This May the European Court of Justice ruled on the exclusive right of authors to prohibit the distribution of the original of their works to the public.
In this issue of Aphaia's monthly series on EU regulatory case law find out more abot the latest European regulatory case law from March 2014 in the field of information society and competition.
In this issue of Aphaia’s monthly series on EU regulatory case law find out more abot the latest European regulatory case law from February of this year in the field of information society, competition and environment.
This month in the news: the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2012, net neutrality plans breach privacy rights, and the EU audiovisual sector attempts easier cross-border copyright.
Spain really really does not like online piracy, Google knows everything you type into your smartphone, and Aphaia’s Boštjan Makarovič thinks that there is still a general lack of competitive market-based thinking amongst policy-makers in Slovenia – this month in the news.
Yesterday, the United States of America began implementing an anti-piracy system under which users will receive a notice from their internet service providers (ISP) when sharing illegally downloaded content. After six such notices received, action by the ISP is to follow.
According to reports, the American Motion Picture Association is to join European film producers in pressuring Google to change the way in which the search engine displays pirated content in its search results.