The air is tense around copyright’s matter..

In the last days harsh controversies and demostrations esploded, mainly
in Germany, despite the terrible cold, against the Acta (Anti-Counterfeiting
Trade Agreement), the anti-counterfeiting agreement signed in Tokyo last
January, 26th, by around 40 Countries: Usa, Canada, Australia, Japan, South
Corea, Marocco, Mexico, Switzerland and 22 of the 27 EU members.

The demostrators don’t believe that this multi-national agreement will
only fight piracy, but they are deeply convinced that this agreement will put
at risk the freedom on the Internet. Moreover today the Bulgarian Government
decided to suspend the ratification of the treaty because they  believe that the Bulgarian law are sufficient
to protect the Intellectual Property right.

Today represent an important “turning point”: the European Court of
Justice pronounced its definitive sentence on the case Sabam /Netlog. The
Belgian Sabam is the company that manage the rights of the authors while Netlog
NV is a company that run a social network like Facebook. As in the previous
case of the last months between Sabam and Scarlet, once more the Court of
Justice consider incompatible with the EU’s right to oblige the manager of a
social network to filter every kind of information concerning its client trying
to find those who make illicit things.

If you would like to read the judgement of the court:

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=119512&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=161927