EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT STOPS 'DOCRINE SARKOSY'

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It is spreading in Europe and not just the Doctrine Sarkozy, France and the rapidly caught the interest of the political class to many different countries, but in Europe could suffer a final stop. Yesterday in Brussels, the European Parliament rejected the foundations of that doctrine, denying that to fight copyright infringement can disconnect a user from the network.

The decision must be approval of the report of French Guy Bono on cultural industries in Europe,with a speech which calls for a European strategy and new funding for culture. Within that text was also inserted an amendment proposed by MEPs radical Marco Pannella and Marco Cappato with which the European Commission and the Council of European Ministers being asked not to follow the path French. One way that, as you know, is based on a new relationship between rights-holders and providers to identify users who violations, third offense, after the first warnings and suspensions of access can be disconnected from the Internet.

In particular amendment, after acknowledging that "the Internet is a wide space for the expression of culture, access to knowledge, participation European democratic creativity, cohesion between the generations thanks to the information society" calls Commission and the Council to "avoid measures contrary to civil liberties, human rights and principles of proportionality and effectiveness dissuasività, such as cutting off access to the Internet."
An amendment all the more relevant when one considers the current flow of legislation and the strong pressure to intervene because the disconnections as a deterrent violations committed on the Internet, particularly on the platform peer-to-peer networks.