[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcforum] Coyright used for heavy censorship in Italy

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Paolo Brini <paolo.brini at iridiumpg.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:41 AM
Subject: [fcforum] Coyright used for heavy censorship in Italy
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Hello.

The facts:

- Marco Travaglio is a leading journalist (awarded with the german prize
for journalism in 2009 for his worthiness in the fight for the freedom
of press in Italy) who brings to the italian audience inquiries and
research about politicians and government;
- Marco Travaglio uses to put online on YouTube his recorded
speech/inquiries etc.;
- there is another ongoing trial against Google in Italy: Mediaset vs.
Google;
- the tribunal of Rome appointed an expert qualified witness to check
filtering systems of YouTube (ContentID) and forced Google to give him
high privileges access to YouTube in order to perform tests;
- the expert witness starts testing and, among millions and millions of
video, a few days ago deletes a video of journalist Marco Travaglio
talking about Bertolaso (chief of Civil Protection for emergencies in
Italy) suspected by authorities for corruption but strongly defended by
Mr. Berlusconi, President of the Council of Ministers in Italy;
- the deletion is performed for "copyright infringement";
- Google states that it has not been notified of the deletion;
- thanks to the team of Mr. Beppe Grillo and a lot of pressure, Google
gets aware of the situation and restores the video, which obviously does
not infringe copyright.

This is, besides a suspected deliberate act of censorship, yet another,
clear and real world example in Europe about how a notice-and-takedown
regime or any copyright system aimed to take down contents without a
prior and proper judicial overview IS and WILL BE abused, both by
private and public actors, and is and will be used for censorship.

http://beppegrillo.it/2010/02/travaglio_oscurato_per_copyright/index.html

Kind regards,
Paolo Brini



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