[pp.int.general] [Fwd: Re: [Ipred2] Zingaretti asks the Council for "a time frame"]

[Ricardo Cristof Remmert-Fontes]

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Betreff: Re: [Ipred2] Zingaretti asks the Council for "a time frame"
Datum: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:50:25 +0100

> > It seems Zingaretti is getting impatient with "systematic violation of
> > copyright":
> >
> >    WRITTEN QUESTION P-0541/08
> >    by Nicola Zingaretti (PSE) to the Council
> >
> >    Subject: Criminal measures to enforce intellectual property rights
> >
> >    On 25 April 2007 Parliament adopted the report on the amended
> >    proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the
> >    Council on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of
> >    intellectual property rights (COM(2006)0168 - C6-0233/2005 -
> >    2005/0127(COD)).
> >
> >    On 23 October 2007 the Court of Justice published its ruling in Case
> >    C-440/05, in which it found that the Community legislator may impose
> >    effective, proportional and dissuasive criminal penalties on Member
> >    States in order to guarantee the full effectiveness of the rules it
> >    lays down.
> >
> >    Given the need for urgent action by the EU in response to the
> >    increasingly systematic violation of copyright by some Internet
> >    users, can the Council provide a time frame for discussion of the
>
> I like the European system, not even a newspaper article to mention that
> this directive is targetted at sending p2p guys in jail.
>
> This question might be to put in parallel with what he sais earlier.

Like this quote:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/archives/business/2007427/108171.htm

"It is about punishing mafia-style criminals, not about jailing kids
who download music from the Internet," said Italian Socialist Nicole
Zingaretti, who led the bill through the EU assembly.


Viele Grüße,
Ricardo Cristof

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