[pp.int.general] [Cafe] urgent: data retention and downloading

[Erik Josefsson]

Erik Josefsson wrote:

> I'll dig up some more references.

Already on the IFPI wish-list in 2003, "joint investigation teams":

   "Member States should develop a mechanism by which information about
   IP offences can be shared among law enforcement officials,
   prosecutors, administrative officials and private industry."
http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/news/information_dossiers/forum_prevention_crime/doc/speech_iain_grant_300103_en.pdf

and transposed into the Commission's IPRED2-proposal:

   Article 7
   Joint investigation teams
   The Member States must ensure that the holders of intellectual
   property rights concerned, or their representatives, and experts, are
   allowed to assist the investigations carried out by joint
   investigation teams into the offences referred to in Article 3.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2006:0168:FIN:EN:PDF


IFPI also has an urge to control device manufacturers:

   "These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all
   know it," UMG chairman/CEO Doug Morris says. "So it's time to get
   paid for it."
   http://action.ffii.org/ipred2/Plenary1_Tabled_Amendments/Consequences

expressed in an amendment to IPRED2 (acceptance="unless you check you
are liable"):

    3. "intentional infringements of an intellectual property right"
    means deliberate and conscious infringement of the right concerned
    for the purpose of obtaining an economic advantage on a commercial
    scale, or acceptance of such infringement.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/am/646/646383/646383en.pdf

I have a good source to that the amendment was written by IFPI.

//Erik