A collaboration between the Free University of Amsterdam, academic authors from different EU Member States, RankOne Media Group (the people behind CDFreaks.com) and Elaborate Bytes AG (producer of CloneDVD)has made it possible, to realize the European Copyright website project: http://www.euro-copyrights.org
The website has been initiated since the United States of America put the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in place. There has been a lot of confusion on the circumvention of copy protections and legislation on these subjects often is not clear and is difficult to understand - especially for the lay-person with little interest in such issues. Not many Europeans know ? only the ones that live in a country, like Germany, where the law has been adapted already - that the European Union has introduced the European Copyright Directive (EUCD) which dramatically changes the legal situation in its member states. Certainly now with European Elections coming up, European legislation is an important issue. Since many complain that the decisions made by the European parliament are not clear, Euro-copyrights.org aims to improve the availability of information about the EUCD. To tackle all these problems before and as they appear, Elaborate Bytes and the RankOne Media Group have teamed up with the Free University of Amsterdam to give answers to daily questions for computer users, like: - Am I still allowed to copy my lawfully obtained Audio-CD or Video-DVD for my private use? - What is the legal difference between protected media and non-protected media? - How and when has the EU Copyright Directive been implemented into national law in which EU Member State? Has it been implemented at all? More information: http://www.euro-copyrights.org/.
The website has been initiated since the United States of America put the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in place. There has been a lot of confusion on the circumvention of copy protections and legislation on these subjects often is not clear and is difficult to understand - especially for the lay-person with little interest in such issues. Not many Europeans know ? only the ones that live in a country, like Germany, where the law has been adapted already - that the European Union has introduced the European Copyright Directive (EUCD) which dramatically changes the legal situation in its member states. Certainly now with European Elections coming up, European legislation is an important issue. Since many complain that the decisions made by the European parliament are not clear, Euro-copyrights.org aims to improve the availability of information about the EUCD. To tackle all these problems before and as they appear, Elaborate Bytes and the RankOne Media Group have teamed up with the Free University of Amsterdam to give answers to daily questions for computer users, like: - Am I still allowed to copy my lawfully obtained Audio-CD or Video-DVD for my private use? - What is the legal difference between protected media and non-protected media? - How and when has the EU Copyright Directive been implemented into national law in which EU Member State? Has it been implemented at all? More information: http://www.euro-copyrights.org/.
