verzoek gedaan bij Google, met betrekking tot een blogpost
over een strafrechtelijke veroordeling van de advocaat in het buitenland. De Rechtbank Rotterdam heeft beslist dat Google niet meer naar de blogpost mag verwijzen als mensen zoeken op de naam van de advocaat. De rechtbank wees het verwijderingsverzoek toe omdat de blogpost een strafrechtelijke veroordeling betreft: een bijzonder persoonsgegeven. De redenering van de rechtbank over bijzondere persoonsgegevens leidt tot problemen voor de vrijheid van meningsuiting. Deze bijdrage verkent hoe die problemen verkleind kunnen worden.
advocaat, frontpage, Personal data, right to be forgotten, Vrijheid van meningsuiting
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Annotatie bij Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens 8 november 2016 (Magyar Helsinki Bizottság) external link
Bridging the gap: Private international law principles for intellectual property law external link
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This past decade has seen a veritable surge of development of ‘soft law’ private international instruments for intellectual property. A global network has been formed made up of academics and practitioners who work on the intersection of these domains. This article examines the synthesizing work of the International Law Association’s Committee on intellectual property and private international law. Now that its draft Guidelines on jurisdiction, applicable law and enforcement are at an advanced stage, what can be said about consensus and controversy about dealing with transborder intellectual property disputes in the information age? What role can principles play in a world where multilateral rulemaking on intellectual property becomes ever deeply politicized and framed as an issue of trade? Arguably, private international law retains it facilitating role and will continue to attract the attention of intellectual property law specialists as a necessary integral part of regulating transborder information flows.
frontpage, intellectual property law, Intellectuele eigendom, private international law