IPR Enforcement
This section monitors aspects of EU policy which relate to IPR and copyright enforcement from 2009. If you are student, you should check my books for citation and referencing.
IPR enforcement on the Internet is controversial because measures may entail some form of content blocking and impose new liabilities on ISPs and content platforms. Blocking measures immediately engage the right to freedom of expression. It covers a variety of industry-led proposals, including early moves against Internet providers.
Iptegrity provided almost exclusive coverage of the European Commission's proposed Notice and Action Directive, which has heavily influenced the Digital Services Act.
If you like the articles in this section and you are interested in copyright enforcement policy in the EU, you may like my books A Copyright Masquerade: How Corporate Lobbying Threatens Online Freedoms and The Copyright Enforcement Enigma
You might also like my latest book The Closing of the Net which examines corporate power and Internet policy, including 3 chapters on copyright.
Online Safety
- Shadow bans: EU law says users may not be left in the dark
- Why the Online Safety Act is not fit for purpose
- Fixing the human rights failings in the Online Safety Act
- Hidden effects of the UK Online Safety Act
- Why did X lock my account for not providing my birthday?
- Online Safety Act: Ofcom’s 1700-pages of tech platform rules
- Online Safety - a non-consensual Act
- Online Safety Bill passes as US court blocks age-checks law
- Online Safety Bill: ray of hope for free speech
- National Crime Agency to run new small boats social media centre
- Online Safety Bill: does government want to snoop on your WhatsApps?
- What is content of democratic importance?
- Online Safety Bill: One rule for them and another for us
- Online Safety Bill - Freedom to interfere?
- Copyright-style website blocking orders slipped into Online Safety Bill