[Fsfe-ie] The Adelphi Charter

[Malcolm Tyrrell]

My lunchtime news browsing encountered the "Adelphi Charter":

http://www.ipcharter.org/

It's discussed in the following articles:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/comment/story/0,9828,1591467,00.html
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5032375
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4348970.stm

The following is an excerpt from the Gaurdian article which might
be a useful point to apply when arguing against "the US has
such-and-such a IP law and is very successful, therefore the EU
should have the same law".

"The USA's database industry has flourished without a database right.
Indeed on most measures, it has outperformed the European database
industry. The same is true of the so-called "broadcaster's right," of
marginally shorter copyright terms and so on."

Malcolm.


		
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