More on Treaties and Domestic Law

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>]

(Forwarded from Free Software Law Discussion list,
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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:51:23 +0100
From: Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>


My view too.

I would add that the futher removed from the voters the
decision making process is, the more big lobbies can
influence it, most notably large corporations.

   For example, the European Union Commission just issued a
new directive on software patenting.  All in the direction
wanted by large corporations, against SMEs, technicians,
Free software, shareware and the unanimous warning of
economists.

   We got a copy of an earlier draft of the directive, in
Word format.  According to the hidden info in the file, the
author was M. Francisco Mingorance, chief lobbyist for BSA
(AKA Microsoft) in Brussels.

  You said "democracy"   ...   what democracy ?

Bernard


PS  actually the proper word is "plutocracy"


On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:08:27AM -0800, Gabe Wachob wrote:
> 
> You are not mischaracterizing this at all. In '96-97 while
> I was in law school, Pam Samuelson raised all sorts of red
> flags about WIPO and the way in which it was going to be
> used to push an IP regime into the United States that
> copyright holders would have a harder time pushing
> directly. And thats exactly where we are today.

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