FC: New sites protest march of European copyright directive

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

See also, launched yesterday (in German):
> EU member states must amend their copyright laws this year. All in all, we
> are facing the equivalent to the US Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
>
> Today we started an initiative on the net to rescue the right to make private
> copies  (european version of fair use): www.privatkopie.net
>
> During the first 3 hours we had 6000 visitors and 70.000 hits. 3895 people
> sent an email to the German chancellor. Since 4pm we get timeouts. The
> chancellor's mailbox seems to be full or regards our interest as a DOS attack.

-Declan

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:30:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Alexandre Dulaunoy <alexandre.dulaunoy () ael be>
X-X-Sender: ael () perycles unix be EU org
To: declan () well com
Subject: EUCD action : Status for European Countries
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204301629270.24061-100000 () perycles unix be EU org>

Dear All,

As you known, the EUCD (2001/29/CE) is a real threat for the four
freedoms of Free Software and for Freedom in general.

So we (at ael)  think the best way is to have a coherent action regarding
and a coherent source of information (with cross-references) around the
application of the EUCD in the different european countries.

So we have setup a small wiki page with status :

http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status

So EVERYBODY can edit it and add his specific information about his
respective country.

Thanks a lot.

adulau

--
Alexandre Dulaunoy              http://www.foo.be/
AD993-RIPE                      http://www.ael.be/
"People who fight may lose.  People who do not fight have already lost."
  - Bertolt Brecht




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