[pp.int.general] Internet-Filtering and Real-Time-Surveillaince of all internet-traffic
Ricardo Cristof Remmert-Fontes
rcrf at vorratsdatenspeicherung.de
Tue Feb 5 16:01:51 CET 2008
Hi folks!
More about the filtering and real-time-surveillance of _all_
internet-traffic.
I highly agree with Andre: we have to shift the reception of this topic
from "filesharing" to "human rights": this is about free speech and the
real-time-surveillance of all internet traffic.
Short summary from EDRI here in German:
http://www.unwatched.org/node/820
and:
http://www.unwatched.org/node/792
English:
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.1/creative-content-online
and
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.24/creative-content
The CULT-Amendments will be adopted for the 18 February session.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5498632
Usually tabling deadline for plenary is Wednesday before at 6. 13 Feb.
Before that, it is possible to work on details, see below at the end of
this mail.
Regards,
Ricardo Cristof
P.S.: Following is a mix of different mails from the ad-hoc-working
group, we founded at the 24c3.
We will have a follow-up-meeting at 22/23 February in Brussels.
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André Rebentisch wrote:
> p.cohet wrote:
>>
>> What can be done 'undeground' or stealthier at the PE level according
>> to you?
>
> Prepare some amendments for the plenary and convince a group to table
> them or at least ask them what is going on, shift the debate away from
> internet filtering stuff, make it human rights, creative people.
I agree with André that something we can do is to "ask them what is
going on". But that requires that we read up on what is public first. I
paste "another Bono" below, the Graça Moura Report: "European agenda for
culture in a globalising world".
27/02/2008 EP: report scheduled for adoption in committee, 1st or
single reading
10/04/2008 EP: probable part-session scheduled by the DG of the
Presidency, 1st reading
21/05/2008 Council: resolution expected
But I'd also say that it is only after you have shown you know a file
quite well (e.g. the Bono report), your offer to help to draft
amendments will be accepted.
There are a number of ways MEP assistants can pass on, or not pass on,
your offer. It's their job to be a spam filter and message counter.
//Erik
Here's the file (MediaWiki-format):
OEIL overview: [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5532002
European agenda for culture in a globalising world]
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Accessible documents per 20070124 (with IPR sensitive excerpts):
Committee on Regional Development
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/organes/regi/regi_20080122_1500.htm
nothing:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/pa/692/692020/692020en.pdf
nothing:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/am/697/697599/697599en.pdf
page 6:
(e.g. the Digital Libraries Initiative which aims at making Europe's
diverse cultural and
scientific heritage easier to access online) or research (with the
Research Framework Programmes).
There is a strong link between the promotion of culture and creativity
and EU copyright and related
rights legislation. This legislation protects the rights of authors,
producers and artists to ensure
they receive adequate revenue for their works while allowing a wide
dissemination of protected works
or phonograms, thereby promoting citizens' access to Europe's rich and
diverse cultural heritage.
reference: See study on the Economy of Culture in Europe, conducted by
KEA for the European Commission,
2006, at
http://ec.europa.eu/culture/eac/sources_info/studies/studies_en.html.
