Chris Cantell Discusses DRM: Obstacles with protection of authors' rights by Sandra Stoklaskova

Are you a fan of music? Do you download music files from the Internet or share them with other users? If the answer to these questions is yes, you should be careful, not to face different obstacles. These days you hear a lot about Amazon.com or Yahoo.com for example, which want to offer free music files without the protection of authors' rights. Even though, the question is, if this is legal.Yesterday the Europe's superior court handled a problem of protecting author's rights, due to the fact that Spanish Internet providers refused to identify customers sharing music online to the Spanish supporters of author's rights. Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice responded to this: "The protection of authors' rights can not affect the requirements of the protection of personal data"This case was brought to the Spanish court by a non-profit organization of music procedures and publishers, called Promusicae, because their revenues decreased sharply, due to pirated downloads and file-sharing. Telesommunication provider Telefonica, refused to hand over personal information. Promusicae wanted them to disclose identities and also addresses of people, to whom they had provided Internet access services. Telefonica said in its ruling, that consigning personal information was authorized in Spain only in criminal investigation or to defend public security and national defence.It was found out, that the rights of protection of property must be reconciled with privacy laws. This fact and also the ability of EU nations to obligate revealing of personal data was appreciated by a lot of industry groups, as well as individuals.

by Sandra Stoklaskova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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