<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hello all, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Below is the weekly parliamentary and policy brief for the week ending 30/11/2012. The brief is still in beta mode, so as ever, if there is anything that you would/wouldn't like to see in here please let me know!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Regards</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Weekly Email:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Official Meetings<u></u></span></b></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:18pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1.<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">     </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ORG took part in a Ministry of Justice advisory panel, which met for the first time on 29/11/2012. The European Commission’s revised Data Protection Regulation was scrutinised. Along with ORG, Which and Privacy International were also in attendance. Further details of what was covered are can be found on <a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2012/data-protection-debate-at-moj" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Jim's blog</a>.</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:18pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2.<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">     </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ORG held Communications Data Bill training sessions in Cardiff, Bristol, Sheffield and Newcastle this week.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Last Saturday we hosted a Stop the Snoopers' Charter event in London with Index on Censorship, hosting speakers including Cory Doctorow and other leading privacy experts.</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:18pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3.<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">   </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Jim Killock gave a keynote talk at the RSA during an event run by University of Leeds on users' perspectives of copyright. The key points were that policymakers needed to listen to a wider range of stakeholders including internet users, and also that the exceptions recommended in the Hargreaves report should be implemented. More on this is available on the <a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/speeches/leeds-copyright-event,-rsa:-what-users-say-and-do-about-intellectual-property" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ORG website</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Leveson Report</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Leveson Report was released this week. Amongst the plethora of findings, there were some potentially interesting implications for internet regulation and data protection. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">On internet regulation, Leveson did not call for regulation of small blogs or Internet platforms.</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">On the topic of data protection, Leveson calls for a narrower scope of the journalistic use of personal data, and the increased enforcement powers and penalties through the ICO.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Links: <a href="http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Leveson_Report" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ORG Wiki - Leveson Report</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">          <a href="http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/hc1213/hc07/0780/0780.asp" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">The Leveson Report</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Committees<u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Draft Communications Data Bill Joint Committee held a private meeting on 28/11/2012.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Joint Committee has finished writing its report into the Communications Data Bill. It is expected to be released within the next two weeks. Ahead of its release, reports suggest the Liberal Democrats are distancing themselves from the proposed powers. This is consistent with previous comments from <a href="http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Julian_Huppert_MP" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Julian Huppert MP</a>, who suggested that the bill in its present form would not be allowed to go through.  According to the BBC, the committee’s findings will argue that</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:54pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">          </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The home office has failed to justify the case for a new law,</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:54pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">          </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Bill infringes civil liberties and invades privacy,</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:54pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">          </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The measures entailed in the bill would damage British businesses, in particular ISP’s and CSP’s,</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:54pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">          </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The huge pool of data would be a security threat.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/29/nick-clegg-distances-lib-dems-snooper-charter" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">The Guardian</a>, which has claimed that the report will be released on Tuesday, has also covered this story.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Links: <a href="http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Communications_Data_Bill" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ORG Wiki</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">The third evidence session into the support for the creative industries will take place on 04/12/2012. The Culture, Media and Sport Committee will assess the impact that illegal downloading has on artists, as well as exploring the support and finance available to individual artists. The witnesses will include Geoff Taylor of the BPI, Jo Dipple and Andy Heath of UK Music, and Alison Wenham of the Association of Independent Music among others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Links: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/121129-creative-economy-ev3/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Parliament UK - CMS Committee</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">          <a href="http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/CMS_Select_Committee#ORG_Response" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ORG Wiki - CMS Committee</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Legislation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Government Bills<u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Defamation Bill</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">There is an interesting discussion of the Defamation Bill by Andrew Scott and Alastair Mullis of LSE. They discuss the proposed ‘discursive remedy proposal’ which would negate the need to bring costly claims by examining the honesty and reasonability of publishers that the claims made were indeed in the public interest. They go on to suggest that parliament should endorse this idea. The blog can be found <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/2012/11/27/a-new-style-public-interest-defence-in-libel-law/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">here</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Links - <a href="http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Defamation_Bill" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ORG Wiki - Defamation Bill</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">A list of amendments to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill has been released. The bill will be subject to a line-by-line examination in the Lords Grand Committee on 03/12/2012. Lord Howarth of Newport proposed a minor amendment to Clause 68, which is concerned with the licensing of copyright and performer’s rights, as well as the licensing for orphan works. The full list of amendments can be found <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2012-2013/0045/amend/ml045-i.htm" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">here</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Links: <a href="http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Enterprise_and_Regulatory_Reform_Bill" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ORG Wiki - Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">          <a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/enterpriseandregulatoryreform.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Parliament UK - bill tracker</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">International developments<u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14px">Data Protection Directive</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Government published its Impact Assessment of the European Commissions plans for data protection. The EC’s Impact Assessment suggested that the new regime would bring administrative savings of up to €2.3 billion a year. The government disagreed with this assessment, suggesting that the costs of the regime would far outweigh the benefits, citing a net cost of between £100 – 360 million a year. More details are contained in the Ministerial statement released by Helen Green on 22/11/2012, which can be found <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-vote-office/November_2012/22-11-12/7-Justice-DataProtection.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">here</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Links – <a href="http://amberhawk.typepad.com/files/blog-nov2012-eu-data-protection-reg-impact-assessment.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">UK Government Impact Assessment</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">            <a href="http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ORG Wiki - Data Protection Directive</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
