[x-pubpol] Italian Communication Authority issues online copyright enforcement regulation

[Joly MacFie]

http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2013/12/italian-communication-authority-issues.html


The Regulation, which will enter into force on 31 March 2014, follows
AGCOM's own consideration<http://www.agcom.it/Default.aspx?message=visualizzadocument&DocID=12174>
that
something must be done at the level of public institutions to contrast
digital piracy. The Regulation is aimed at "*massive violations*", not
individual users and P2P activities. As such, the Regulation "*does not
affect online freedoms at all*".




Similarly to what was recently recommended in France by the Lescure
Report<http://www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr/var/culture/storage/culture_mag/rapport_lescure/index.htm#/>
 (here<http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/lescure-report-on-cultural-exception-in.html>
 and here<http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/not-so-fast-french-minsitry-of-culture.html>),
the Regulation emphasises how more effective enforcement must go hand in
hand with the promotion of legal content offers, education and information
of consumers *[notably younger ones]*, and adoption of codes of conduct.

Overall, the Regulation contains a detailed discipline of an innovative *[also
in the sense that AGCOM not only drafted and adopted the Regulation, but
will be also competent to apply it ... Is that L'Etat c'est moi
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France> 2.0 or what?]* "notice
and takedown" procedure that is intended - among other things - to be
particularly swift and effective.

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