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JAN
2013
Posts for Martine Wubben
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OCT
2012
Dutch file sharing website fears exposure and court case
Recent hiccups in the otherwise favourable legal climate towards filesharing and piracy in the Netherlands seems to be have attracted attention from the American Record industry. Last month, after a Dutch court decided that placing links to copyrighted material on a website is prohibited in certain circumstances, the admin of Dutch language file sharing site Jou-site.me seems to takes...24
SEP
2012
Preliminary questions to the ECJ from the Dutch Supreme Court on illegal downloading under the Home Copy Regime
Last week, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands gave judgement in a landmark copyright case that will ultimately determine whether the current lawfulness of downloading from an illegal source under the home copy levy in the Netherlands is sustainable within Europe’s Community law.As we highlighted earlier, the Supreme Court asked several preliminary questions to the European Court of Justice on...07
SEP
2012
Dutch MP aims for fiercer enforcement and rules on hosting activities and cybercrime in the Netherlands
Following recent reports on the not so modest role of the Netherlands in cybercrime and other illegal acts on the internet, Dutch MP Gesthuizen (Socialist Party) asked questions to Minister of Security and Justice Opstelten yesterday. From the questions, it is quite clear that MP Gesthuizen is very committed to creating a more stringent...06
JUL
2012