Re: [Patents] EU Commission: Competitive and efficient European enterprises

[critto@wp.pl]

Subject:        	Re: [Patents] EU Commission: Competitive and efficient European
enterprises
From:           	Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>
To:             	Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>
Copies to:      	patents@aful.org
Organization:   	Xsec s.r.l.
Date sent:      	12 Apr 2003 18:09:42 +0200

> On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:12, Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> > Recently, the german and austrian parliaments have ratified EuroDMCA,
> > and some politicians, particularly from the conservative camp, said that
> > this was overdue, because it had been decided by EU & WIPO long ago.
> 
> Sadly Italy has recently ratified EUCD too.

What about this EUCD? Are there any movements to abolish this directive (it is  possible; one directive may replace another; even Maastricht Treaty has been  replaced by the Nice Treaty), or to amend it? And, a question to Hartmut: what  about Germany and Austria? Have they _ratified_ EUCD? Or only are going to?  I can't find anything anywhere. Even on Slashdot. Ah, here is some info, but it  isn't clear when it has been updated:

here I've found something different:
http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status

> > Even those who opposed the text (such as
> > austrian socialists) did not really seem to know what was at stake and
> > appeared as if they were trying to sneak in some means of circumvention.
> > It appears we are in an era where legislators are willingly blindfolded
> > by obscuring language.
> 
> I feel like legislators have simply stopped to do their work and just pass
> whatever active organizations ask them to vote if there is no opposition.
> They simply stopped to be an active part of the process, and react only
> when strongly questioned :-(
 Yes.  I hope that things will be different in the case of swpats. After all, there was  little or no opposition towards EuroDMCA. As Th. Jefferson said, "the price of  liberty is eternal vigilance". I hope that MEPs will be wise and reject the sw pat  proposals. 

And, one more thing -- let's stop losing time on speaking with Greg Aharonian.  As for me, it's not a point to convince him. Better concentrate on convincing the  EUParl. 

Yours,
Krzysztof (Christopher) "Critto" Sobolewski
critto@wp.pl http://www.libertaryzm.prv.pl