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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT color=#0000ff>As I explained in another
mail, the human rights route imnsho is unlikely to be productive, and may even
be counter-productive.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Defending human rights, having them as
reference, is never improductive nor counter-productive. The Data Retention
Directive, e.g., proves how necessary is to never forget that author's rights
are not our only issue.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT color=#ff0000><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS">If you are prepared to accept the risk of an
<STRONG>extension</STRONG> of "intellectual property rights" e.g. copyright,
and very tough enforcement measures, yes, there is no risk in advocating human
rights. Again, the DRD was defended with the argument that it
<STRONG>supports</STRONG> human rights (e.g. of the authors, and the potential
victims of terrorism), perhaps at the expense of privacy, but who cares?
Please note these are not my arguments, but still arguments accepted in
politics by a majority. </FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:4121EEB0A62C49EB89531C3294BCC3BC@RBB2008 type="cite">
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>Striving for a reduction of the copyright term is a
VERY large term option, not because it is unimportant, but merely judged
from a feasibility perspective.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>If you have 1 MP out of 350, are you not demanding anything because of
not having enough majority? <B>It's your duty as MP to demand it, because your
voters demand it</B>. Later, when new elections arrive, you can remind voters
that you were unable to achieve the desired goals because of not enough
electoral support -thus, asking for more votes to have more weight at the
parliaments-. Never forget that <B>feasibility, assuming that we follow rule
of law, depends only on the amount of MPs</B>; for the reduction of commercial
rights term & scope, and for the rest of topics you enlisted -and many
more you forgot-; thus, such reduction have to be pursued by us in the short,
middle and long term; short-term unfeasibility (due to lack of MPs) shouldn't
prevent us to pursue our goals, as long as they remain our goals.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Two aspects: 1. If
you choose a certain emphasis, ypou can't do other things. So you better
choose to address problems that you realistically can resolve in the
foreseeable future. Copyright and patent term reductions require cumbersome
international negotiations. The present political mood is to strengthen
rather than weaken copyright etc. The US imposes "TRIPS plus" conditions in
bilateral treaties to many (developing) nations. The deal is easier access to
the world market for (conventional) goods. But even if the political
"weather forecast" would be more favourable, such a process would take
many years. </FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>But various other reforms can indeed me
productive:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Those reforms are as not feasible -at least in Spain (because there are
pure symbiosis between SGAE and the Socialist Workers Party), I don't know how
things work in Netherlands- as reducing copyright term & scope. Are you
going to leave them aside in the short & middle term?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000 size=2>Well, some of the reforms
I propose can even be made in court.</FONT><BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:4121EEB0A62C49EB89531C3294BCC3BC@RBB2008
type="cite"><FONT color=#0000ff>- is the list long
enough?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Not for pirate parties, in the light of our several ideologies and
national platforms.<BR><BR><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000
size=2>Then add something to the list.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000
size=2>reinier</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>