[governance] Re: European Court of Justice [#Intellectual Property #ISP #Internet Filtering #Human Rights #Privacy]

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Thanks Ivar f:)

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Ivar A. M. Hartmann <ivarhartmann at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Thank you for summing it up, Salanieta! Let me just point that in addition
> to the ISPs' freedom to conduct business and consumer privacy, the *freedom
> to receive or impart information* was also weighed against the right to
> property.
> Best,
> Ivar
>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 21:41, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Actually the significance of this Judgment is in relation to how they
>> dealt with the prioritisation of rights, that is the rights if intellectual
>> property owners, the rights of ISPs to conduct their business freely and
>> the rights of consumers to privacy. "The injunction requiring installation
>> of the contested filtering system involve a systematic analysis of all
>> content [ISPs cannot afford this and at the end of the day, this cost
>> would be borne by customers somehow] and the collection and
>> identification of users' IP addresses from which unlawful content on the
>> network is sent. Those addresses are protected personal data because they
>> allow those users to be precisely identified". (Highlighted portion is mine)
>>
>> The consideration in how the Judges arrived at their decision is on [para
>> 52, 53] where there is no guarantee that lawful content would not be
>> blocked. After considering all the rights stemming from the Directives
>> listed in para 55, the courts held in favour of "privacy" of consumers that
>> is fundamental rights trumping when reading all of the Directives together.
>> Although the European Court of Justice recommended that harmonization take
>> place.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
>> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I found this Judgment interesting in the wake of the controversies
>>> surrounding SOPA.
>>>
>>> There are some interesting developments by the European Court of Justice
>>> on the prioritisation of rights, where
>>> EU law precludes the imposition of an injunction by a national court
>>> which requires an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to install a filtering
>>> system with a view to preventing the illegal downloading of files, see the
>>> Press Release:
>>> http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2011-11/cp110126en.pdf
>>>
>>> The actual Judgment that was just released on the 24th November, 2011 is
>>> available here:
>>> http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=EN&Submit=Submit&numaff=C-70/10
>>>
>>>
>>> The judgment of course is available in a host of European languages.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>>
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