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30 Days of DRM: Suggestions to moderate a Canadian DMCA

Elizabeth Gonsiorowski, Brooklyn Law School, September 8, 2006
Abstract: In light of the Canadian Parliament's upcoming fall session, Prof. Michael Geist, a Law Professor at the University of Ottawa, has taken on a project to highlight public-interest exceptions that should be addressed if Canada enacts a law like the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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Chilling Effects Internationally

Wendy Seltzer, Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, July 24, 2005
Abstract: You may have noticed that Chilling Effects has recently begun posting international C&Ds: complaints from people outside the United States to U.S. individuals or companies raising arguments under non-U.S. law. These C&Ds raise some distinct issues from U.S.-based complaints, including jurisdiction, substantive law, and language. They also raise similar issues of transparency for the web hosts and search engines who receive them. Chilling Effects has begun to receive these international complaints from Google, which at times removes results from Google localized searches (e.g., searches on google.fr or google.de instead of google.com).
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Legal setback for music industry in fight against piracy, Heise.de, December 22, 2004
Abstract: news 21.12.2004 14:49 Legal setback for music industry in fight against piracy The Higher Regional Court in Munich has ruled that providers are not obliged for copyright reasons to make specific information about users suspected of operating illegal FTP servers available. In a ruling of November (file number 6 U 4696/04), which has only now become known, the court of appeal granted the appeal of an Internet provider against a decision by the Regional Court I in Munich (file number 21 O 10372/04) which had specified an obligation to this effect on the part of providers. In the latter ruling in July the label BMG as legal representative of the artists in its care had initially been granted the right in its pursuit of potentially-illegal download offers to demand information from the access provider about the specific circumstances surrounding the suspected breach of the law by a customer or customers of the access provider.

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