[pp.int.general] URGENT! Term Extension of Related Rights in Sound Recordings in EU

[Kenneth Peiruza]

Patrick,

    You are right. Our -minister of culture- (Ángeles Gonzalez-Sinde,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ángeles_González-Sinde#Controversy ) is the
daughter of the founder president of our local MPAA and has two film firms.

    Moreover, our president owes loads of favors to SGAE (Spanish RIAA)
because they campaigned in his favor in the latest elections....

    Expect the worst.

    They have just proposed a law to be able to close any website
containing or just linking or even linking to a web linkting to
protected stuff (Ley de Economía Sostenible), with or without commercial
benefit!!! All this, of course, done by an -experts' comitee- and
without even a judge.... figure who will be present in that comitee:
BSA, RIAA, MPAA...

    There is an ongoing campaign to denounce Google for containing links
to websites with copyrighted materials (see -La lista de Sinde-, the
parody of Schindler's list name, it's a list where websites self
denounce themselves, see more here: http://lalistadesinde.net/ and
http://red-SOStenible.net/  joking with Net and SOS). We plan to
massively denounce all major search engines and to flood our government
with denounces, so they will be unable to process them.

    Of course, you will be able to present a protest at a court (after
getting your site closed), in particular, the one responsible for
corruption, terrorism, organized crime and crimes against mankind,
figure out.

    However, not all are bad news: The first response to such a proposal
was the "Manifiesto en defensa de Internet" (Internet defense's
manifesto) made by some representative figures of the blogsphere, some
sensible artists and copyleft organizations.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=manifiesto+en+defensa+de+internet-


100.000 people joined the facebook group in 2 days, now it has 233.000
members. At the same  time, more than 1M references appeared on the net,
with more than 300.000 mirrors!!!!

    This is why nowadays our government is trying to push that forward
through European institutions.

    In recent years SGAE has lost reputation at lightspeed, and nowadays
it is the most hated institution of Spain, in front of the former and
permanent winner, the tax administration! more than 90% of Spanish
population is against SGAE, as shown in recent polls (not made by our
party but by major media groups). Anti-sgae group has 200.000 members in
FB... They are charging us a flat tax for every GB of storage, bars,
pubs and even hairdressers are forced to pay them!!! Figure out what can
our government propose to the EU...

    So, we need your help to stop this at an European level.

    I can put you in touch with somebody really involved in Red
Sostenible, the Manifesto, la lista de Sinde and the Free Culture Forum,
an artist and activist who founded ExGae (an organization to stop SGAE).
However, she doesn't like politicians, so it's better a link for
activists. Mail me if you have any organizations working in such areas
in your country who would like to organize the resistance in an
European/Intl. level.


Regards,

Kenneth
Partido Pirata (.es)

En/na Patrick Mächler aka Valio ha escrit:
> According to my sources the Spanish presidency intends to rush the the
> proposed term extension for related rights in sound recordings into law.
>
> The proposal has been pending with the Council of Ministers, but thus
> far there was a blocking minority of states.
> The music industry is lobbying hard to persuade these states to vote
> in favour of the term extension.
>
> It seems as if they have already convinced Finland and also countries
> like Poland and Luxembourg may soon be ready to give in.
> If they do, there will no longer be a blocking minority, which means
> that the proposal is likely to be adopted soon.
>
> If any of you has contacts at the policy level of your country, it is
> now time to contact them to inform them about the absurdity of this
> proposal.
> Also, you can contact the relevant IP body of your country (e.g. to be
> found through: http://www.wipo.int/directory/en/urls.jsp ) to tell
> them why the proposal for term extension is a bad idea.
>
> The more the policymakers understand about the negative effects of a
> term extension (for the public domain, but also for projects of
> mass-digitization, etc.), the more chance there is that " in case of
> doubt " they will vote against this proposal.
>
> For further information about the term extension, see:
> http://www.soundcopyright.eu/
>
> -pat
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