Re: Setting up a well-funded Digital Rights campaign organisation

On Monday 25 July 2005 10:25, Martin Keegan wrote:
> > 2. The pledge says "to support an organisation that will campaign for
> > digital rights in the UK"; but most intellectual property law comes from
> > Brussels these days, so isn't it equally important, or more important, to
> > campaign on a European level?
>
> You need to have both the national and European levels covered due to the
> way the EU structures work (not a problem, say, in the US, where state
> entities have no formal say in federal matters), but I guess to the extent
> that you're saying that people setting up a digital rights campaigning
> organisation for the UK are in for a very rude shock about how their
> country is now goverened, I agree with you.

Someone has now done a Pledgebank for an EU-wide digital rights organisation:

<http://www.pledgebank.com/DigitalRightsEU>

So I have signed both.

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