“On April 24th, the European Parliament will vote on IPRED2, the Second Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive. With one stroke, they risk turning thousands of innocent EU citizens and businesses into copycriminals … If IPRED2 passes in its current form, ‘aiding, abetting, or inciting’ copyright infringement ‘on a commercial scale’ in the EU will become a crime.”

The article on CopyCrime.eu, here, notes that the fuzzy nature of terms such as “incitement” and “commercial scale” means that many businesses and individuals are put at risk of breaking the new law. Via BoingBoing, here.

Posted Thursday, April 12th, 2007 @ 1:41 pm
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