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TCPA / Palladium FAQ - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Ross Anderson's analysis of Intel's TCPA and Microsoft's Palladium, technologies for digital rights management which may well have implications upon the implementation of the EUCD. |
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EUROPA - Internal Market - Intellectual Property - Official Documents - http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/documents/documents_en.htm
Repository of European Union Directives, Proposals and Reports on Intellectual Property legislations, in PDF format. |
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Why the Copyright Directive is Unimportant, and Possibly Invalid - http://www.ivir.nl/publications/hugenholtz/opinion-EIPR.html
Analysis by Dutch law professor Bernt Hugenholtz. |
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FIPR - Policy Work - http://www.fipr.org/policy.html
The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is an independent organisation researching the effects of new legislation and lobbying UK Government parties for the provision of academic and personal freedom. |
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Alan Cox Attacks the European DMCA - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/04/30/alan_cox_attacks_the_european/
Article covering Alan Cox's speech at the Campaign for Digital Rights meeting [Register] |
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The EU's Answer to the DMCA - http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/27/2326226
"You thought the DCMA was bad? Well EU Directive 2001/29/EU is due to be passed into individual country law next year." News and discussion forum. [Slashdot] |
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EUCD - Copyright Extensions that Harm - http://silvaneves.org/eucd/eucd.en.html
Risks of monopolies on file formats, reduced interoperability, insecurity, and limits on free speech. |
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Digital Copyright Clampdown to Jump the Atlantic - http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ=1004218894&6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=48623&REQSTR1=MSN
"While US campaigners are up in arms about the US's notorious Digital Millennium Copyright Act, few people realise that even more extreme legislation is coming to the UK via Brussels." |
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Status of Cryptography Research in Implementation of the EUCD - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2002-August/020120.html
UKcrypto forum thread discussing cryptography issues in the implementation of the EUCD. |
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UK Campaigners Call for Anti 'Anti-rip' CD Day of Action - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/10/04/uk_campaigners_call_for_anti/
"Campaigners will take to the streets of Britain this Saturday (6 October) in a bid to raise public awareness of the music industry's attempts to prevent listeners from copying CDs or playing discs on PCs." By Tony Smith. [Register] |