On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:46:22PM +0100, Adam Moran wrote: [forwarded message:]
From: Ross Anderson Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk
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I've written an analysis of the EuroDMCA (the EU draft directive on IP enforcement) which comes before the European parliament on the 11th September. It will have many interesting bad effects:
Great Article.
Can anyone confirm the Sep/11 date? The EP calendar says there is no plenary session on Sep/11: http://www.europarl.eu.int/plenary/cal2003_en.pdf
So is just the working-group (wording) vote? (like the Jun/17 JURI vote)
A html copy of the directve is at: http://ukcdr.org/issues/eucd/eucd.html
Info on the effects of this directive: http://www.eurorights.org/eudmca/WhyTheEUCDIsBad.html
Many anti-EUCD people say that this basically allows copyright holders to make up their own laws with respect to there works, thus ending "fair use".
Ciaran O'Riordan