Aol Fourth Dimension Warner To Recruit European Anti-Piracy Counsel

In today’ Times, AOL Time Warner is advertising to recruit a dedicated “European Anti-Piracy Counsel.” The seat has arisen “due to a pregnant growth inwards cyberspace as well as difficult goods audio-visual piracy.” The lucky appointee volition receive got a varied diet of work, including “negotiating” amongst offending parties as well as their lawyers, developing “technology-driven anti-piracy systems as well as solutions” (in other words, anti-circumvention devices) as well as lobbying for the protection of Warner Bros’ rights throughout the European region.

Although “piracy” hasn’t reached the same score inwards Europe every bit inwards the U.S. of A. because fewer Europeans receive got access to high-speed cyberspace access, the IPKat suspects that the creation of this seat foretells a US-style approach to combating the problem. This is afterwards all an American society creating a chore amongst an American-sounding name. The visit of “negotiating” amongst infringers reminds the IPKat of the approach that has been adopted inwards the States, especially RIAA’s “Clean Slate” programme (where downloaders own-up as well as undertake to take away illegal downloads from their hard-drives inwards supply for a hope that RIAA volition non prosecute them) as well as the serial of settlements that receive got come upwards out of the 261 cases that RIAA has filed against alleged illegal downloaders. also wonders if lobbying for Warner Bros’ rights volition essentially hateful lobbying for US-style protection to live on extended to Europe.

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