[pp.int.general] About PP Russia

[Boris Turovskiy]

Hi Pasi,
currently we are working on more elaborate positions, but what is 
already available is a "declaration of goals" [1] and the Public Domain 
Manifesto which has been translated and is in the process of being 
officially adopted [2].

Here a rough translation of the declaration:

1. Freedom of information distribution and citizens' access to it
Non-commercial information sharing should be free in any form, any 
environment and on any carriers. No persecution of its participants may 
take place. Copyright laws and any other laws must not be used to punish 
participants of non-commercial information sharing, to restrict the 
authors' choice of cooperation partners, or to exercise censorship.

2. A reform of copyright legislation to benefit the actual authors and 
the society, not the middlemen
A copyright system has to respect and reward authors without violating 
the rights of other citizens.
The Russian legislation has to firmly accept international free licenses 
like CC, GNU GPL/GFDL, BSD and others and allow their unlimited use.

3. A reform of the patent system
Patents have to provide incentives and rewards for inventors, not serve 
as an artificial barrier for free competition

4. An orientation of administrative institution towards free and open 
technologies
Citizens shall have the right to interact with government authorities 
via fully open standards, protocols, file formats and using free software.
All results of the government's work including laws, regulations and 
standards, have to be included into the public domain and be fully 
available to the citizens.

5. Inviolability of private life
Government institutions may require only such information from a citizen 
which is neccessary for them for the fulfilment of their duties. This 
requirement has to be substantiated and may be appealed in court.
Gathering of information about citizens may be executed only by order of 
court and only with respect to a citizen for whom a substantiated 
suspicion of criminal behaviour exists.

Note to 2): currently, the use of for example free software in 
businesses is legally questionable, as a GPL-licensed software is from 
the law's point of view pretty close to "pirated software".

As to the positions of PPFI which you have presented, (1), (2) and (5) 
is pretty much covered by the PPRU's positions while your (3) and (4) 
(commercial protection and medical patents) are by themselves pretty 
controversial (for example, the German PP currently doesn't have a clear 
stance on medical patents and on the exact duration of commercial 
protection aspired).

Best regards,
Boris

[1] 
http://pirateparty.ru/wiki/index.php?title=%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%A0%D0%A4
[2] http://publicdomainmanifesto.org

> I'm sorry (actually not, you may carry on) to cut your discussion about
> disagreements and for any things that maybe should even be in-the-party
> discussions. In fact I'm just trying to get "whole picture" of PPRU.
> I'll attach some poor translations of PPFI core things and without
> knowing what PPRU thinks about them, we cant really know what to think.
>
> In Finland we have five stands we wont give up, no matter what.
>
> The core things are: (plz forgive me for poor translations)
>
> 1) Rights or every citizen, specially about their privacy, communication
> secrecy and freedom of speech. *PRIVACY*
>
> 2) Right to non-commercially receive, copy, modify and share  every
> single work there is ever published. *NON-COMMERCIALLY*
>
> 3) Commercial protection to last 5-10 years from the time work is
> published. *COMMERCIAL*
>
> 4) Software- and medical patents must be abolished, other patents must
> be carefully investigated for for are they really worthy. *CAN ANY
> PATENT BE BENEFIT FOR THE PEOPLE*
>
> 5) Mostly not concerned for PPRU but for EU, but in general; All
> decision-making of the government must be as public and checkable as
> possible for the citizens, *TRUST TO GOVERNMENT?*
>
> Could I please get some sort of official replies for these from PPRU?
> Nobody is judging you just by opinions, but we really don't know where
> you stand and for what.
>
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