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----- Forwarded message from Andreas Dietl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Andreas Dietl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Members <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:37:38 +0200 Subject: [EDRi-members] DRM Hearing an outrage Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: <edri-members.mailman.edri.org> X-Spam-Level: Sorry for crossposting this on the edri-members and edri-ip lists, but this concerns as well edri as an organisation as possibly those people on the edri-ip list who are not EDRi members. I went to the Commission Contact Committee Consultation on DRM yesterday, and the way it went was scandalous: They put the most interesting an most important topic - "Developments in case law as well as relevant economic, social or cultural or technological developments" - on the agenda as the very last point, and then they simply dropped this issue, because they had not enforced their own speaking time limitations before that. this led to the majority of civil society / user / consumer advocates present, who had all enlisted for this one topic, not speaking at all. All the same the day was filled with lengthy statements, mainly by industry lobbyists, who gave 15-minute-long Powerpoint presentations on the advantages of their companies' DRM solutions, as well as with collecting societies' lawyers praising their countries approach to renumeration and levies as being the most balanced, democratic, artist-friendly and unbureaucratic. There were only about five people representing people - as opposed to companies, states and state agencies - in the room, and only two of us - Cornelia Kutterer of BEUC and I - got to speak. Both Cornelia and I and a couple of others had put their names on the list for the "case law / economic / social / cultural / technological" slot, but none of us got to speak on this issue. I will prepare a draft press release along the lines of "DRM: Commission not interested in Civil Society's position", and would suggest to go much more public on the DRM issue within the next months, to organise street rallys when hearings take place, to urge people to get listed when hearings and workshop will take place (the next such event already being mid-November, if I am not mistaken). Please tell me what you think. BTW: Today is another Day of Contact Committee Hearings, but today it will be industry, collecting societies, member states' representatives and Commission staff only, without any civil society advocates allowed. it was already quite hard for us to get into yesterday's meeting. Andreas Programme of the Consultation: www.edri.org/files/internal/EC_DRM_041012.pdf (�350 kB) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
