{"id":192127,"date":"2009-05-08T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/08\/eu-parliament-votes-for-sanity\/"},"modified":"2009-05-08T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T22:25:00","slug":"eu-parliament-votes-for-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/08\/eu-parliament-votes-for-sanity\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament Votes for Sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of copyright numnuts, in particular Nicholas Sarkozy, want the law to require ISPs to take down an account on an accusation from a license holder, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/9\/28079\">Euro Parliament passed language saying that any take-down has to be in court<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>But a battle has exploded in the last few weeks over a parliamentary amendment that aimed to prevent countries from passing legislation similar to France&#8217;s \u2018three-strikes&#8217; bill that would cut off internet access if users are repeatedly caught downloading music, films and other content without permission of the copyright holder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>France, wanting to save what has become a flagship piece of legislation for President Nicholas Sarkozy, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">whose wife is a pop star<\/span>, lobbied other member states heavily on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Trautmann, the deputy responsible for shepherding the legislation through the parliament, said she was confident that the wording in the compromise meant that a court order was required before access could be cut.<\/p>\n<p>French culture minister Christine Albanel meanwhile believed that the compromise meant that websurfers who had their internet access cut had a right to judicial appeal &#8211; but only after the deed had been done.<\/p>\n<p>The deal unravelled on Wednesday morning however, when the full sitting of the parliament supported a late amendment 407 to 57, with 171 abstentions, re-inserting stronger language requiring governments to obtain a court ruling before access can be cut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>I guess Sarko is big on this because he just knows that record distributors and movie studios are such honest and empathic people that they would <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">never<\/span> abuse this power.<\/p>\n<p>This will probably push the bill into the next session, which promises to have even more consumer advocates. <\/p>\n<p>Two snaps up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of copyright numnuts, in particular Nicholas Sarkozy, want the law to require ISPs to take down an account on an accusation from a license holder, but the Euro Parliament passed language saying that any take-down has to be in court: But a battle has exploded in the last few weeks over a parliamentary &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1134,984,1109,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-europe","category-ip","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}