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RightsWatch The
impetus behind the project specification was provided within the text of the
EU’s E-Commerce Directive which encourages a self-regulatory approach through
voluntary agreements for ‘development of rapid and reliable procedures for removing and disabling
access to illegal information.’
Activities and research taking
place throughout the two year
duration of the project (2000 – 2002) have been funded under the
European Commission's Information Society Technology ("IST") programme. The
RightsWatch team have drafted a
White
Paper which summarises the work of the RightsWatch project and its key
results in a way that we hope is easily accessible.
As such, it is hoped that this document will provide useful guidelines to
stakeholders engaged in discussions on notice and takedown by highlighting the
contentious issues and areas that need to be addressed in order to move forward. The RightsWatch partners would welcome your views on the project's findings. Comments can be submitted via the discussion forum. You will require Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the file on this page. If you do not have this software it can be obtained free from: www.adobe.com
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