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Günther Oettinger told Handelsblatt on Tuesday that he wants to introduce an EU-wide copyright law that would extract money from U.S. firms such as Google, as well as from European users.
The European Commission’s competition head has said Google’s latest proposals still don’t eliminate the Commission’s concerns — but the company still has a chance to tweak them.
A report by Europe’s cybersecurity agency points out several flaws with the proposed ‘right to be forgotten’. A big one has to do with the challenges presented by the increasing use of aggregated data.
The Federal Trade Commission is taking a close look at the use of “standards essential” patents in the smartphone patent wars, Chairman Jon Liebowitz said Thursday, implying that the use of those patents in a quest seeking an injunction is troubling to the agency.
Europe and America have different views on freedom of speech and privacy. But with British and French legislators both challenging the idea…
She may not be convinced of the name, but “cloud” computing has risen close to top of European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes’ 2012…
The European Commission reckons it could unlock €110 ($147.99/£93.27) billion a year in new digital business by harmonising rules for the…
For the last few years European regulators have been pushing mobile companies to slash the roaming charges they slap on customers who cross…
The US government and the European Commission today gave the green light to Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobil…
An influential European privacy body has urged Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to “pause” its new privacy policy due to be implemented in March. The Art…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Ge…
The European Commission is proposing to legislate to force all the continent’s public bodies to open up their data for re-use by citizens an…
A French company has filed a new claim to reflect the harm it says it incurred after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) unplugged it from its AdWords progr…
After carrying out unannounced inspections at the companies back in March, the European Commission is now starting a formal antitrust invest…
The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. may have dealt what might possibly be a fatal blow to AT&T (NYSE: T) in its bid to buy T-M…
The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. may have dealt what might possibly be a fatal blow to AT&T (NYSE: T) in its bid to buy T-M…
The European Commission has opened an anti-trust inquiry in to whether a group of banks has conspired to prevent new online payment facilita…
One of the services whose complaint sparked the European Commission’s competition investigation in to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is leapfrogging th…
One month after a deadline by which European states must make most kinds of online data collection – including by cookies – opt-in, only fiv…
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
–Sony: Sony (NYSE: SNE) has yet to give specific details on when and where we will firs…
Facebook must have been tripping if it thought it could enable automatic photo face-tagging without also automatically tripping the interest…
At the recent G8 meeting in Paris, Mark Zuckerberg told French president Nicolas Sarkozy, hosting the event, the internet needs light-touch…
“French publishers can rejoice,” reports the country’s L’Express. “They should now be able to impose a single selling price for all digital…
A key European Union governmental privacy group has published a key document [PDF] with recommendations about locational privacy, and it’s l…
Mediabank, one of a number of companies that is trying to expand the methods of online media buying to traditional media ad sales, has acqui…
The European Commission has decided against introducing legislation to protect net neutrality, saying media scrutiny and giving consumers en…
A European Court of Justice official is finding against a verdict which said a Belgian ISP should filter out copyright-infringing content fr…
While a European Commission inquiry continues, UK culture minister Ed Vaizey has rejected calls for a national investigation in to Google’s…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which was itself fined billions by the European Commission’s antitrust department, senses blood in that department’s…
Earlier this week, when EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding laid out the privacy rules she expects social-networking sites and other onli…
The European Union is to enshrine a “right to be forgotten online” to ensure that, among other things, prospective employers cannot find old…
A new European Union directive will require websites to get consent of users every time information gets stored on their computers, and now…
French authorities have finally got some kind of ruling against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) – but it turns out to be rather toothless.
The competit…
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is about to get its most significant scrutiny yet by the European Commission, whose antitrust department is opening a fo…
What’s the rap lyric? “Mo’ money mo’ problems?” Or better yet, “with success comes stress?” Well, in the corporate world, oversized success…
AnyClip CEO Aaron Cohen has left the company and has been replaced by former Fandango CEO Art Levitt. The move comes as AnyClip has so far failed to line up the content partnerships it needs to make clips from films available through the service.
