With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain can block any (for-profit or non-profit) website, from Spain or overseas, that _links_ to copyrighted works. Including Google, Wikipedia or whatever. Without a judge.
For further details, search for an analysis. 2012/1/4 Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org> > We should be careful to start calling all copyright related laws evil (at > least you seem to suggest that) because then that would devaluate very > quickly. At least what I see quickly (but IANALawyer and IANASpaniard) this > law is not thát evil: the government can ask to close a website that is > actually infringing, and the actual enforcement remains with the courts (an > ISP is allowed to disagree, and leave it to an impartial judge). What would > be more dangerous is if there would be no judge involved, if linking to > content alone is enough to block the site, if there are no copyright > exeptions (Freedom of Speech etc) to be considered, etc. You can't really > condemn every law trying to enforce copyright - but you should try to find > a way that is least harmful (especially for 'innocent sites'), fair and > considering other (ground)rights. > > L > > No dia 3 de Janeiro de 2012 09:26, Kim Bruning <k...@bruning.xs4all.nl > >escreveu: > > > > > Looks like .us is pushing other countries to implement similar laws, eg. > > .es : > > > > > > > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/0241248/spanish-website-blocking-law-implemented > > > > sincerely, > > Kim Bruning > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
