Rightholders cannot expect all unauthorised materials to disappear. They also know that excessive protection could harm creators and publishers as well as outright pirates.

Further, these orders allow the rightholders to update the ISPs where the website moves to a new IP address or URL and the ISP is required to update the blocking measures accordingly.

"The [intermediary] services should provide rightholders with information on the type of technologies used, the way they are operated, and the success rate for the identification of rightholders ...

As Nigerian women joined the rest of the world to celebrate this year’s Mother’s Day, rightholders of Ngwo community, Enugu State, on the platform of The Voice Nigeria project implemented by ...

This is clearly another area where increased transparency (in this case from platforms to rightholders and users) can solve a lot of issues. Nothing new here but everything will be different As we ...

Communia Association, Link (CC-0) Today, on the verge of the implementation deadline for the CDSM directive, the European Commission has published its long awaited guidance on the application of ...

These new rules will provide wider access to online content for the European citizens and will enhance European cultural diversity, as rightholders will be adequately rewarded for their works. This is ...

An E.U. proposal to place copyright levies on cloud computing services would be a complete disaster if implemented, according to a member of the European Parliament. Pirate Party MEP Christian ...

More than 100 media, sports, music and culture organisations have written to the Commission calling for “decisive legislative action” to clamp down on the piracy of live-broadcast content.

The performance of rightholders in relation to their compliance with policies, laws, regulations and conditions attached to their rights, will be closely monitored and periodically evaluated to ...