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Antipiracy law heads for EU vote
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The European Parliament is set to vote next week on a controversial law that would extend companies' powers to crack down on pirates and song-swappers.
The proposed law, the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, is primarily aimed at strengthening law-enforcement capabilities against organized piracy and counterfeiting in the European Union. But civil rights groups say its measures would criminalize previously innocuous activities, such as sidewalk entertainment and book readers for the blind.
The directive had been scheduled for a Feb. 9 vote in a plenary session of the European Parliament, but was delayed in order to hammer out a compromise. The parliament hopes to approve the directive before June, when new member states will join the EU, according to industry observers.
According to European Digital Rights (EDRI), a civil liberties group, a compromise put forward by the European Commission could allow member states more flexibility in deciding the scope of the law. For example, they could limit the applicability of criminal sanctions to what are currently civil offences.
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