(all in all, this is all fluffy and nice)
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/com/com_com(2007)0242_/com_com(2007)0242_en.pdf
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Committee on International Trade
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/organes/inta/inta_20080122_0900.htm
H. whereas new media technologies, including open source based internet
portals and
services and their development, require an increasing amount of
content to fill them,
I. whereas these developments pose unprecedented threats that deserve
attention from the E
U and its Member states with regard to the infringement of
intellectual property rights,
piracy, and unauthorised digitalisation,
J. whereas counterfeiting and piracy of cultural products lead to job
losses in the E U,
undermine the competitiveness of cultural industries and the quality
of products,
K whereas ultimate power has been conferred on the Commission to
protect intellectual
property rights of European industries in all international fora as
well as before some
trade partners that have a very poor record in this field,
L. whereas culture is specifically included in the EU's free-trade
agreements (FTA) and
other trade instruments,
2. Calls on the Commission to take the appropriate measures to
strengthen the protection of
intellectual property rights according to the Union’s acquis
communautaire, World Trade
Organisation (WTO) rules and EU bilateral agreements in order to
eradicate
counterfeiting and piracy;
3. Calls on the Commission to use its powers to ensure that all trading
partners enforce the
obligations of the agreements within the framework of WTO and
international trade law,
including the eventual activation of dispute settlement instruments
provided for by
international agreements;
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/pa/692/692549/692549en.pdf
Amendment by Georgios Papastamkos
Amendment 14
Recital Ι
Ι. whereas these developments call for new thinking on how to
manage and regulate
issues that affect the protection of intellectual property
rights, piracy, and
unauthorised digitalisation, and this deserves attention from
the EU and its Member
States; however, measures to combat these phenomena must not
check the
increasing trend, through the Internet, towards new forms of
artistic and
intellectual creation and the exchange of information and
knowledge,
Amendment by Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl
Amendment 19
Recital I
I. whereas these developments pose unprecedented threats
(deletion) with regard to the
infringement of intellectual property rights, piracy, and
unauthorised digitalisation,
and whereas this deserves attention from the EU and its Member
States,
Amendment by Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl
Amendment 22
Recital K
K. whereas ultimate power has been conferred on the Commission to
protect intellectual
property rights of European industries in all international
fora as well as before those
trade partners that do not have adequate legislation in this field,
Amendment by Caroline Lucas
Amendment 27
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to take the appropriate measures to
initiate a thorough
revision of the protection of intellectual property rights, in
order to better balance the
conflicting goals of right-holder protection and free and fair
access to cultural products
and services in the Union’s acquis communautaire, World Trade
Organisation (WTO)
rules and EU bilateral agreements in order to eradicate the root
causes of
counterfeiting and piracy;
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/am/701/701610/701610en.pdf
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Committee on Development
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/organes/deve/deve_20071217_1500.htm
nothing:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/pa/698/698230/698230en.pdf
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Committee on Culture and Education
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/organes/cult/cult_20080121_1500.htm
12. Calls on the Commission to devise means serving to identify sectors
in crisis in European
cultural industries, focusing particular attention on the
publishing market, in which the
trend has been such that high-quality creative writing is now in
danger of being eclipsed
by best-sellers, and on the world of music-making, the quality and
diversity of which are
likewise being threatened by the worldwide spread of digital
technologies by the
concentration processes entailed in collective rights management
and by piracy;
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/pr/683/683736/683736en.pdf
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and even more:
INI/2008/2011 - Measures to support alternative media in Europe in order
to guarantee a pluralistic media environment and cultural diversity
Culture and Education (responsible) Resetarits Karin ALDE
11/09/2006
Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (opinion) no rapporteur yet
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5581672
Resetarits is Austrian and came via the eurosceptic "Liste Martin" in
the European Parliament, now ALDE.
And we have a report
INI/2007/2253 Media concentration and pluralism in the EU
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/FindByProcnum.do?lang=2&procnum=INI/2007/2253
Culture and Education (responsible) Mikko Marianne PSE
11/09/2006
Economic and Monetary Affairs (opinion) Chatzimarkakis Jorgo
ALDE 19/06/2007
Industry, Research and Energy (opinion) Belet Ivo
What can you do now?
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- develop a wishlist of your media policy amendments that should be as
*operational* as possible
(e.g. "asks the Commission to present a strategy for more
interoperability in media environments")
and difficult to get messed up by quick 30 second "blitz amendments".
- alert affected parties
- monitor the process and stay in touch, ensure that tabling deadlines
are not missed
and you let sneak your stuff in.
- as there is no report yet, talk to the rapporteurs in order to get
your stuff in as early as possible.
- adopt your personal initiative report as your pet project
It was a great surprise to me to see parts of the amendments proposals I
wrote "en passent" month ago, following an alert on our IPRED2 mailing
list that the report was hijacked and the request of a consumer org to
do last minute action, tabled by an MEP for the main report of Guy Bono
and parts of them adopted by the CULT Committee. Let's hope the best for
the plenary but I guess it will just sneak through.
This is the way to get on a progressive road and it is all low effort.
The average old industry lobbyist is nuts and inefficient but often he
is the only one who lobbies at all!
//AndrS
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