Who’d be a big American web company in Europe?
Two of the biggest, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Facebook, have been facing scrutiny in the union…
One way Greece hopes to extricate itself from its economic crisis? Tax its news websites.
In pension reform law due to be voted upon by par…
So, what did the private WiFi data that Google disclosed last month it had been mistakenly collecting consist of? French data protection off…
Poor Facebook. It’s in the midst of a very loud uprising by the tech elite over its latest batch of privacy changes — and it’s still being…
By Paul Harris: Britain’s privacy watchdog has joined senior government officials from nine other countries to push Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to a…
By Mark Sweney: The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today ruled in favour of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in a long-running court battle with Louis V…
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has loudly suggested that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is behind the European Commission’s preliminary antitrust inquiry into…
It certainly has not been the best week for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in Europe: The EC opened a preliminary antitrust inquiry against the company…
Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which has faced three antitrust inquiries in the U.S. over the last year, is now facing its first in Europe. The WSJ sa…
Windows 95’s big OS-browser integration is now but a memory – from March 1, and likely through gritted teeth, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will st…
French president Nicolas Sarkozy went down pretty badly with ISPs, mobile operators and commercial broadcasters when in 2008 he announced he…
Four of Germany’s largest media groups are set to form a shared web advertising network, after winning clearance from the European Commissio…
The battle of the browser is over, at least for a while… The European Commission’s anti-trust department said on Wednesday that it has acc…
Europe’s information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding is moving on from the portfolio after five years, instead shifting to run…
The European Commission is not taking any action against Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and has stopped investigating the chipmaker after four lookin…
Europeans should only lose their internet connection after a “a prior, fair and impartial procedure”, according to new legislation passed in…
Remember when the European Commission threatened the UK with legal action over its online privacy and data protection laws in April? The EC…
The race is on to digitise Europe’s out-of-print books and EC media commissioner Viviane Reding says Europe can beat Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in…
It appears increasingly likely that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will finally settle its long-standing litigation with the European Commission. Th…
No new laws are needed to tackle piracy, according to the European Commission, which says information sharing and research between nations i…
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will ask European book publishers’ permission before making their works available to U.S. users, in a bid to stay on the…
Given all the controversy, legal action and anti-trust scrutiny surrounding Google’s plans to digitise millions of books, the search giant h…
EU media commissioner Viviane Reding is still serious about her plans to introduce a single, cross-border European market for online payment…
The European Commission has threatened to stop cooperating with the U.S. in the fight against piracy if the U.S doesn’t make its copyright…
Microsoft’s latest offer to the European Commission, which is threatening the company with a big fine for bundling Internet Explorer and Win…
Newspaper publishers are petitioning Europe’s media commissioner against free use of their material by aggregators, in what looks like their…
European media commissioner Viviane Reding has set out her vision for a “Digital Europe”, with four key points including a plea to resolve t…
Despite the rhetoric, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and the European Commission may actually be on speaking terms. The two parties are in early tal…
State-funded broadcasters can spend their money to launch online services – as long as new services pass the same public value tests applied…
[qi:063] The European Commission, which has been a staunch protector of privacy, may consider tighter regulations about sharing a user’s data with…
In an attempt to head off a potential antitrust ruling and hefty fine from the European Commission, Microsoft has announced it will remove i…
Europe’s trade ministers have asked the European Commission executive to examine Google’s Books search project after Germany complained the…
In the continuing game of cat-and-mouse, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has refused to attend an upcoming European Commission antitrust hearing agai…
Ignore any bad stuff we’re doing, and just think about what Google (NSDQ: GOOG) might be able to do if we weren’t around. That appears to be…
The European Commission’s package of proposed telecoms reforms will now have to go to conciliation after European parliamentarians, in a sur…
