-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Fsmk-discuss] In Europe, Pirates Are Writing The Copyright Law Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:24:13 +0000 From: Vignesh Prabhu <[email protected]> Reply-To: Discussions related to Free Software and the Movement <[email protected]> To: Discussions related to Free Software and the Movement <[email protected]> http://torrentfreak.com/in-europe-pirates-are-writing-the-copyright-law-150104/ "On January 1, 2006, I founded the Swedish and first Pirate Party. It’s now on its tenth year, and on its second term in the European Parliament. This term, that European Parliament is revising the copyright monopoly – definitely once, possibly twice. It starts out by evaluating what works and what doesn’t with the current set of laws on the matter. And the rapporteur for that dossier – meaning “the person writing the actual legislative document” – is Julia Reda, representative for the Pirate Party from Germany. Let’s take that again: a Pirate Party representative is writing the European Union’s official evaluation of the copyright monopoly, and listing a set of necessary changes. In 2006, did I imagine that a pirate would be writing the European Parliament’s official evaluation of how well the copyright monopoly has worked – and what needs to be changed – in the European Union, the world’s largest economy? No, I didn’t, to be honest. But neither did I expect that the Pirate Party representatives would manage to get “three strikes” schemes outlawed across all of Europe in 2009, or take a radical reform proposal (allowing file-sharing and more) into the political mainstream in 2012. When you open the floodgates of the unrepresented, things can apparently happen fast." ------------------------ Powered by BigRock.com _______________________________________________ fsmk-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fsmk.in/listinfo.cgi/fsmk-discuss-fsmk.in
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