Why should I care

  EUCD - nothing to worry about? - response to a posting on Slashdot concerning the article The EU's Answer to the DMCA

Past Events

We held a mini-conference in London to promote awareness of the European Union Copyright Directive and its likely effects on innovation, consumers and the information society on 29 April 2002

Recordings of the event are now available in various formats.

Links

Here are a list of links that we have found interesting or relevant. Please note, however, that these only scratch the surface of the information that is available. You will find many more articles on any subject of your choosing by doing searches on Google or other search engines.

EUCD resources

Other Intellectual Property Law resources

Background on the EUCD

The Society of Archivists commented on the draft EUCD

  http://www.pro.gov.uk/about/copyright/copyrightdraft.htm - archived at Wayback Engine

The Libraries ran a very effective campaign to influence the final shape of the EUCD, one of the few consumer groups that chose to represent themselves during its evolution

The Foundation for Information Policy Research, an independent body that studies the interaction between information technology and society, has decided to take up research and education activities around the EUCD

Other relevant articles:

Theory and history of copyright

What's wrong with copy-protection, and related concerns

Comment on the case of Dmitry Sklyarov

Academic `chilling' effect of DMCA and EUCD legislation

DMCA-related articles

AAP's arguments in support of the DMCA (frighteningly Victorian in feeling):

SSSCA text and related info ("They want to turn your computer into a WebTV, and the internet into yet another content-distribution channel").

"What you should know about the Hague convention":