[Ecommerce] INFO : [Ecommerce] DG MARKT on copyright

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In view of the forthcoming collecting societies directive.

Cornelia
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De: ecommerce-admin@lists.essential.org de la part de Michelle Childs
Date: ven. 03/06/2005 18:17
À: ecommerce@lists.essential.org
Objet : [Ecommerce] Scandinavia gets tough on file sharing




http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/02/scandinavia_p2p_clampdown/
Scandinavia gets tough on file sharing
By Jan Libbenga
Published Thursday 2nd June 2005 20:55 GMT
Scandinavia seems to getting tougher with those sharing illegal music
files on the web. Sweden last week passed a law banning the sharing of
copyrighted material on the web without payment of royalties. Until now,
it was legal in Sweden to download copyrighted movie and music files, but
making them available for sharing was unlawful.

Earlier this year, a Swedish prosecutor had already charged a man who made
a movie available for download from his computer, the first such case in
the Nordic country.

In Sweden, the piracy problem is bigger than in any other country in
Europe, experts claim. At least 500,000 people in Sweden - a country of
nine million inhabitants - download and post illegal copies of films,
claims the Swedish Anti-piracy Bureau. But then they would say that,
wouldn't they?

An Oslo municipal court this week sentenced a 36-year-old man for running
an illegal file sharing service, the first conviction of its type in
Norway. The man had made a significant number of film and music files
available for at least 300 people at a time, daily newspaper Aftenposten
reports. Norwegian police discovered more than 60,000 pirated film and
music files, some of which sat on his employer's server: the Norwegian
telecom company NetCom. ®



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Michelle Childs -Head of European Affairs
Consumer Project on Technology in London
24, Highbury Crescent, London, N5 1RX,UK.
Tel:+44(0)207 226 6663 ex 252.
Mob:+44(0)790 386 4642. Fax: +44(0)207 354 0607
http://www.cptech.org

Consumer Project on Technology in Washington, DC
PO Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036, USA
Tel.:  1.202.387.8030, fax: 1.202.234.5176

Consumer Project on Technology in Geneva
1 Route des  Morillons, CP 2100, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 791 6727



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