p2p news / p2pnet: A judge who ruled Dutch web site Mp3search.nl illegally posted links to copyrighted files is tied to Brein, the Big Four Organized Music unit responsible for the site ending up in court, states The Register.

But Dutch lawyer Christiaan A Alberdingk Thijm, who defended Mp3search.nl against BREIN two years ago, said the impartiality of the court wasn’t his biggest concern, says the story, going on to quote him as saying:

"What bothers me more is that this case wasn’t defended at all. The ruling is inherently contradictory. While the court decided not to rule on the issue of copyright infringement by Mp3search.nl, it applied a statement of the WIPO copyright treaty to conclude that the site acted unlawful."

One of the judges, "is a member of Comité Executif de l’Association Littéraire et Artistique (an international agreement aimed at protecting literary and artistic copyright), whose Dutch subsidiary includes the managing director the Dutch Association of Phonogram and Videogram Producers (NVPI), who is behind anti-piracy organisation BREIN," says The Rehgister.

Another is a member of a Dutch fund which also supports professional musicians.

Last Friday, an appeals court in the Netherlands ruled that facilitating MP3 downloads through a search engine, even when those files are not hosted by the search engine itself, is in violation of Dutch law," says the story, adding:

"Every Dutch search engine that links to illegal MP3s is affected by the ruling."

Digg this story.

Also See:
The Register – Dutch MP3 ruling hit by conflict of interest claims, June 21, 2006
affected by the ruling – Zoekmp3.nl goes down, June 19, 2006

---

p2pnet newsfeeds for your site.
rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss
Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 at 1:10 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

HOME

Viewed 2697 times