[ffii] CORDIS: Schwindende Unterstützung für Rats-R ichtlinie

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im einzelnen nachzuvollziehen, berichtet die Nachrichtenagentur der
Europäischen Kommission CORDIS, dass die Entscheidung über eine 
"Politische Vereinbarung" des EU-Ministerrates über Softwarepatente
die notwendige Unterstützung bei den nationalen Regierungen nicht
mehr habe.

Die wesentlichen Passagen des CORDIS-Textes seien hier zitiert:

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   EU software patent directive under attack
   [Date: 2004-07-07]

   The European software patent directive, passed during the EU
   Competitiveness Council of 18 May, seems set to be reviewed after the
   Lower House of the Dutch Parliament passed a motion instructing the
   minister of economic affairs, Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst, to change the
   government's vote on the directive from a vote in favour to an
   abstention.

   Officials in other European countries also say that votes cast by
   ministers during the meeting were not a true indication of their
   governments' position. Countries involved include Denmark, Germany,
   Poland and Portugal.

   The political storm is the latest incident in the conflict between
   large corporations, supporters of patents with considerable research
   investments and small and medium sized software enterprises, computer
   scientists and research institutes who oppose software patents arguing
   patents would kill innovation and wipe out many of Europe's small
   companies.

   In an historic move, the Dutch parliament has asked to change the yes
   vote it cast in support of patenting software across Europe. The
   parliament argues it thought it was voting on a revised version of the
   original proposal put forward by EU Internal Affairs Commissioner Frits
   Bolkestein and containing the amendments made by the European
   Parliament. This version allowed patents for industrial inventions but
   not for pure software. In the end, however, that version was discarded
   by the Council of Ministers, who reverted to the original draft, which
   legalised software patents.

   'This political signal extends beyond the Netherlands. We hope that
   other EU countries with similar doubts will also retract their
   approval, resulting in a minority in favour of the proposed directive,'
   said Dieter Van Uytvanck, a spokesperson for the Dutch Foundation for a
   Free Information Infrastructure.

   Indeed, proposals have been introduced in parliaments in other EU
   countries, including Germany, to reflect on a change in their own
   votes.

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Hartmut Pilch, FFII e.V. und Eurolinux-Allianz            +49-89-18979927
330.000 Stimmen 3000 Bosse gegen Logikpatente       http://noepatents.org/
Innovation statt Patentinflation                    http://swpat.ffii.org/
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