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Tänker ni arbeta i EU-parlamentet för att förändra upphovsrätten? Hur?

I dagsläget finns det inga lagförslag angående förändringar i den materiella upphovsrätten.…
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Czechs call for unity on patent legislation.
The Czech government is pushing for agreement on a crucial element of a harmonised EU regime for patents at a meeting of industry ministers in three weeks’ time.
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European Commission pushes for software patents via a trusted court.
Brussels, 12 May 2009 — The European Commission is pushing for software patents via a centralised trusted patent court that would be created with the United Patent Litigation System (UPLS), an international treaty that would remove national courts. This court system would be shielded against any review by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Thus patent judges would have the last word on software patents.
At the next Competitiveness meeting of May 28-29, the Council of Ministers will request a legal opinion to the ECJ about potential conflicts of the UPLS with the EU treaties. The current draft mentions that the ultimate power to interpret patent law will rest with hand-picked patent judges.
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Certain computer programs are patentable according to the UK IPO.
The Patents Act says that something cannot be patented if it consists only of a program for a computer….

The UK IPO now states that Software that allows programmers to program a mobile phone system remotely from a computer can be patented because it is more than just a software program. The ruling overturns an initial decision that the invention is unpatentable because it consists of nothing more than a computer program…
The deputy director of the IPO, hearing officer Andrew Bartlett, upheld the appeal and allowed the patent to be registered because the invention made a ‘technical contribution’ when compared with previous inventions in the field, or ‘prior art’. He judged the patent application in the light of two recent landmark court rulings on software patentability. The Court of Appeal ruling in a case involving Aerotel and Macrossan set out a four-step test to judge whether something fell outside the scope of patentability.

Bartlett also applied the rule laid out in a subsequent Court of Appeal ruling concerning mobile phone software company Symbian (see previous article). In that ruling Lord Neuberger overturned the IPO’s refusal of a patent because the technology was found to have made a technical contribution.

In the Symbian case Lord Neuberger found that the invention was not just a better computer program but turned the machine it ran on into ‘a better and faster computer’ and did therefore make a technical contribution…
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European Commission On ACTA: TRIPS Is Floor Not Ceiling
“all IP rights are equal.”
The EU Commission is “committed to improve the international legal framework for IP protection” and sees “ACTA as one way to reach that goal,” Devigne said. There was no intention to duplicate TRIPS. Rather, “we want to go beyond it,” he said, adding, “TRIPS is the floor, not the ceiling.”

Devigne pointed to some difficulties the Commission has had in the negotiations. “First of all, we do not agree with our partners who want to exclude certain rights,” he said. The Commission’s standpoint is that “all IP rights are equal.”
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”Stronger enforcement of Intellectual Property”
Statssekreterare Magnus Graner med ansvar för grundlagar, straffrätt, upphovsrätt, rättsväsendet samt rättsliga och inrikes frågor i EU ska prata om immaterialrätt hos The American Chamber of Commerce in Sweden första juni:

On Monday June 1 our keynote speaker will be State Secretary Magnus G. Graner with the topic ” Politics for business development” Ministry of Justice, Stockholm, Sweden. Focus of the speach will be stronger enforcement of Intellectual Property Law and better regulation
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Från Erik Josefsson’s blogg, Läsvärt inkl. kommentarerna!

And the winner is?

European Council: moving to open source desktops will not result in savings.
The Council, in answers to written questions by the Italian Member of the European Parliament Marco Cappato, on 19 April referred to estimates made in 2005 by a working group from these three institutes, that moving to open source would cost them 76.4 million euro.
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From: Silver,Michael [Michael.Silver@gartner.com]
Sent: lundi 14 février 2005 13:55
To: BIANCHESSI Pietro
Cc: Drakos,Nikos; MARIOTTI Jean-Marc (EP); TURPISZ Vincent (EP); LORA-TONET
Pierre (EP); DiMaio,Andrea; Heyneman,Christine
Subject: RE: references for site visit of OSS on workstations

Dear Mr. Bianchessi,
Thank you for your inquiry on desktop Linux and open source office products.

The organizations I mentioned in my presentation are in their infancy, if that, in their open source
desktop deployments. I have not spoken to any sizable deployments of Linux on the desktop and only
one or two StarOffice deployments. Here is the status of the ones you mentioned.
-City of Munich – in the planning phase
-City of Bergen (N) – this organization is not doing Linux desktop. I mentioned these people as an
example of the Linux hype. There was an erroneous press report and since then the CIO has been
trying to correct it, saying that they are doing servers, not Linux desktops.
…
I recently spoke with a large bank that had been seriously considering Linux for a large portion of their users but found that staying with Windows would be less expensive.
…
Regards,
Mike
Michael Silver
Vice President and Research Director
Gartner Hardware and Operating Systems

från Pietro Bianchessi
head of Office Automation and IT support Division
SUTI – DIT (Parlement Européen)

Dear Mr. Silver,
recently I attended a Gartner presentation in Brussels by Nikos Drakon on OSS…
He was kind enough to send me your presentation titled ”Client OS and Office: is Open Source in Your future?”. I find this presentation brilliant, and very useful.

Några avsnitt ur Gartner rapporten som EU har byggt sin IT strategi ifrån.(Engelsk text fr. sid 22)
Three Faces of Linux Hype
Myths of Linux on the Desktop
Linux Desktop Break-Even — There Is No ROI in Sight
Popular Open-Source Myths
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Och vissa svenska EU representanter menar att lobbyister inte har någon betydelse för deras beslut?

Hämtat från bl.a.
http://boycottnovell.com
https://press.ffii.org
http://www.ip-watch.org
http://www.lawdit.co.uk
http://www.opensecrets.org