[Discussioni] [IPRED2] EU plan could put open sourcers in court

[Andrea Glorioso]

Ciao a tutti.

Il titolo  di questo articolo  di ZDNet e` particolarmente fuorviante,
dato che le misure previste dalla cosiddetta "IPRED2" (la prima IPRED,
o "Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive", non prevedeva,
anche grazie ad un intenso lavoro di lobbying di molte organizzazioni,
le  misure penali che  sono invece  previste in  questa direttiva) non
sono indirizzate in   maniera particolare nei  confronti del  Software
Libero.

Qui  in  Italia non ho  visto  parlare molto  della direttiva, ne` dai
singoli ne` dalle associazioni solitamente attive in questo settore.

In Europa alcune organizzazioni, tra cui  (che io sappia) EDRi e FIPR,
si  stanno organizzando per  contrastare gli  aspetti piu` sbilanciati
della proposta   di  direttiva.  Chi  fosse   interessato, mi contatti
off-list.

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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5815584.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnet

EU plan could put open sourcers in court
By Ingrid Marson, ZDNet (UK)
Published on ZDNet News: August 2, 2005, 11:51 AM PT

The  proposed directive, which was  adopted by the European Commission
last month, would   allow criminal sanctions  against "all intentional
infringements of an IP right on a commercial scale."

Richard Penfold, a  partner at law firm  DLA Piper Rudnick Gray  Cary,
said  last week  that  the proposed directive   could "quite possibly"
allow  the   imprisonment of the   boss of  a  company   that is using
infringing software, although it would depend on whether the defendant
can argue that the infringement was unintentional.

[...]

Ross  Anderson, the chair of  the   Foundation for Information  Policy
Research,   said the  proposed  directive  could   help  SCO  or other
companies in future intellectual  property infringement cases  against
open-source software.

[...]

The European  branch of the Free Software  Foundation was also worried
that SCO could use the directive to its advantage. Joachim Jakobs from
FSF Europe said that not only  could company managers face being tried
in  a criminal court,  but   SCO could also   be  allowed to join  the
criminal investigation. That's because the  directive calls for "joint
investigation teams," where the  holder  of the intellectual  property
rights in question can assist the criminal investigation.

But Paul Stevens,   a partner at  U.K. law  firm Olswang,  said it was
unlikely that software  users would be  affected by the  directive, as
any company that  pursues criminal cases  against  users is likely  to
suffer from the bad publicity.

[...]

Ingrid Marson of ZDNet UK reported from London.

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Ciao,

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