On May 26, 2010, Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture published its draft bill to address copyright infringements on file-sharing networks.
On May 26, 2010, Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture published its draft bill to address copyright infringements on file-sharing networks.
Groundwork for the bill was undertaken by an ad hoc committee of civil servants in 2009. The committee was appointed as follow-up to the discussions initiated by the ministry in 2008, with representatives of the film, music and games industries, Internet service providers and the authorities.
The aim of the Finnish discussions in 2008 was to find a new means of promoting electronic commerce in copyrighted creative content and reducing illicit file-sharing over the Internet. Corresponding discussions between rights holders and Internet service providers were also held in France, the UK and Sweden, among others.
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