copyright

The Article 29 Working Party of European Data Protection regulators have now given a bit more information about their preferred approach to gaining consent for third party cookies in a letter commenting on the (unsatisfactory, they feel) approach proposed by the Internet Advertising Bureau Europe.

That seems to be the rather depressing message from the European Court of Justice to websites that allow third parties to post content (e.g. the comments on this blog). Article 14 of the European eCommerce Directive says that those hosts are protected from liability for the content until they are aware of specific infringements of the law. Once aware, they must act expeditiously to deal with the problem.

I'm pleased to report that the Internet Society has published a discussion paper looking at different methods being proposed around the world to respond to the use of the Internet to breach Intellectual Property Rights. For each of the approaches - graduated response and suspension of access,  traffic shaping, blocking, content identification and filtering, and DNS manipulation - the paper looks at the implications for the Internet, Internet technologies, access and use.

It seems hard to believe, but Tuesday 12th April 2011 was the first anniversary of the passing of the Digital Economy Act 2010.