European Parliamentarians have watered down their opposition to France implementing its three-strikes anti-piracy measure, instead striking…
The US military and academia may have given the world the internet, but the European Commission’s media and telco commissioner Vivianne Redi…
The European Commission has accepted the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) – a tech group representing IBM, Adobe (NSDQ: A…
France’s national assembly on Thursday voted in favour of the most hotly-contested part of a proposed new anti-piracy bill. The Creation And…
The European Commission’s consumer affairs commissioner has warned web companies they will have to play ball on internet privacy. Meglena Ku…
The chances of European music copyright being almost doubled appear to dimming after the UK government and a minority of other member states…
The European Parliament is standing up to France’s “graduated response” plan to tackle internet piracy, which would disconnect illegal downl…
After a European Parliament committee voted for the European Commission’s proposed roaming data and SMS price caps earlier this month, membe…
The European Parliament
The European Commission is relaxing rules on how Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) must comply with an earlier ruling that it broke competition regulat…
Joiningthedocs.tv, a new pay-per-view broadband channel for independent documentary films, will announce at the Berlin Film Festival on Mond…
Neelie Kroes is still pawing Steve Ballmer around like a mouse. Europe’s competition commissioner confirmed this morning she sent a “stateme…
A group of European Parliamentarians has asked the institution to reject plans to cap SMS and data roaming charges across the continent. The…
The British music industry had always eschewed American cousins’ penchant for suing illegal downloaders. Now America’s RIAA music org has co…
Europe’s national telecom ministers have consented to European Commission plans to further cap roaming data and SMS charges, but have stood…
Cheaper European mobile data roaming may move a step closer Thursday, when telecoms ministers from around the bloc meet in Brussels to discu…
We already knew that European Union telecom ministers are meeting Thursday to discuss price caps on cross-border text messaging and mobile w…
The French Senate voted 297-to-15 for the proposed graduated-response measure, which would penalise those who download illegal material onli…
EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding has backed down on her proposed reforms of the European Union’s telecoms market, including her contr…
EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding has backed down on her proposed reforms of the European Union’s telecoms market, including her contr…
We haven’t, to my mind, even hit on a workable definition of “Web 2.0” yet (and it’s questionable whether iterations can even be appropriate…
European parliamentarians have voted for wide-ranging telecoms regulation reform, including an amendment that would force ISPs to go to cour…
The maximum charge for text messaging within the European Union has been set at 11 euro cents, EU telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding confi…
The proposed ad partnership between Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues to gather opposition… The latest is the World Fed…
We pretty much knew the European Commission would be looking over Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) planned deal to run ads from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) when…
Following European telecom commissioner Viviane Reding’s call last week to reduce and cap roaming data and SMS charges (see our post), news…
Two new government initiatives to crack down on rogue mobile phone services: Just days after the EU said it would force operators to lower S…
Two new government initiatives to crack down on rogue mobile phone services: Just days after the EU said it would force operators to lower S…
Digital music providers welcomed today’s EC decision to end Europe’s country-by-country royalties collection system, a move that will make i…
Here it is: After months of threats and warnings, the European Commission announced today that it will end
Here it is: After months of threats and warnings, the European Commission announced today that it will end
The European Commission is expected to announce tomorrow that it will propose legislation to cut the cost of sending and receiving text mess…
Though the European Commission last week told me Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) hadn’t flagged its Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search partnership to its antitru…
Two European Parliament committees last night approved the so-called EU Telecoms Package, a wide-ranging set of housekeeping measures on tel…
Throwing a small lifeline to newspapers coping with the twin pressures of digital investment and falling print revenue, European media commi…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have elected not to seek the European Commission’s permission for their ad sharing deal – but tha…
Car makers are facing newer and stricter emissions regulations all over the world. In Europe, the debate over proposals to curb carbon…
Hardware makers meet politicians and copyright societies in Brussels today to discuss introducing a Europe-wide levy on media devices, offse…
