Italy Implements EU Copyright Directive, modeled after U.S. DMCA

[wessman]

Italy Implements EU Copyright Directive
from the an-offer-to-refuse dept.
posted by timothy on Saturday April 26, @15:56 (doj)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/1929207

Rozzo writes "On 29 April 2003 in Italy will be effective a new law modeled from DMCA, called EUCD, under European Community directives, which seems a very bad thing :-( Italy will tax also every music or video recording support (cdr, dvdr, videotapes...) often doubling it's actual street price. it's a tribute of 0.33$ for each hour of music recordable on a cdr, 1$ every 4.7Gb on recordable dvd... TV, radios and medias quite didn't mention this new law to the public ... fearing a mass disapproval as [0]happened in Finland. Read [1]more about it (in English) here. You can check the [2]status of the EUCD threatening law. Starting 29 April 2003 that new law and tributes will be applied, and the masses will know about it and (perhaps...;-) react. Here's an [3]Open Letter to the Italian 'culture commission'."

Links:
0. http://www.effi.org/julkaisut/tiedot...003-01-31.html
1. http://www.ipjustice.org/041603.htm
2. http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status
3. http://softwarelibero.org/progetti/e...n-letter.shtml

[NDGAARONDI]

it's a good thing that member States of the EU don not have to directly implement directives, stupid as it sounds lol

Say wessman, you seem to post a lot on the ol' legal issues :fire

[wessman]

Originally posted by NDGAARONDI
Say wessman, you seem to post a lot on the ol' legal issues

I just post interesting stuff I see on the Tech News wires.