ISPs welcome EU consultation on takedown procedures
18 January 2012
Simon Crompton
European ISPs say new plans from the European Commission to harmonise practice on taking down copyright-infringing websites are long overdue, even though they could leave them with more responsibility to police the net
In December last year Werner Stengg, head of online services at the Internal Market Directorate, hinted that the Commission’s review of the E-Commerce Directive would lead to recommendations to reassess ISP’s notice and action procedures.
The review, released on January 11, uses the term ‘notice and action’ to include both takedown procedures and the blocking of access to the internet.
The conclusions of the review contained "very little that...
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