Re: [Patents] Fourtou heeds labels' complaints on piracy law

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

Sorry,
what the h*** have patents to do with film and music industry???

/me amazed ...

On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 11:50, Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> The online journalist of the following article seems to confuse
> JURI and even "the EU" with the opinion of the rapporteur on the
> new IP enforcement directive, Janelly Fourtou, who has criticized the CEC
> proposal for not catering strongly enough to the interests of her
> companies like Vivendi, of which her husband is the president.
> 
> Note that Fourtou is also pushing for program claims, which means that she
> wants to subject those who publish their own software to the same (already
> disproportionate) sanctions which she is asking to impose on copyright
> violatiors.  The directive proposal lumps them all together under "IP".
> 
> http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-1003578.html
> 
> EU heeds labels' complaints on piracy law
> 
> By Matthew Broersma
> 
> Special to CNET News.com
> 
> May 16, 2003, 12:43 PM PT
> 
> A new European Union proposal for harmonizing intellectual property
> law enforcement across member states has come under criticism from
> the first parliamentary committee to review it.
> 
> The committee has suggested that the proposal may need to be modified
> to better reflect the interests of the music and film industries.
> 
> ...
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