[Fsfe-ie] Pro-patents sites

[Justin Mason]

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James Heald writes:
> Ian Clarke wrote:
> > I'm not sure about patents4innovation, but I suspect it is similar.
> 
> P4I was set up by EICTA.  Sun and Cisco have already taken their names 
> off the site, as have some national ICT associations.
> 
> The first draft of the site was largely written by Nokia's lead IP lobbyist.

... with the help of some license infringement:
http://kwiki.ffii.org/Eicta041202En .

Jokes about them being pro-patent because they can't comprehend the
terms of copyright-based licenses are welcome ;)

- --j.

> The pro-swpat push in Brussels has been almost entirely led (in 
> descending order of activity) by Nokia, Siemens, Ericsson, Philips and 
> Alcatel, either in their own name, or working though these 'umbrella' 
> front organisations.


> > Ian.
> > 
> > On 3 Feb 2005, at 10:06, Ryan Meade wrote:
> > 
> >> Apologies if you're already aware of these:
> >>
> >> http://www.patents4innovation.org/
> >> http://campaignforcreativity.org/camp4creativity/index.htm
> >>
> >> Pretty funny, if they weren't a bit scary.  The Irish partners of the 
> >> Patents4Innovation campaign are listed as "ICT Ireland", which is an 
> >> IBEC subgroup: http://www.ictireland.ie/
> >>
> >> Ryan
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