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Comments: 1 +-   EU ISP Filters & Copyright Extension Defeated-> on Tuesday January 22 2008, @06:00PM I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

Submitted by I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property on Tuesday January 22 2008, @06:00PM
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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Last November, EU regulators in the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education began looking at how culture effects the economy and recommended a "balance between the opportunities for access to cultural events and content and intellectual property" saying that "criminalising consumers so as to combat digital piracy is not the right solution." Industry lobbyists, of course, immediately tried to turn that around, writing amendments that would set up mandatory ISP copyright filters and extend EU copyrights to match the USA's life plus 70 term. Thankfully, the committee rejected all of those amendments. Said Ars, "Clearly, they're not going to let the ITRE or the European recording industry push them around, which is great news for Europeans. Now if we could only get the US Congress to show as much spine as the French (ouch)." Vive la France!"
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  • I sense a lot of excitment in the responses to this post on the European Parliament vote. But take care - the European Parliament does not make the law in the sense that other national parliaments do, and its vote only counts when the Council of Ministers also agrees with it. This vote, was a committee vote. The committee in this case, is just looking at the issue to determine the European parliament's view, which will be passed on to the European commission, whose job it is to propose and draft legislation
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