France’s Ministry of Culture and Communication says that the country’s anti-piracy agency, Hadopi, will likely merge with the Higher Audiovisual Council, an institution with the role of regulating electronic media. The plan is to create a more powerful authority capable of regulating both audiovisual and digital communications. France has been working hard to disrupt online […]
The major Hollywood studios, Netflix, and Amazon have agreed in principle to settle their piracy lawsuit with Dragon Box. The terms of the settlement are not public, but it seems likely that the box vendor will have to halt all copyright-infringing activities going forward. The company promised to do so in the past but those […]
Rising privacy-focused search engine Qwant is calling for the Copyright Directive to be passed by the EU Parliament. Founder Eric Léandri says his platform is ready to pay creators for use of their works but is calling for an external database of copyrighted works as a reference point. Last year, however, the company said that […]
