WG: RE: [IRPCoalition] Delfi v Estonia in European Court of Human Rights

Jan. 9, 2014

      Dear all,

thanks for your feedbacks so far! As I have seen some approval from you (but no objection so far), attached please find a copy of this letter which was signed by an impressive number of other groups and orgs. already (as some of you asked for).

Therefore let me suggest *to confirm* to Karmen that EURALO (ICANN's European At-Large Organization) is signing this letter too.

Thanks and regards,
Wolf

Karmen Turk wrote Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:40:
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Hi,
Gladly!
Regards,
Karmen
-----Original Message-----
From: Wolf Ludwig [mailto:wolf.ludwig@comunica-ch.net] 
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 5:10 PM
To: Karmen Turk
Subject: RE: [IRPCoalition] Delfi v Estonia in European Court of Human Rights
Hi Karmen,
I started the consultation among the EURALO Board member and it looks good. Can you provide me a copy of the letter to forward it to our folks? Thanks and
regards,
Wolf
Karmen Turk wrote Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:53:
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Hi Wolf,
Thank you again for your support again. I paste here FYI the list of 
supporters as it stands today. Any time EURALO decides to support, we 
would apprecate that as well :)
Regards,
Karmen
Algemene Vereniging van Beroepsjournalisten in België American Society 
of News Editors ARTICLE 19 Association of American Publishers, Inc 
Association of European Journalists Bloomberg bvba Les Journaux 
Francophones Belges Chaos Computer Club Conde Nast International Ltd.
Daily Beast Company
Digital First Media, LLC
Digital Media Law Project, Harvard University Digital Rights Ireland
Dow Jones
EDRI
Electronic Frontier Finland
Estonian Newspapers Assotation (Eesti Ajalehtede Liit) European 
Information Society Institute (EISi) (via Karmen) Federatie van 
periodieke pers, the Ppress Forbes Human Rights Center, Ghent 
University Hungarian Civil Liberties Union I'Minds ICRI Leuven Index on 
Censorship (Kirsty Hughes - via Peter) International Press Institute 
Internet Democracy Project (Anja Kovacs - via Karmen) La Quadrature du 
Net Lithuanian Online Media Association Mass Media Defence Center Media 
Foundation (Leipzig) (via Dirk) Media Law Resource Center MLDI National 
Press Photographers Association National Public Radio Nederlandse 
Vereniging van Journalistiek Net Users' Rights Protection Association 
New York Times News Corps Newspaper Association of America North Jersey 
Media Group, Inc NUV (Nederlands Uitgeversverbond) Online News 
Association Open Media Coalition - Italy Open Rights Group Panoptykon 
PEN International PEN-Vlaanderen (via Dirk) Persvrijheidsfonds Radio 
Television Digital News Association Raycom Media Reporters Committee 
for Freedom of the Press Telegraaf Media Groep Guardian News & Media 
Limited Thomson Reuters Vereniging voor Media- en Communicatierecht 
Vlaamse Nieuwsmedia (via Dirk) Vlaamse Vereniging van Journalisten 
Vrijschrift World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers 
European Publishers Council Global Voices Advocacy
Some additional natural persons:
Wolf Ludwig (Founding and board member of EURALO - ICANN's European 
At-Large organisation; founding member and co-organiser of the European 
Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG)) Dr. Ben Wagner, 
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication, 
University of Pennsylvania Angela Daly (Postdoc researcher at the 
European University Institute (Italy) and Swinburne Institute for 
Social Research (Australia)) Douwe Korff - London Met Professor Nicolo 
Zingales (Assistant Professor of Law, Tilburg University) Giancarlo F 
Frosio, SJD (Intermediary Liability Fellow, Center for Internet and 
Society, Stanford Law School)
-----Original Message-----
From: Wolf Ludwig [mailto:wolf.ludwig@comunica-ch.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 7:11 PM
To: Karmen Turk
Subject: Re: [IRPCoalition] Delfi v Estonia in European Court of Human 
Rights
Hi Karmen,
thanks for this troubling info. Until Wednesday I won't have sufficient time to consult with my colleagues or Board members from EURALO (ICANN's European At-Large organization). But if you wish, you can add my name in my personal capacity.
Thanks and regards,
Wolf Ludwig
Karmen Turk wrote Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:43:
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Hi all,
Happy New Year and welcome to new Co-Chair and Steering Committee members!
As many of you know, a chamber of the European Court of Human Rights recently held, in Delfi v. Estonia, that a website is strictly liable for defamatory content in any user-generated content posted by a third party.  This position will be familiar to you, because it is essentially the rule we endured in the United States prior to the passage of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.  In the EU, the E-Commerce Directive moderates that result somewhat, permitting a site to avoid liability if it deletes potentially defamatory content upon notice.  But remarkably, the ECHR affirmed the views of the Estonian national courts that this rule applied to ISPs and not to websites who have solicited comments from readers -- in the Delfi case, the publication had actually taken the comment down on request, but was still found liable.  Needless to say, this is a decision that could inhibit free expression online, and will likely lead to media avoiding online comments in many cou!
ntries.  (A detailed assessment of it can be found 
here<http://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/37287/en/european
-court-strikes-serious-blow-to-free-speech-online>)
Peter Noorlander, (the chief executive of the Media Legal Defence Initiative in London), Gabrielle Guillemin (from Article 19), Dirk Voorhoof (recognized human rights scientist), are heading up an effort to encourage the Grand Chamber of the ECHR to review and reverse the Delfi decision.  They have drafted the attached letter for that purpose, and are encouraging media companies and associations to lend their support and name to the effort.  This is especially important since there were no judges dissenting from the judgment.
There is no cost associated with this request.  If you would like to be included, there is two possibilities:
-          Just let me know by Wednesday evening and I shall add you (or your organization) to the list of supporters;
-          Or you can send the letter yourself to ECHR. The letter is available under Creative Commons license CC CA :)
PS: I do apologize for quite a short deadline :)
Kind Regards,
Karmen
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[mailto:irp-bounces@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org] On Behalf 
Of Shawna Finnegan
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 12:17 AM
To: IRP@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org
Subject: Re: [IRPCoalition] IRP in 2014
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Hi all,
Happy new year, and welcome to the new co-Chair and Steering committee members!
Marianne, thanks for this email. Wolfgang's post is a fantastic orientation for the upcoming year.
I completely agree that there is no need to reinvent the wheel. The fact that 80% of principles in recent declarations on IG are the same, according to Wolfgang, suggests that we are very much on the right track. Continuing down that track, I think prioritizing one charter or declaration over others in developing a global set of principles might undermine the collaborative process.
While the IRP Charter is a robust starting point for a global multi-stakeholder principles on IG, it would be great to map the 80% overlap in recent principles (if Wolfgang has not already done so), and work with our networks and communities to articulate shared language based on that framework.
