The Spanish Pirate Party is interested in signing it, but we are yet reviewing it... I hope we finnish today, but just 4 days for this may have not been enough for us, sorry.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/17/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Christof Leng</b> <<a href="mailto:christof.leng@piratenpartei.de">christof.leng@piratenpartei.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hi,<br>
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a network of groups from Germany and Switzerland have prepared a
statement about intellectual property rights for the upcoming G8
meeting. I would be happy if other pirate parties from around the globe
would join us as signatories. All the details below.<br>
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cheers,<br>
Christof<br>
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<pre>Dear friends<br><br>attached you'll find the final version of the declaration concerning G8 <br>and IPR. Thanks to all of you who provided comments, critics and help in <br>the last weeks – this was very helpful and I think we now have a much
<br>better declaration than we had in the beginning of this process. The <br>debate on content is closed now but please, if you find any mistakes <br>concerning the language used please send me a mail.<br><br>Now search for first signatories has to be started – next Wednesday (May
<br>23rd) the meeting of the G8 ministers on IPR is starting and so we <br>should send out press-releases on Tuesday, May 22nd to ensure that <br>newspapers writing on the start of that meeting take in the declaration <br>
(for more information on this please see below).<br><br>So time is short and I want to ask you first to SIGN ON AS FIRST <br>SIGNATORY (organizations as well as private persons are invited) and <br>second to SHARE THE STATEMENT with people you know, send it to relevant
<br>lists and ASK RELEVANT PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS TO SIGN ON AS FIRST <br>SIGNATORIES.<br><br>People wishing to be first signatories can either SEND A MAIL TO ME (if <br>you are representing a organization please send your logo as well as
<br>your web address - <a href="mailto:buhr@wissensallmende.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">buhr@wissensallmende.de</a> ) OR WRITE YOUR SIGNATORY <br>DIRECT INTO THE wiki (<a href="http://declarationg8andipr.pbwiki.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://declarationg8andipr.pbwiki.com/</a> , password: <br>g82007). This list is intended to give all of us an overview on who <br>already signed on and I will include signatories I receive per mail <br>there as well.<br>
<br>For having a faster flow of information I included everyone involved in <br>the process till now into a mailinglist. It is not moderated so please <br>feel free to post comments and ideas.<br><br>SOME IDEAS AND QUESTIONS ON FURTHER PROCEDURE:
<br><br>***************<br>Press releases<br>***************<br><br>We plan to announce this declaration on May 22nd GMT+1 with permission <br>to print the statement on the 23rd.<br><br>Questions:<br>Should we send out joint press releases nation by nation? We will make a
<br>draft release over the weekend in German. If anyone is interested in <br>joining us or getting our draft to use it for your own press release <br>please contact me. I will send out a link to a wiki page with the draft
<br>on Sunday evening.<br><br>Who else plans to release something at that date or possibly later? <br>Please send a short note to the list. If for this an English translation <br>of the German press release would be helpful than please give me a hint
<br>– I'll try my best.<br><br>If you have personal contact to a journalist it would be very helpful if <br>you could forward the release directly to him.<br><br>************<br>Translations<br>************<br>A German translation will be ready by Monday morning. As there are
<br>possibly discussions on that to be made it would be very helpful if all <br>German friends wishing to be included in this discussion send me a short <br>message. I than will send a link to a wiki with the text to you on
<br>Monday and hope that we have it ready at the evening. If there is a <br>chance please take note on this in your schedule.<br><br>Does anyone planning to translate to other languages?<br><br>********************************
<br>Official Website for signing on<br>*******************************<br><br>Signing on should be opened on May 23rd around noon to be ready if <br>newspapers and other media are picking up this topic.<br><br>We will need one place where we collect all signatories. It would be
<br>possible to do this on our web page (<a href="http://www.wissensallmende.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.wissensallmende.de</a>) if you like <br>that idea. I hope to be able to ensure that we have a good tool for
<br>this. I will get more information on this on Friday. If you have a tool <br>for collecting signatures online please say hello. Also if you are very <br>familiar with typo3 – which we use on our page – our webmaster will me
<br>very pleased by a helping hand.<br><br><br>****************************************************************<br>More detailed criticism on G8 policy to be included on websites<br>****************************************************************
<br><br>I think we need more detailed critics besides this statement to include <br>it on the web page where later people and organizations will be able to <br>sign on.<br><br>We already have some more detailed critics on our chancellors plans –
<br>but I fear I'll not be able to write it down over the weekend – I'll try <br>to write a statement on the German chancellors plans at the beginning of <br>the week. If anyone would be able to translate it from German to English
<br>it would be very great.<br><br>Also it would be great if some people could provide a written critic on <br>their governments position or on politics of other G8 members as well. <br>Please send a short message to this list if you already have some or if
<br>you'd like to write something, perhaps other people would like to join you.<br><br>So - this for the moment - I'm looking forward to your replies, ideas <br>and critics and hoorays.<br><br>All best,<br><br>Petra
<br><br>-- <br>Petra Buhr<br>Koordinatorin<br>Netzwerk Freies Wissen<br><a href="http://www.wissensallmende.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.wissensallmende.de</a>
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<pre cols="72">-- <br>"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
<br>- Woody Guthrie (in the late 1930s on a songbook distributed to listeners who wanted the words to his recordings)</pre>
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