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

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Apologies, had first typed, "Thanks Ivan for picking that up"...then
deleted it to shorten the comment...apologies for the typo

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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