Looking forward to others' thoughts,
Shawna
On 14-01-02 05:25 AM, Marianne Franklin wrote:
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Apologies for a double-mailing but should have sent the message 
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under a new message heading. On 02/01/2014 12:21, Marianne Franklin
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Dear all
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Happy 2014. Thank you Olivier for the positive vibes this early in
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the year too.
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As preparations for the Brazil Meeting in April gather steam, a 
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agenda item and output is now clear; to produce a "global"
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set of Internet Governance principles.
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Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, who has been undertaking a survey of all
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existing statements around IG Principles including those that 
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human rights and principles, has provided one comprehensive review 
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the year past and the year ahead in this respect (
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http://www.circleid.com/posts/20131231_internet_governance_outlook_
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14_good_news_bad_news_no_news/
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At the end of this analysis, Wolfgang makes the following comment
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about the leading role the UDHR played historically in setting the
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frame for subsequent international human rights law: that it "would
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be good to have a similar document for the Internet, supported not
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only by the governments of the 193 UN member states but also by all
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the non-governmental stakeholders from the private sector as Google
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and Facebook, the technical community as ICANN and the IETF and 
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society as APC and Human Rights Watch."
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Point taken but for the fact that the IRP Charter already exists in
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this capacity. Its 21 clauses are explicitly - and elegantly
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- embedded in the UDHR and these subsequent treaties. It was the
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product of collaborative work, within the IGF setting to be sure, 
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individuals and organizations all mentioned in this comment.
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Government reps and IGO reps have been active as well in the 
Charter
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work. Endorsements by a range of actors are currently being 
gathered
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as the 2nd Edition of the Charter Booklet is ready to go public. We
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also have several translations in process so here there is a
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grassroots support level for the work.
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But, Brazil is a so-called high level meeting and its outcomes will
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be symbolic and perhaps groundbreaking from an inter-governmental
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point of view (perhaps not but that remains to be seen). With more
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and more support for a human-rights based approach to IG in the 
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of the Snowden revelations, it appears that we could be facing the
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embedding of a disconnect between this shift in mood, one that
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underscores the IRP Charter project after-the-fact, and the fact 
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these calls since Snowden are already encapsulated by the IRP 
Charter
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in its entirety.
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Given this recognition that human rights online do matter
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(underscored too by initiatives such as the 13 Principles by PI, 
EFF,
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Access et al) do need protecting, what remains to be seen is 
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all those concerned with making Brazil a success and based on the
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good parts of the IGF working model, the IRP Charter can be taken 
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board in a more explicit capacity. By this I mean that it is the
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document that is adopted and recognized in the fullest sense of the
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term ("legally non-binding high level principles"). This is because
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the IRP Charter remains the one document that already complies with
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these calls; from within the IGF community and further abroad in 
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UN, and technical community where high profile figures such as Tim
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Berners-Lee are calling for a global Bill of Digital Rights.
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It would be a shame, and a mistake to my mind, for us to not to 
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use of the same sort of collaborative and creative energy within 
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list alone, and links to wider networks to promote the Charter for
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this role whilst supporting the Brazil Meeting aim to generate a
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broad sort of global consensus. We do not need to re-reinvent the
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What do people think? best MF
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On 01/01/2014 18:39, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
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Thanks for these excellent news!
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I am thrilled to see such talent leading the IRP. May it go from
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strength to strength! Best wishes to you all for 2014.
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Olivier
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On 24/12/2013 17:54, IRPCoalition wrote:
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> Dear all
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> The election/endorsement process for the IRP Coalition's Steering
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> suggestions for the year to come. The new SC met last week so 
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