UN ITU</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ahead of the UN ITU conference on the 3^rd of December, Google have launched the #freeandopen campaign. Google have condemned the conference, calling it a ‘closed door meeting’ which ‘could increase censorship and threaten innovation.’ The ITU meeting will discuss the regulation of international internet infrastructure, and critics have suggested that this conference may open space for governments and the ITU to control access to the internet. More on Google’s position and their campaign can be found <a href="http://sociable.co/business/the-unitu-respond-to-googles-freeandopen-campaign-as-the-eu-votes-to-condemn-changes-to-internet-governance/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">here</a>. This is in line with the EU’s position on the conference, with the European Parliament voting in favour of blocking the proposals. In response, the ITU’s Paul Conneally stated “We must keep the Internet open for business to sustain growth in the vast and inter-dependent global digital economy.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="line-height:14px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Links - </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/ITU" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ORG Wiki - ITU</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="line-height:14px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">           <a href="http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/features/2012/grabbing-at-governance" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ORGzine ITU article</a></span><span style="line-height:14px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
WIPO</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="line-height:14px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights’ (SCCR) 25^th session concluded on 23/11/12. The Committee has been discussing international disability print exceptions, and the feasibility of making copyrighted materials more freely available to visually impaired persons. The 26^th session is scheduled for July 2013, however an Extraordinary meeting of the WIPO General Assembly (EGA) will convene on December 17 and 18. Conclusions on the session can be found <a href="http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_25/sccr_25_ref_conclusions.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">here</a>.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Links - </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/WIPO" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ORG Wiki - WIPO</a></span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">          </span><a href="http://keionline.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:14px">Knowledge Ecology International</a></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">CETA</span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:0cm">
<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Trade talks between Canada and the EU are still on-going. Newly leaked documents have indicated that the EU wants to close talks that it knows are imbalanced, and there are still a number of unresolved issues, however copyright reform is no longer one of them. Reports have suggested that since the EU dropped ACTA it has come to realise that Canada has no real demands for copyright and IP reforms.  More information on the leaked documents and what they could mean for CETA can be found <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/michael-geist/canada-eu-trade_b_2191461.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">here</a>.</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Links – <a href="http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/CETA" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ORG Wiki - CETA</a></span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:0cm"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;text-align:justify"><b>Other Developments</b></span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-left:0cm"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;text-align:justify">Richard O’Dwyer, creator of TVShack, finally struck a deal to avoid his impending extradition to the US. The ‘deferred prosecution’ agreement means that he will have to travel to the US and pay a small sum of compensation, but will not face criminal charges. Background to the case, and further reaction, can be found on the ORG Wiki.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Links - <a href="http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Dwyer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ORG Wiki - Richard O'Dwyer</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify">           <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/28/richard-odwyer-us-deal-extradition" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:14px">Guardian Article</a></p>
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</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Details of ORG in the news can be found on the <a href="http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/ORG_Press_Coverage" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ORG Press Coverage</a> page.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">This week ORG has been quoted in Tech Radar, Metro, BBC, and Marketing Week regarding Facebook’s attempts to change its user voting and its attempts to further exploit user data. The <a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/919200-facebook-in-new-battle-with-privacy-groups-over-data-sharing-plan" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Metro</a> article is a good starting point.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">ORG has also been featured in <a href="http://recombu.com/digital/news/internet-piracy-prosecutions_M11099.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Recombu</a>, relating to our intervention in the appeal by Golden Eye’s attempts to clamp down on copyright infringement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">ORG was quoted in <a href="http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/tvshack-richard-odwyer-extradition-us-100454" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">TechWeekEurope’s</a> coverage of Richard O’Dwyer’s successful attempt to fight extradition to the US, and <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/poor-bittorrent-copyright-troll-appeals-for-cash-to-fight-opponents-121123/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Torrent Freak</a> covered ORG’s fund-raising appeal to mount a legal challenge against the Golden Eye copyright lawsuits.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2228077/exclusive-tech-firms-and-rights-groups-set-for-first-advisory-meeting-on-ec-data-protection-proposals" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">V3</a> covered ORGs attendance at the Ministry of Justice advisory panel on the proposed EC Data protection regulations.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ORG Contact Details<u></u></span></b></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Executive Director - Jim Killock <a href="mailto:jim@openrightsgroup.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">jim@openrightsgroup.org</a></span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Communications Data Bill campaign - Javier Ruiz <a href="mailto:Javier@openrightsgroup.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Javier@openrightsgroup.org</a></span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Copyright & Government Consultations - Peter Bradwell <a href="mailto:peter@openrightsgroup.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">peter@openrightsgroup.org</a></span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Parliamentary monitoring - Ricky Shah - <a href="mailto:parliamentary.monitoring@openrightsgroup.org">parliamentary.monitoring@openrightsgroup.org</a></span></p>