Definition

Online Piracy - Online (Copyright) Piracy/File sharing (cyber law, intellectual property law) [Ro.: Piraterie digitală/informatică, Fr.: La piraterie sur Internet/piratage informatique, Sp.: Piratería informática, It. La Pirateria informatica] = when a person copies a file/video/software etc. and shares it for profit through the internet as means. In some jurisdictions, it constitutes a criminal offence. However, those who commit online piracy are often hard to trace; for example, if one site that shares such files is shut down, there are high chances that it will appear again under a new web address.

 

Useful links

Legislation

https://upfr.ro/ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/legea-8-1996-forma-sintetica-pentru-martie-2018.pdf - Romanian Law no. 8/1996 regarding copyright, Article 1396 (6) [Romanian]

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/pdfs/ukpga_19880048_en.pdf - UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 [English UK]

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/24/pdfs/ukpga_20100024_en.pdf - UK Digital Economy Act 2010 [English Uk]

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32001L0029 - Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of May 22 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society [All the EU countries languages]

https://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/treaties/en/berne/trt_berne_001en.pdf - Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works [English]

https://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/treaties/en/wct/trt_wct_001en.pdf - WIPO Copyright Treaty [English]

http://www.tauvisual.com/copyrightlaws/convenzione_internazionale_copyright_ginevra1952.pdf - Universal Copyright Convention [English]

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-105publ304/pdf/PLAW-105publ304.pdf - US Digital Millennium Copyright Act [English US]

https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/text/443327 - Spanish Law on Intellectual Property, regularizing, clarifying and harmonizing the Applicable Statutory Provisions (approved by Royal Legislative Decree No. 1/1996 of April 12, 1996, and amended up to Law No. 12/2017 of 3 July, 2017) [Spanish]

http://www.portolano.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/English-translation-of-the-IT-Regulation-on-the-copyright.pdf - Italian Regulation on the copyright enforcement on electronic communications networks and implementation procedures pursuant to legislative decree of April 9, 2003, no. 70 [English]

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/telecharger_pdf.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006069414 – French Code of Intellectual Property [French]

Organisations and associations

https://www.hadopi.fr/ - Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Œuvres et la Protection des droits d'auteur sur Internet

https://www.wipo.int/portal/en/index.html - World Intellectual Property Organisation

https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en - European Union Intellectual Property Office

http://www.tiplo.org/links/4540890955 - The Intellectual Property Lawyers Organisation

Case law

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=191707&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=2775021 - EU Court of Justice, Stichting Brein v. Ziggo, 2017

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=190142&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=2776408 - EU Court of Justice, Stichting Brein v. Jack Frederik Wullems, 2017

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=183124&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=2779041 - EU Court of Justice, GS Media BV v Sanoma Media Netherlands BV and Others, 2016

Online publications

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3058680, Frosio, G., To Filter or Not to Filter? That Is the Question in EU Copyright Reform, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, 2018

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2176246, Peukert, C., Claussen, J., Kretschmer, T., Piracy and Box Office Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, 2017

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=827825, Priest, E., The Future of Music and Film Piracy in China, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 21, 2006

Publications

Schwarz, J., 2014, Online file sharing : innovations in media consumption, New York : Routledge

Strenc, A., C., 2010, Tehnologia informației: protejarea și respectarea dreptului proprietății intelectuale, București, Universul Juridic

Vasiu, I., 2014, Dreptul Tehnologiei, Informațiilor și Comunicațiilor, Cluj-Napoca, Ed. Albastră

 

By Oana Bahnean