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Swedish EUCD Further Delayed
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posted by mpawlo
on Friday June 18, @03:34AM
from the praise-the-lord dept.
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According to rumours reported by Ny Teknik the Swedish implementation of the European Copyright Directive may be further delayed. The final suggestion of implementation was expected this fall and the new law should have come into force on January 1, 2005. However, due to a reported immense flood of comments and suggestions the department of justice may not be able to present its final suggestion early fall, which will not make the parliament able to pass the law before the summer of 2005, the earliest.
The Member States (of the European Union) are supposed to change their copyright statues in accordance with Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (often referred to as the Infosoc directive or the European Copyright Directice, "EUCD"). The EUCD states that technical anti-circumvention provisions should be protected as such and a limitation of the scope of copying for personal fair use. The EUCD is being implemented in several Member States, but has already been wideley criticised for its effects on the possibilities to develop fair use anti-circumvention devices, for example independent Linux DVD-players.
The EUCD should have been implemented in December 2002. The EU Commission has therefore issued a reasoned opinion to EU Member States failing to implement the European Copyright Directive in time. Greece and Denmark met the December 2002 implementation deadline. Italy and Austria implemented the Directive in April and June 2003 respectively. The Commission has now decided to send reasoned opinions to the other eleven Member States (Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Sweden and the UK) which are still in the course of implementation. Should a Member State which has received a reasoned opinion fail to give a satisfactory reply within the deadline (usually two months), the Commission may refer the matter to the European Court of Justice.
Read also Efficiency, Innovation, and Transparency - The Future of Intellectual Property Rights.
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