Re: EU software patents directive vote

[stap@xxxxxx (Jan Stap)]

Hi,

Just wondered if I could find the Volkskrant article online. Well, for
reading the article "Hou software vrij beschikbaar" online, one has to 
pay, see

http://zoek.volkskrant.nl/artikel?text=patent%20%20software&FDOC=0&SORT=presence&PRD=2y&SEC=%2A&ADOC=0

To be extended to: "keep information freely available"? :-)

Cheers,

Jan Stap

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:34:04PM +0200, Jama Poulsen wrote:
> FYI,
> 
> The European Parliament agenda for next Tuesday:
> 
>   http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?PUBREF=-//EP//TEXT+AGENDA+20030923+SIT+DOC+XML+V0//EN&LEVEL=2&NAV=S&LSTDOC=Y&L=EN
> 
> When the directive proposal "on the patentability of
> computer-implemented inventions" will be put to a vote:
> 
>   http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?L=EN&OBJID=30318&LEVEL=3&MODE=SIP&NAV=X&LSTDOC=N
> 
> Especially interesting is the modification of Article 6, which was
> put in on misstake by Arlene McCarthy and here guiding mob:
> 
>   Article 6 (deleted)
> 
>   Acts permitted under Directive 91/250/EEC on the legal protection of
>   computer programs by copyright, in particular provisions thereof
>   relating to decompilation and interoperability, or the provisions
>   concerning semiconductor topographies or trade marks, shall not be
>   affected through the protection granted by patents for inventions within
>   the scope of this Directive.
>       
>   Justification
> 
>   See justification for the new Article 6a.
>   Amendment 21
> 
>   Article 6 a (new)
> 
>   Article 6a
> 
>   The rights conferred by patents granted for inventions within the scope
>   of this Directive shall be without prejudice to acts permitted by way of
>   exception under Directive 91/250/EEC on the legal protection of computer
>   programs by copyright, in particular the acts specified and described in
>   the closed list set out in Articles 5(2) and (3) and 6 of Directive
>   91/250/EEC.
> 
> Also, today there was an reasonably good article in the Volkskrant
> from two D66 members, and it stated that the current directive should
> be rejected since its scope is too broad. Unfortunately I can't find
> on online version of this article.
> 
> The PvdA is still divided on their position as far as I can tell.
> I've emailed with Michiel van Hulten and called his office, but
> they don't want to take any standpoint yet (because the PSE is
> very divided internally on this issue). The PSE members vote
> seems to be the largest uncertainty factor.
> 
> Lets hope 2 million SME's will be able to convince some of those
> European Socialists:
> 
>   http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/ceapme0309/index.en.html
> 
> Jama Poulsen
> 
> 
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>   Try to turn the world around one more time.
>   Yeah, we must try to shake it down do our best to break the ground
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> 
>    - Tuesday's Dead, Cat Stevens
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