Often when writing a response to a Government inquiry or review, such as the Online Copyright Infringement Consultation, the resources necessary to convincingly argue against website blocking are not available in English. Many of the courts that handle important cases involving copyright infringement and website blocking are in nations such as the the Netherlands, and the decisions are not published in English.

Fortunately, the Netherlands has reasonable copyright legislation when it comes to court rulings, and we are able to arrange for a formal, certified translation of ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2014:88 — better known publicly as the Pirate Bay vs BREIN appeal case. In that case, the Court of Appeal found that blocking the Pirate Bay was both disproportionate and ineffective.

This is a very important document to add to the pile of convincing evidence that website blocking is not effective, but we need an authoritative English translation in order to properly cite this in our reports. The price of this is higher than ordinary translations as a legal translation has a much higher requirement for accuracy than other texts.

The Pirate Party endeavours to have this ruling legally translated into English, and will make publicly available the resulting document into the public domain (under the Creative Commons Zero licence in order to ensure that there is no licensing ambiguity).

The funds will be used for the purposes of having ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2014:88 translated into English.

Any excess funds will be used for our other activities, such as freedom of information requests.

We will provide a donation receipt to each donor so that you may claim a tax deduction as per the ATO rule for donations to a political party.

We do not anticipate there being any challenges beyond the time it will take to get the translation done.