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The global legal battle by international and national bodies representing the phonographic industry against allegedly illegal file-sharers has moved to the UK. So far, actions against P2P file-sharing networks sharers have been pursued in the USA by the RIAA and in Denmark, Germany, and Italy by the IFPI or its affiliates. Networks involved include KaZaA, WinMX, eMule and iMesh. At the beginning of October, British Phonographic Industry (the IFPI's UK affiliate) announced it was taking legal action against 28 UK-based files-sharers using e.g., the KaZaA, Imesh, Grokster, Bearshare and WinMX networks....

Court cases concerning crimes against humanity are of historic interest, within the meaning of Article 1 of the Act of 11 July 1985 in favour of the constitution of audiovisual court archives (currently Article 2221 of the Heritage Code) and as such may be broadcast by audiovisual means. Under Article 8(2) of the same text, broadcasting a court case of this kind is possible if it is authorised by the Presiding Judge of the Regional Court on condition that a final judgment has been delivered and the case has been closed. Thus in 2002 and 2003 the Histoire theme channel had been refused authorisation...

On 16 June 2004, the Sähköisen viestinnän tietosuojalaki (Act on Data Protection in Electronic Communications) was ratified. It entered into force on 1 September 2004. The Act repeals the Laki yksityisyyden suojasta televiestinnässä ja teletominnan tietoturvasta, 565/1999 (Act on the Protection of Privacy and Data Security in Telecommunications). The new Act aims at safeguarding confidentiality and protection of privacy in electronic communications. It extends the protection of privacy and the confidentiality of communications from the telecoms sector alone to every activity of the information...

Hamburg Landgericht (Regional Court) has ruled that an author who believed his copyright had been infringed has a right to information from an Internet provider under Art. 101a of the Copyright Act. The applicant, a firm operating in the sound recording industry, claimed that sound recordings were unlawfully available for downloading from the server of the respondent, an Internet provider. The applicant requested information about the particulars of one of the respondent's customers who manages this FTP server and supplies the storage and computer capacity needed for the content. The FTP server...

In a decision of 14 October 2004, the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) declared that judgments handed down by the European Court of Human Rights are not always binding on German courts. The Bundesverfassungsgericht referred the case back to the Oberlandesgericht (Court of Appeal), which, it ruled, was not bound by the earlier judgment by the ECHR. International agreements were incorporated into German law by formal enactment of legislation and had the status of a federal law. German courts should therefore observe and apply the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)...