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[News] Commissioner Mccreevy Ruins Europe with Intellectual Insanity (Monopolies)

  • Subject: [News] Commissioner Mccreevy Ruins Europe with Intellectual Insanity (Monopolies)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:32:26 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Term Extension “will damage Commission’s reputation”, top legal advisers tell
Barroso

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| Today, the leading European centres for intellectual property research have 
| released a joint letter to EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, 
| enclosing an impact assessment detailing the far reaching and negative 
| effects of the proposal to extend the term of copyright in sound recordings. 
| [...] “This Copyright Extension Directive, proposed by Commissioner Mccreevy, 
| is likely to damage seriously the reputation of the Commission..."     
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/06/18/term-extension-will-damage-commissions-reputation-top-legal-advisers-tell-barroso/


Recent:

[ffii] McCreevy wants to legalise Software Patents via a US-EU patent treaty

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| Brussels, 13 May 2008 -- European Commissioner McCreevy is pushing for a
| bilateral patent treaty with the United States. This Tuesday 13 May in
| Brussels, White House and European representatives will try to adopt a
| tight roadmap for the signature of a EU-US patent treaty by the end of
| the year. Parts of the proposed treaty will contain provision on
| software patents, and could legalise them on both sides of the Atlantic.
|
| "TEC talks are the current push for software patents. The US want to
| eliminate the higher standards of the European Patent Convention. The
| bilateral agenda is dictated by multinationals gathered in the
| Transatlantic Economic Business Dialogue (TABD). When you have a look
| who is in the Executive Board of the TABD, you find not a single
| European SME in there", says Benjamin Henrion, a Brussels based patent
| policy specialist.
|
| The Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) which comprises EU and US high
| level representatives put a substantive harmonisation of patent law on
| its agenda. Substantive patent law covers what is patentable or not. The
| attempt to impose the low US standards on Europe via the Substantive
| Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) process utterly failed at the World
| Intellectual Property Organisation. Also progress in the WIPO B+
| subgroup (without development nations) could not be reached.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/282000/
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