2 Amendments of Bill NEWTON DUNN related to 2008/2160(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas e-illiteracy will be the new illiteracy of the 21st century; whereas ensuring that all citizens have access to the Internet is therefore equivalent to ensuring that all citizens have access to schooling, and whereas such access should not be punitively denied by governments or private componly be denied in certain special cases and subject to due process, under the control and appraisal of the relevant authorities or mechaniesms; whereas it is important to deal with emerging issues such as network neutrality, interoperability, global reachability of all Internet nodes, and the use of open formats and standards,
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 - point h
Paragraph 1 - point h
h) proceed to the adoption of the directive on criminal measures aimed at the enforcement of intellectual property rights while simultaneously prohibiting, in pursuit of that purpose, the systematic monitoring and surveillance of all users’ activitiedeterring unlawful activities and the dissemination of harmful content by users on the Internet, and ensuring that the penalties are proportionate to the infringements committed; within this context, also respectstrike a balance between the freedom of expression and association of individual users and combat the incentives for cyber- violations of intellectual property rights, including certain excessive access restrictions placed by intellectualrespect for the fundamental rights and freedoms of others, as well as general principles of Community law, such as the principle of propeorty holders themselvesionality;