[vertaling] Re: [Fwd: [ffii] Lehne, McCreevy, demonstrators with canoes]

Wiebe van der Worp wiebe at vrijschrift.org
Tue Jul 5 17:04:42 CEST 2005


Samen met korte BE-NL-intro als het per omgaande mogelijk is, anders 
onvertaald de deur uit.

jo de baer wrote:

> What with Belgium? Is this press release already sent out?
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 05 July 2005 16:34, Wiebe van der Worp wrote:
> 
>>Sorry voor x-post. Vertalen we dit of gaat hij zo de deur uit?
>>
>>-------- Original Message --------
>>Subject: [ffii] Lehne, McCreevy, demonstrators with canoes
>>Date: 05 Jul 2005 15:42:03 +0200
>>From: PILCH Hartmut <phm at a2e.de>
>>To: news at ffii.org
>>
>>PRESS RELEASE FFII -- [ Europe / economy / law ]
>>
>>===========================================================================
>>===== Patent lobby MEPs calling for rejection of the directive
>>===========================================================================
>>=====
>>
>>Brussels, 5 July 2005 - At a press conference this morning at 9:00,
>>the coordinator of the European People's Party group in the Legal
>>Affairs Committee explained that he is putting together a majority of
>>MEPs who will vote for a rejection of the Council's "Common Position"
>>right at the beginning of tomorrow's vote, even before any amendments
>>are voted on.  Lehne also explained that there is no longer a majority
>>in the Council for the "Common Position".
>>
>>The announcement comes at a time where similar calls have been
>>launched by the large companies with big patent departments and big
>>lobbying budgets who have, during the last months, been the main
>>supporters in Lehne's campaign in favor of the "Common Position".
>>
>>Other patent lobby MEPs, such as the Liberal group's legal affairs
>>spokesman Toine Manders from the Netherlands, have also started to
>>call for rejection of the Directive.
>>
>>Manders explains his motives as follows: "A chaos is threatening
>>... in Strasbourg. Because of the large number of amendments, the
>>directive could shoot in all kinds of directions like a firecracker
>>and we want to prevent this."
>>
>>Lehne called for withdrawal of the directive already in February,
>>giving as a reason that the Parliament was unlikely to agree to a
>>favorable (pro-patent) directive at this stage.
>>
>>The move by Manders and Lehne is coming at a time where a majority of
>>367 votes for 21 cross-party amendments is in sight.  These amendments
>>have garnered support from large groups of MEPs in the camp of Lehne
>>and Manders, alongside with nearly total support among all other
>>parties.
>>
>>The Parliament now still has the chance to vote for a coherent
>>counter-position to the Council and Commission.  CEA-PME (including
>>FFII) has called on MEPs to vote for the 21 cross-party amendments, so
>>as to form a coherent counter-position, and to reject only if these
>>amendments fail to receive the needed support by 367 votes.  If the
>>Parliament succedes in forming a coherent counter-position, the
>>Council or the Commission are still free to withdraw the directive.
>>Commissioner McCreevy has today once more demonstrated that he is more
>>than willing to do this.
>>
>>======================================================================
>>100 Demonstrators, canoe race, Buzek-Rocard-Duff placards
>>======================================================================
>>
>>It is 7:00am this Tuesday July 5 when the first bus unload their
>>travellers in front of the European Parliament of Strasbourg. They
>>came from whole Europe, coordinated by FFII.  Some travelled all night
>>from Poland to be there in time in front of the entry where MEPs come
>>by between 8:00am till 10:00am with 10h to be seen with their yellow
>>t-shirts marked "no software patents" and "power to the parliament".
>>
>>The large banners are deployed with haste right just before the
>>arrival of the first members of Parliament
>>(http://gallery.ffii.org/Strasbourg050705)
>>
>>Because it is the day before of the great day: today the debate takes
>>place, and tomorrow will be the vote.
>>
>>The same day at 8:00, the FFII invited members of Parliament with a
>>breakfast of work on the question of what still could be done before
>>the vote.
>>
>>The pro-patent campaigners of "Campaign for Creativity" chose to be
>>present on water, the Parliament being surrounded of visible channels
>>since the buildings; they chartered a small yacht which carried a
>>large yellow and blue banner (as usual, copycatting the FFII
>>symbols). The FFII side reacted by bringing a half-dozen kayaks on to
>>the water with banners calling for a "vote for Buzek-Rocard-Duff"
>>between two blows of paddle.
>>
>>On the footbridge which hangs over the channel and connects the two
