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Finland Postpones EUCD Implementation
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posted by mpawlo
on Saturday February 01, @03:41AM
from the really-smart dept.
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Electronic Frontier Finland reports that the Finnish parliament returns the proposed Finnish implementation of the European Copyright Directive, EUCD, (sometimes referred to as the Infosoc directive) back to the ministry, that originally drafted it. The EUCD is a version of the WIPO Copyright Treaty, that also served as inspiration for the U.S. Digital Millenium Copyright Act. The EUCD should have been implemented in all EU's member states in December 22, 2002, but the implementation has been heavily dealyed in all countries but Denmark and Greece.
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The main reason for the rare dismissal in Finland was, according to Electronic Frontier Finland, that the Finnish Parliament was concerned with the unclearness of the law, specifically regarding the anti-circumvention provisions with criminal sanctions.
In a press release, Electronic Frontier Finland's vice-chairman Ville Oksanen states:
'We have of course always the risk
that the next proposal, whenever it comes, is even more pro-content
industry. Luckily, itīs only theoretical because it's now clear the
parliament won't take the content industry's argument "more protection is always better" for granted anymore.'
Read the press statement from Electronic Frontier Finland.
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