On Thursday, February 3, 2005 at 10:37 +0000, Ian Clarke wrote:
Campaign for Creativity is run by Simon Gentry, a PR professional who works as a hired-gun outfit for corporate lobby groups (previously he successfully lobbied for the extremist "Life Patent" Directive which is causing all sorts of problems). C4C is a front for corporate interests masquerading as a grass-roots organisation.
I'm not sure about patents4innovation, but I suspect it is similar.
They look to be slightly more honest, in that their corporate interests are declared on the "about us" page:
About us This site is the product of collaborative efforts from a wide body of concerned actors in the European technology industry, members of EICTA - including:
Accenture, Adobe, Agilent, Alcatel, Apple, Bang&Olufsen, Blaupunkt, Bull, Canon, Corning, Dell, EADS, Epson, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Grundig, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Infineon, Intel, JVC, Kenwood, Konica-Minolta, Lexmark, LG Electronics, Loewe Opta, Lucent, Marconi, Microsoft, Motorola, NEC, NEC-Mitsubishi, Nokia, Nortel, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Samsung, Sanyo, SAP, Sharp, Siemens, Sony, Symantec, Texas Instruments, Thales, Thomson, Toshiba.