[pp.int.general] Immediate action required!

[Jurgen]

Why not post a text on the PP-NL website concerning the article? He's making 
publicity for yours so there's an opportunity to seize.
People will go out and try to know what the Pirates' point of view is. ;)

Pressuring in making him remove his text ... erm ... well ...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "coretx" <coretx at piratenpartij.nl>
To: "Pirate Parties International -- General Talk" 
<pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] Immediate action required!


> Update, Liebrand is out of office.
> I have left my phone number @ his secretary.  ( +31 ( 0 ) 30 234 66 00  is 
> where you can reach Liebrand. )
>
> I suggest others try to do exactly the same thing.
>
> Also, tell him politely that he is a idiot. And that it is better for  his 
> repution, if he removes the article.
> The professor does not even know the difference between copyright 
> infringement & Piracy !
> Don't talk about stuff, you don't know anything about. A prof. should 
> know !
> Also, PP enlists 35 country's not 33.
> I gues he did not even talk to a pirate!
>
> The worst thing of all is the fact that he makes people think that we  are 
> against  improving access to knowledge, information and data.
>
>
> On Aug 20, 2009, at 3:59 PM, coretx wrote:
>
>>> https://portaal.neth-er.eu/contenttypes/Artikelen/Artikel2452.aspx?Source=http%3A%2F%2Fportaal.neth-er.eu%2FDutch%2FPages%2Fdefault.aspx
>>
>> A high profile pirate needs to do a quick respons.
>>
>> I'll paste the content below;
>>
>>
>> The strange thing with pirates is that they quite often are proud to  be 
>> a pirate. Chances are pretty low that you meet a person saying:  “Hi I’m 
>> a criminal, just robbed another person”. Pirates, on the  other hand, 
>> give interviews about the benefits of hijacking ships in  the Gulf of 
>> Aden, or the benefits of free use of copyrighted  material on the 
>> Internet. More explicit: yes the sharing of  copyrighted material without 
>> paying royalties is called Internet  piracy, and these Internet Pirates 
>> are proud to be a pirate. They  even participated in the 2009 European 
>> Parliament (EP) elections in  Sweden and got more than 7% of all Swedish 
>> votes, making it thereby  the third largest political party. Pirate 
>> Parties now exist in 33  countries.
>>
>> The question that arises now is: should SURF become a member of the 
>> Pirate Party? After all, the Dutch Higher Education sector has  declared 
>> 2009 to be ‘Open Access Year’. And doesn’t that mean Free  Access to all 
>> digital information? WRONG.
>>
>> There are a lot of misunderstandings about Open Access and  copyright. It 
>> is essential to realize that the author, the  intellectual creator, is 
>> the holder of the copyright. He or she has  several options to deal with 
>> that copyright. From complete transfer  of copyright to a publisher, to 
>> licenses that do not require the  exclusive transfer of all rights. See 
>> copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl.  Copyright therefore plays an important role in 
>> the creation,  distribution, and re-use of material in the context of 
>> higher  education and scientific/scholarly research.
>>
>> In declaring 2009 the year of Open Access, we try to improve access  to 
>> knowledge, information and data. The central idea is that the  results of 
>> publicly financed research should also be available to  the public. That 
>> doesn’t imply that everything is available at no  costs. Even if the 
>> ‘Open Access’ model were to be applied globally,  somebody has to pay the 
>> bill for increased access to digital  information. So, SURF will NOT 
>> become a member of a Pirate Party.
>>
>> by Wim Liebrand, director SURFfoundation (SURF)
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