On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:12:03PM -0500, Michael Chaney wrote: > Be diligent. The US likes to use its muscle, which is considerable, to > bully other countries into adopting our screwed up IP legal > infrastructure. Australia just capitulated last year and got some > DMCA-style legislation in place. >
Given that Gloria's such an American toady (as has every Philippine president in like, ever), I think this is not a long way from happening here. Even if FPJ happens to win, I imagine he'll be every bit a lapdog of the Americans as any president who ever came before him. Tuta ng Kano as we like to say. > Watch for it and fight it if you see anything like this happening. > Seriously. It's easier to kill this crap up front than to change it > after it is law. Absolutely right. Perhaps we ought to begin a small advocacy group that watches changes in copyright, patent, and trademark law here in the Philippines, and attempt to raise awareness of these issues for the general public. It could be a good PLUG special interest group, FS-Law perhaps, to ensure that software patents, DMCA-like laws, and laws intended to be the bane of Free Software do not sneak their way into our legal code unnoticed. Even the legal issues surrounding the .PH domain could be examined by this group. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
