Call for evidence: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/gowers_review_intellectual_property/gowersreview_index.cfm
Really, we need businesses to reply to this where it affects them - I think responses from individuals will be mostly filed in the round tray. AFFS will need to respond - if you're interested in helping out with the response, an initial step would be for people to read through the call and send their notes to affs-project, please. Other orgs. like FFII-UK have seen these as well, but if you're sending along notes feel free to include points you think might be relevant to other people - we can always pass them along. I think phase two of our (AFFS') response will need to be an evidence gathering phase, which will need people to help research - they're specifically on the look out for this kind of information. Trawling through economic papers (e.g., the report on EU database rights) would help here. Also, of interest was the notes about the scope of the enquiry - Crown copyright etc. is _not_ part of the enquiry, but everything else is fair game. They're also taking note of the APIG stuff (which we've done) and the Patent Office consultation on inventive step (which we need to do). Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
