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dc.contributor.authorRomero Moreno et al, Felipe
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-10T15:45:03Z
dc.date.available2023-05-10T15:45:03Z
dc.date.issued2017-03-23
dc.identifier.citationRomero Moreno et al , F 2017 , Letter to Minister, Ladies, Lords and the Intellectual Property Office concerning criminal sanctions for online copyright infringement included in the Digital Economy Bill . .
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-7545-7740/work/134968939
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/26211
dc.description.abstractWe are a group of campaigners, copyright academics and lawyers. The attached letter outlines how the current wording of Clause 28 DEB on online copyright infringement does not meet the foreseeability and proportionality criteria and as such is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights and EU law. Therefore, we are writing to ask that the new definition of ‘criminal online copyright infringement’ is narrowed in order that it is foreseeable, proportionate and reduces risk of abuse. We suggest to solve this problem by entering thresholds of seriousness into the definition of offences so as to make the Digital Economy Bill compatible with both, the European Convention on Human Rights and EU law. Also, if the suggested thresholds of seriousness were to be incorporated into the Bill, this would protect individuals who received threatening letters from speculative invoicing copyright extortionists.en
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dc.format.extent168025
dc.language.isoeng
dc.subjectDigital Economy Bill
dc.subjectOnline copyright infringement
dc.subjectcriminal sanctions
dc.subjectfile-sharing
dc.subject10 years in prison
dc.subjectEuropean Convention on Human Rights
dc.subjectEU law
dc.subjectPrinciple of foreseeability
dc.subjectPrinciple of proportionality
dc.subjectcommercial-scale online copyright infringement
dc.subjectinitial uploaders
dc.subjectDEB
dc.subjectonline piracy
dc.titleLetter to Minister, Ladies, Lords and the Intellectual Property Office concerning criminal sanctions for online copyright infringement included in the Digital Economy Billen
dc.contributor.institutionHertfordshire Law School
dc.contributor.institutionLaw
rioxxterms.typeConference Paper/Proceeding/Abstract
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