[Linuxtrent] [Fwd: Vote for Commission's Patent Lobbying]
- From: Flavio Visentin <THe_ZiPMaN@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: linuxtrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:34:58 +0100
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Subject: Vote for Commission's Patent Lobbying
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:10:44 +0100
From: Hartmut Pilch <.......@xxxxxxxx>
To: .......@xxxxxxxxx
Dear supporter of the FFII[1],
You have signed up as a supporter of the FFII as user 'zipman', thereby
giving us a mandate to represent your interests in European patent policy
matters. Upon signing up, you also explitely agreed to receive occasional
reports and alerts. You can withdraw your mandate any time by logging into
http://aktiv.ffii.org/ and choosing to "change your user/member status" from
the main menu. However, as you can learn from our website, the freedoms
which
you entrusted us to defend continue to be under siege, and our work
continues
to produce results that deserve your support.
We are very grateful to all who voted previously in the polls for the "EV50
Europeans of the Year" and "Worst EU Lobbying Award". Previously the
level of
participation from our movement in these actions has been tremendous
which is
why, today, we would like to bring one more online poll to your awareness:
- - Corporate Europe Observatory (corporateeurope.org), an organization that
keeps track of questionable lobbying tactics and EU institutions or
officials who "have their ears a little too open for one side of the
story",
has nominated the European Commission's DG Internal Market for this year's
"Worst Privileged Access Award": http://www.worstlobby.eu/selectwinner.php
for "manipulating a consultation on EU patent policies".
In carrying out its' own round of additional consultation following
the end
of the official commission consultation "On the Future of European Patent
Policy" together with "a disturbing degree of preferential treatment for
corporate proponents of US-style software patents... DG Internal Market’s
flawed consultation raises the suspicion that it was primarily concerned
with legitimising its own patent policy proposal no matter what."
If, like us, you share concerns surrounding these issues you can vote
"for"
DG Internal Market: http://www.worstlobby.eu/selectwinner.php# and, if
they
"win", i.e. if that consultation is chosen as the worst privileged access
in the EU in 2006, then you will help draw attention to the unbalanced and
flawed methods employed in drawing up Europe's innovation and patent
policy.
- - Corporate Europe Observatory are also running their 'Worst EU Lobbying
Award" again which last year, the keen among you may remember, was won by
"Campaign for Creativity" - nominated as a fake NGO brilliantly disguising
corporate demands as grassroots concerns. We trust you will find a
suitable
candidate of your own preference from the nominations this year as it is
required that you vote for both categories.
Thank you for underscoring the importance of our cause to politicians, the
press and the public through your participation in such polls.
Best regards,
Hartmut Pilch
.......@xxxxxxxx
Vice President FFII
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Flavio Visentin
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