Re: Press release: Victory for democratic influence on software patents

[Anne Østergaard <anne oestergaard nu>]

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 10:23 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> This is great, Anne. Congrats on any part you played in this.

I was there. (In The Danish Parliament for the 5th time.)

It is the Danish Minister of Commerce number 3 from the left, being
filmed for DK TV news.

Anne

> Luis
> 
> 
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:20:36 +0100, Anne Østergaard <anne oestergaard nu> wrote:
> > 
> > DENMARK will ask for software patents directive to become B-item in European Council of Ministers
> > ------
> > Press release:
> > 
> > Victory for democratic influence on software patents.
> > 
> > The Danish Parliament (by the EU Committee) has decided to change the
> > mandate of the Danish government to ensure that on the next meeting in
> > the EU Council the software patent directive will be discussed as a
> > B-item instead of passing as an A-item without any discussion.
> > 
> > Other parliaments have passed resolutions opposing the software patent
> > directive. But Denmark is the first country to call for a B-item and
> > thereby reopening the discussion. If just The Netherlands, Germany,
> > Poland, and Spain backs the Danish request, there will not be a
> > qualified majority in favor of passing the directive without discussion.
> > 
> > "This is a victory for the democratic process in the European Union.
> > Both in Denmark and the rest of Europe there have been a tremendous
> > interest in this issue.- IT-Political Association is ecstatic now that
> > there is a very good chance that the all the citizens in Europe will
> > have a chance to participate in the discussion of the directive," Ole
> > Tange, board member in IT-Political Association says. "We do not view
> > this as a failure for the proponents of the directive; if their
> > arguments are valid they would still have been valid after a democratic
> > discussion. Though so far we have not seen valid arguments."
> > 
> > Niels Elgaard Larsen, Anne Østergaard, and Ole Tange from IT-pol.dk
> > spoke to the EU Committee in Folketinget.dk as part of a delegation also
> > counting Peter Ussing from PROSA.dk and Peter Mogensen from
> > Digitalforbruger.dk
> > 
> > --
> > Best
> > 
> > Anne Østergaard
> > 
> > IT-Politisk Forening
> > 
> > (00 45 35 42 88 73)
> > --
> > Anne Østergaard <anne oestergaard nu>
> > 
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