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

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> what the h*** have patents to do with film and music industry???
>
> /me amazed ...

Maybe you didn't read carefully.

There is a new "IP enforcement directive" which lumps both patents and
copyright together and in which Fourtou is the rapporteur, just as
McCarthy is the rapporteur for the swpat directive.  In the swpat
directive context, Fourtou has pushed for the most stringent possible
enforcement rules, just as in her own IP enforcement directive.  And
in both cases we have clueless online journalists confusing the rapporteur
with the parliament.


> 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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