… and sitting in a café inside Bromma Airport. Borås and Jönköping are two cities that is close to Gothenburg and I’m going there to hold some anti-malware seminars.
While checking my RSS feeds this morningI find two things sticking out of the masses. First is the Pirate Party’s vice chairman Christian Engström which replies to a request for an IPRED1 alternative. It’s the swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that posed the question.
The answer can be summarized in three points, and these are the official ideas of the Pirate Party:
1) Keep copyright legislation more or less as it looks right now
2) Keep the I.P. owners rights to decide who can make money using hers/his creations.
3) Legalize copying (incl. file-sharing) for non-commercial purposes
Foreseeing a rush of “but how will artists earn their living” comments he then continues detailing the record and movie industries profit margins and overall gains the previous years, highlighting the fact that the works that are shared most frequently is also the ones that make the most money over the traditional distribution channels.
The next interesting post I found was from Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing which highlights IPRED1-alike laws being questioned as unconstitutional in the US. As the American cases and laws are precedents of the ideas now being pushed in the EU, these cases are going to be groundbreaking if “the good guys” win them. I’d suggest keeping a close eye on this.
Cheers,
