[pp.int.general] Immediate action required!

[coretx]

Sorry for the extra mail.

Note: He's not talking about PPNL, but about pirate party's in GENERAL.

On Aug 20, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Jurgen wrote:

>
> 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)
>>> ____________________________________________________
>>> Pirate Parties International - General Talk
>>> pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
>>> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
>>
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