New laws that came in to force on Bank Holiday Monday should give pause to marketers using blogs, social media and the web in general. The n…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has applied to Europe’s Court of First Instance to appeal part of the record 899 million euro antitrust fine it was h…
This could put the cat amongst the pigeons. European Parliament members have voted in favour of outlawing the kind of ISP disconnection poli…
Europe’s Article 29 Working Party on data privacy, which advises the European Commission executive, has concluded search engines should redu…
The European Commission today introduced rules to harmonize the technical and licensing requirements for using mobile devices and services o…
ISPs who agree to filter illegal music and video out of P2P or other networks would have to tell subscribers about the practice – and let th…
The European Commission has cleared France
The European Commission has cleared France’s 99 million euro state aid for Quaero, a Euro-centric multimedia search index being built by a c…
The European Union launched an enquiry on Monday to examine whether U.S. laws aimed at foreign online gambling firms break international tra…
The European Commission has fined Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) 899 million euros ($1.3 billion; £680.9 million) (its biggest ever antitrust penal…
This speculative Telegraph.co.uk story notes the European Commission’s recent antitrust cases against Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be a hurd…
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley called on Europe to simplify its content licensing systems. “It would be great, at this point, on the publish…
European information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding has virtually rubbished French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal to ta…
The European Union’s group of data privacy regulators said Monday that internet protocol (IP) addresses should generally be regarded as pers…
In what must rank as one of the most ironic and peculiar of online legal manoeuvres, Copiepress – the copyright group for French and German…
Us pesky Europeans… with our… separate countries and… distinct national jurisdictions! This NYT piece nibbles at the likely reason App…
Google Calendar just became instantly better for me thanks to a useful tip at the Google Operating System blog. If you associate…
The European Commission launched a new antitrust investigation into Microsoft on Monday, to determine if the software company broke EU compe…
Just as the UK embarks on its own review of public-service digital media, along comes another European Commission effort. Brussels yesterday…
You can taste the reluctance in this move. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) just announced it will lower UK iTunes Store prices (£0.79 per track) by the…
Updated below: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is close to coming to an agreement with European Commission on charges that its iTunes stores broke EU rul…
The European Commission’s Audiovisual Media Services directive, agreed in May to replace the 1989 Television Without Frontiers rules, is lik…
The European Commission has today finalised its Creative Content Online In The Single Market paper and will publish proposals for pan-contin…
Update: The US Federal Trade Commission announced its approval this morning. Details at our sister site paidContent.org.
Beuc, the pan-Euro…
Norwegian web browser maker Opera has filed a complaint with the European Commission claiming that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is abusing its dom…
Europe could follow France in proposing a law that would shut down all internet access for those caught illegally sharing files. We reported…
So this is how Europe’s new Audio-Visual Media Services (AVMS) directive will be implemented in the UK. Drawn up by the commission in May an…
On the heels of Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) claims to the EU that a Google/DoubleClick alliance will have a negative effect on competition in the o…
TV shows filled with web clips don’t work (R.I.P. Online Nation, Web Junk, et al), as Liz recently pointed out. So why…
The European Commission today extended the headline for its inquiry in to Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) proposed acquisition of the DoubleClick ad n…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has made its first public comments on the European Commission’s review of Google’s $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick,…
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) (or at least “advisors close to” it) is prepared that European Commission approval for its proposed $3.1 billion DoubleC…
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has formally submitted its request for permission to buy ad network DoubleClick. Though the $3.1 billion (£1.55 billion…
After months of European criticism of its privacy policies and as it crosses fingers the US Federal Trade Commission will green-light its Do…
Representatives of Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL), Universal Music, SonyBMG and EMI (LON:EMI) will on September 19 and 20 attempt to convince the Europ…
Before Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) has even asked its permission to take over online display ad network DoubleClick, the European Commission has st…
Folks at SBC are pretty kicked about the whole fiber decision thing. Following the extension of monopolistic situation, SBC says it will…
