NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: Medina proposal abandoned in Europe
Stefano Quintarelli schrieb: > http://www.ecrans.fr/Europe-Le-rapport-pro-riposte,6438.html > > fresh news. > > The Medina proposal included the "graduated response" (aka 3 strikes), > filtering and responsibilities for ISPs. > > the proposal has been deferred "sine die"; most likely never, as sources > familiar with the matter say. I got this message on the Open Net Coalition[1] list with approval for distribution: -------------8<-------------- I have received confirmation (there had been rumours for the last day or two) that the Legal Affairs Committee has definitively abandoned the Medina Ortega report on copyright. Officially, the report has been simply removed from the agenda, but in the understanding that it will not reappear. The reason given by the Socialist Group (the group of Medina Ortega) was that they did not want a "war" of competing resolutions. It seems reasonable to assume that this means that they expected their proposal to be defeated by other planned alternative resolutions. As the "experts" in copyright, it is a significant blow for the Legal Affairs Committee which, I imagine, will not be grateful to the lobbying interests that pushed them towards adopting a text that was so controversial that it had to be abandoned before the plenary vote. This success was the result of excellent cooperation between various organisations such as Euroispa, the European Libraries Bureau, the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, the European Consumers Bureau and others. ----------------------------------------- Innocenzo Genna (director AIIP and Euroispa) -------------8<-------------- [1] <http://www.co-ment.net/text/711/>