Wed, Sep. 29, 2004
Copyright Amendments
CK - Washington. Attorney General Brigitte Zypries announced today the plans for substantial amendments to the copyright statute. A major set of amendments entered into force on September 1, 2003. Those amendments implemented European Union rules. The second set represents a German effort to bring the copyright law in line with advances in technology and practice.
The web site of the Department of Justice presents an overview of not only the intended revisions but also the input to the department from the public.
CK - Washington. Attorney General Brigitte Zypries announced today the plans for substantial amendments to the copyright statute. A major set of amendments entered into force on September 1, 2003. Those amendments implemented European Union rules. The second set represents a German effort to bring the copyright law in line with advances in technology and practice.
The web site of the Department of Justice presents an overview of not only the intended revisions but also the input to the department from the public.
PermalinkCensorship Trial for a Web Link
CK - Washington. Alvar Freude founded ODEM.org, a German website that promotes online demonstrations. Freude will be tried in a Stuttgart court on October 7, 2004. The offense: ODEM.org discussed censorship. The article contains a link to a right wing web site. The web site had been outlawed by a Düsseldorf court under laws prohibiting certain activities such as the glorification of Nazis. Apparently, the latter court launched a criminal investigation into offering that link.
The LAWgical alerts readers to the trial and notes that the suppression of links runs counter to the web principles enunciated by Technical Advisory Group des W3C, in particular its September 11, 2003 findings on deep links.
Freude's team comments that courts and the justice system got lost in the net. Their comment includes a recital of the charges which equate links with providing illegally access to censored material. ODEM argues that the censorship law does not apply to web links when the topic is a current event issue of public interest, such as the censorship laws themselves which by necessity address censoring. ODEM charges also that the authorities disregarded the blatant satire on censorship on a second site that also forms a basis for the charges against Freude.
The LAWgical alerts readers to the trial and notes that the suppression of links runs counter to the web principles enunciated by Technical Advisory Group des W3C, in particular its September 11, 2003 findings on deep links.
Freude's team comments that courts and the justice system got lost in the net. Their comment includes a recital of the charges which equate links with providing illegally access to censored material. ODEM argues that the censorship law does not apply to web links when the topic is a current event issue of public interest, such as the censorship laws themselves which by necessity address censoring. ODEM charges also that the authorities disregarded the blatant satire on censorship on a second site that also forms a basis for the charges against Freude.
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