<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi all<br><br></div>I've had a
semi-productive Saturday afternoon writing up the US governments
intellectual property ratings of various countries on Wikipedia here:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_301_Report#Effects_of_Special_301_Reports" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_301_Report#Effects_of_Special_301_Reports</a><br><br></div>Any
national Pirate Party not aware of this report from the US should be -
it's one of the main trade weapons where by the US attempts to
'harmonise' intellectual property laws internationally.<br><br></div>Of
course it would turn out that the complete statistics from 1989 were
already published in a grid format, but never mind, Wikipedia is better
:)<br><a href="http://www.iipa.com/pdf/2014SPEC301HISTORICALCHART.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.iipa.com/pdf/2014SPEC301HISTORICALCHART.pdf</a><br><br></div>In
fact Wikipedia is so awesome I've been waiting for the chance to
formally launch the Wiki-project 'Pirate Politics' which can be found
here:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Pirate_Politics" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Pirate_Politics</a><br><br></div>A Wiki-project creates a structure for like-minded editors to create and improve related areas of Wikipedia.<br></div><br>I
would appreciate feedback into the project from various national
parties of interest, or simply distribute the project via your national
parties. It is not currently a multi-language Wiki-project, it's only
English, it would take a non-English person to lead activities in their
respective language and inter-link the project :)</div>