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Video from the Swiss TV news where the IFPI.ch spokesperson announces that they will ask ISP's to cut the connection of people using P2P for copyrighted works

The Joel Tenenbaum file-swapping case continues to get weirder--and we're still months away from an actual trial. Not only has the RIAA now appealed the judge's order allowing one particular hearing to be webcast, but music industry lawyers are now seeking sanctions on Tenenbaum's lawyer, Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson.

The commission did not assess a fine, but it ordered Comcast to stop cutting off transfers of large data files among customers who use a special type of file-sharing software. [(free) registration needed to read the whole article]

it will have a far broader scope, and in particular, will deal with new tools targeting "Internet distribution and information technology"

A landmark study by the Institute of European Media Law (EML) found that a levy on internet usage legalising non-commercial online exchanges of creative works conforms with German and European copyright law, even though it requires changes in both. The German and European factions of the Green Party who had commissioned the study will make the "culture flat-rate," as the model is being called in Germany, an issue in their policies. The global debate on a new social contract between creatives and society is getting more pronounced by the day. Two models are emerging: a free-market approach based on private blanket licences and voluntary subscriptions, and a legal licence approach based on exceptions in copyright law and mandatory levies, that now has been proven legally feasible and appropriate by the EML study.

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