From LQDN:
The Constitutionnal Council, highest jurisdiction in France gave its decision1 concerning the HADOPI “three strikes” law, final stage before the promulgation of the law. It decided that presumption of innocence is more important than the idiotic schemes from the entertainment industries to artificially prolong their obsolete models.
All sanctioning power (ie. disconnecting internet users) has [...]

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In a press conference on monday the European Commission denied a request by French President Nicholas Sarkozy, to reject an amendment voted on by the European Parliament in September’s Telecoms Package vote:

“The amendment on a new regulatory framework for telecommunications stated “no restriction may be imposed on the fundamental rights and freedoms of end-users, without [...]

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Here’s the August update for all you supporters and soon-to-be-supporting readers. Click through for details of our 24 October event with Neil Gaiman and a whole heap more.
Supporter update - August 2008
Thanks to Jutta for the image.

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Please follow the link below to read the latest supporters update, which details our activities in the month of February, including great press activity and a list of upcoming events.
Supporters update - February 2008

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Much for you to pore over in the June 2007 Supporter Update
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Most of the thirty ORG election observers who have volunteered to devote a day to democracy on 3 May have now received their official accreditation from the Electoral Commission. ORG’s monitoring team dominates the group of offical observers accredited by the commission last week. We’ll be paying special attention to the running of electronic voting [...]

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We email out a Supporters Update on the last day of each month. It contains a mixture of news, press and events items as well as suggestions for ways to volunteer and help ORG’s work. Past missives are archived at the links below.
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The Patent Office needs to hear from artists and creators. Please let us help you get in touch.
The Patent Office is charged with implementing the exciting recommendations suggested in the recent Gowers Review of IP. But they are yet to be convinced of the crucial need for some of these recommendations, mainly because they’re finding [...]

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Our submission to this consultation is available here

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There are concerns proposed WIPO legislation will further extend the social and cultural dominance of trad broadcasters over the internet, as mentioned here on this blog. An announcement this week by the WIPO General Assembly regarding the draft Broadcast Treaty offers encouragement to activists, and has been hailed as a “huge victory for the public [...]

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