Free software an unprecedented threat to copyright?
H. whereas new media technologies, including open source based internet portals and services and their development, require an increasing amount of content to fill them, I. whereas these developments pose unprecedented threats that deserve attention from the EU and its Member states with regard to the infringement of intellectual property rights, piracy, and unauthorised digitalisation, J. whereas counterfeiting and piracy of cultural products lead to job losses in the EU, undermine the competitiveness of cultural industries and the quality of products,
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/organes/inta/inta_20080122_...
Amendments to:
European agenda for culture in a globalising world http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5532002
Forecasts 26/02/2008 EP: report scheduled for adoption in committee, 1st or single reading 10/04/2008 EP: probable part-session scheduled by the DG of the Presidency, 1st reading
//Erik