>>wings of the building, MEPs laugh. Somebody exclaims: "this seems to
>>prove that creativity is rather on their side"!
>>
>>======================================================================
>>False Press Agency Reports about the Demonstration
>>======================================================================
>>
>>Meanwhile the press agency AP has been reporting about protesters who
>>
>>*
>>http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8B569SO0.htm?campaign_id=apn_
>>home_down
>>
>>"stopped cars of MEPs" and brandished slogans saying "US patents go
>>out".  We wonder who these protesters were.  As we saw it, the
>>atmosphere between the MEPs and us was friendly, the slogans were
>>markedly peaceful.  AP also reports that the proposed law is not about
>>software as such but only "CAT scanners", "car brake systems" etc, not
>>about office software and business methods.  The opposite is of course
>>true.  Intel has meanwhile correctly noted in a paper distributed to
>>MEPs that "computer-implemented inventions" do *not* include anything
>>beyond pure software, whereas "computer-aided inventions" include
>>"thousands of devices that were out of the scope of the directive".
>>For this reason, Intel *opposes* the proposal of Buzek-Rocard-Duff to
>>rename "implemented" to "aided".
>>
>>We may suggest that both assertions of this press agecies about the
>>demonstration are about equally credible.  This type of false
>>reporting by press agencies has accompanied the directive project at
>>all its decisive junctures during the last few years.
>>
>>======================================================================
>>Background information and further news
>>======================================================================
>>
>>* Transcriptions of today's speeches
>>   http://wiki.ffii.org/ParlTranscript050704En
>>
>>* FFII Voting List
>>   http://wiki.ffii.org/PlenVotingList0507En
>>   A more nicely commented version is being worked on.
>>
>>* EUpolitix.com: Commissioner McCreevy accuses European SMEs of
>>   "anti-globalisation, anti-Americanism, anti-big business protests ...",
>>   repeats threats to withdraw the directive if it fails to impose the
>>   current practise of the European Patent Office.
>>
>>http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200507/5d049d10-690a-4977-b116-4295c1a4293
>>7.htm
>>
>>* Current practise of the European Patent Office
>>   http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/
>>   http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/tech/
>>
>>* Trilateral Project of 2000
>>   http://swpat.ffii.org/players/useujp/
>>
>>* Lehne law office partner admits: directive intended to impose
>>   US-style software patents
>>   http://wiki.ffii.org/Stoat050704En
>>
>>* SAP user association against software patents
>>   (meanwhile a SAP developper Prof. Bernd Runge said on the radio that
>>patents
>>    are helping criminal elements to prey on SAP and SAP needs
>>    protection from patents rather than by patents)
>>   http:Sapinfo050705En
>>
>>* 2005-07-02 Toine Manders fears anti-patent vote and seeks rejection
>>   http://wiki.ffii.org/Manders050702En
>>
>>* 2005-02-03 Lehne fears anti-patent sentiment and seeks withdrawal
>>
>>http://www.epp-ed.org/Press/showpr.asp?PRControlDocTypeID=1&PRControlID=329
>>5&PRContentID=6225LG=en
>>
>>* 2005-07-01 2 large german associations turn from pro to against
>>software patents
>>   http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61326]
>>
>>* 2005-06-28 German Entrepreneurs accuse Lehne, Wuermeling et al of
>>   fraudulent statements, of conflicts of interst, ask CDU to show
>>   clearly where they stand, complain of being ignored by pro-patent
>>   MEPs, who instead make claims about phantom SMEs wanting software
>>   patents.  In his speech today Lehne denied the charges.
>>   http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61161
>>   http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/60988
>>   http://www.patentfrei.de/
>>   http://wiki.ffii.org/KlausHeinerLehneEn
>>
>>* Stay tuned to our news ticker
>>   http://wiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn
>>
>>======================================================================
>>Contact information
>>======================================================================
>>
>>Hartmut Pilch and Holger Blasum (Munich Office)
>>info at ffii org
>>tel. +49-89-18979927
>>
>>Erik Josefsson (Brussels Office)
>>erjos at ffii org
>>tel. +32-484-082063
>>
>>Jonas Maebe
>>FFII BE
>>jmaebe at ffii org
>>tel. +32-485-369645
>>
>>Rufus Pollock
>>FFII UK
>>rufus.pollock at ffii.org.uk
>>+44-1223-690423
>>
>>Gérald Sédrati-Dinet
>>Vice President FFII
>>gibus at ffii.fr
>>+33-6-60-56-36-45
>>
>>
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