[Fwd: changing the Council proposal on monday]

[Andraz Tori]

Sporočilo povezano s sw patenti iz FFII...
je kratko, tako da priporočam branje.

bye
andraž

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Subject: changing the Council proposal on monday
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 16:08:33 +0200

Hello,

The Council presidency has prepared a "compromise document" for
unlimited patentability which is extreme in every way, especially in
the way in which it tries to conceal its real contents, see

        http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/cons0401/#tabl

Some of the responsible politicians have meanwhile become aware of this.

This gives us an opportunity to get the proposal postponed on May
18th.  All that is needed seems to be that one of the ministers
should, when asked by the Irish presidency, say that "yes, this
proposal needs discussion" and then poke some fun at the rhetorics
used in it (e.g. in Art 4A and 5(2)). 

With some effort it should be possible for 1 informed minister to make
the whole cardhouse fall apart.

There is even a good chance for such a minister to appear
"constructive" at the meeting.  E.g. by removing Art 5(2) and adopting
the german proposal for Art 2b, it might be possible to create a basis
for a further reading by the parliament -- not a good directive, but
at least something that does not ruin the directive project
altoghether.

I am now trying to put together a kind of memorandum for officials who
would like to take this path, and I am putting interested officials or
activists from various national ministeries into BCC or into a mail
alias cons040518.  Please tell me of any email addresses I can put
there.

A beginning has been made at

        http://kwiki.ffii.org/ConsHowto040518En

Hope to get this moving quickly now,