Re: [Patents] JURI amendments for 22/4 now up (in Italian)

[Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>]

On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 16:20, Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> I suspect that in reality these politicians want to support McCarthy, but
> they are creating a fictitious extreme position in order to allow McCarthy
> to appear as centrist and her paper as a "compromise".

It appears to me too.
Their amendments are not substantial but the comments are very extremist
(like EPO and USA do this, so we must follow or the like).

> It is quite sad to see that Diana Wallis of the british libdems, which
> have a clear anti-swpat statement in its programmatic document
> makeitpolicy.org.uk, has not come forward in support of any amendment
> proposals and must therefore be assumed to be going with the leading
> pro-swpat people from the "liberal" fraction in JURI.

We should make clear to the public which politician is not respecting
their electoral commitment. 

> Recently in Germany the "Liberal" party (fdp.de) criticised the EuroDMCA
> for not going far enough and asked for a SuperDMCA,

Here in italy, it seem BSA and audio/video majors have criticized the
directive as being to soft too ....

TOO SOFT .. a directive that make you prefer to beat an artist rather
then copying out his song, as you risk less (3 months for physical
damage to a person, 3 years to have copied it's song, or made
circumventions of protected material ecc ...).


I think it has become a common tactic to over-extremize positions to
make things seem more neutral and so have them passed as compromise
position.

Simo.

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