There have been no substantive comments on the draft IFSO response to the Commission copyright consultation. As this needs list input, the response is incomplete and cannot be sent. This is an important consultation that will have its effects over the next years as the Commission makes proposals to various directives. The alternative could be for IFSO to sign up to the EDRi response (call for endorsement below), although the scope is wider http://www.edri.org/campaigns/copyright. Should anyone else wish to complete and submit the IFSO response (deadline 31.10.2004), I will keep the wiki page in place until Monday.
Teresa
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European Digital Rights <www.edri.org>, the Foundation for Information Policy Research <www.fipr.org>, and Vereniging Open-source Nederland <www.vosn.nl> have developed a joint response <www.edri.org/campaigns/copyright/review> to the EU Commission consultation on the review of the EU 'acquis communautaire' in the field of copyright and related rights.
If your organisation wishes to endorse this response, please write an e-mail indicating the organisation's name, your first and second name and position within the organisation, along with your e-mail address for verification, to brussels@edri.org.
This Consultation ends on October 31, so please make sure to send your endorsements at the very latest on that day at noon!
Full text of the response at www.edri.org/campaigns/copyright More info on the European Commission's consultation at europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/04/955&language=EN&g uiLanguage=en
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