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Da slashdot.
Posted by michael on 8:03 21 February 2004
from the or-forever-hold-your-peace dept.
JPMH writes "The Register is reporting on this alert from FFII about a new EU
Directive on IP enforcement due to go to the Parliament legal affairs
sub-committee on Monday, and full Plenary in two weeks time. The detailed
text of the measure was only published on Tuesday. FFII says that without
better defined safeguards the Directive will lead to a far more agressive,
lawyer-driven legal environment for creative businesses. Having seen how
similar legislation is used in the United States, FFII fears that it will
provide the perfect means for agressive litigators holding dubious
intellectual property rights to "pull a SCO" and use the powers of the
Directive to seriously harass and damage small open-source projects and
innovative businesses. FFII has a list of MEPs to contact here." The law has
been described as a DMCA on steroids. We've reported on this before, but it
bears repeating...
Contattiamo anche noi qualcuno?
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