From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:17:23 +0200 From: Michael Shigorin To: smoke-room@lists.altlinux.org Message-ID: <20061120091723.GT17122@osdn.org.ua> Mail-Followup-To: smoke-room@lists.altlinux.org, legal@lists.altlinux.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: legal@lists.altlinux.org Subject: [room] Fwd: Vote for Commission's Patent Lobbying X-BeenThere: smoke-room@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: shigorin@gmail.com, =?koi8-r?b?y9XM2NTV0s7ZyiDPxtTP0MnL?= List-Id: =?koi8-r?b?y9XM2NTV0s7ZyiDPxtTP0MnL?= List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:17:44 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: FYI PS: crosspost, просьба отвечать в рассылку, где прочитали. ----- Forwarded message from Hartmut Pilch ----- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:49:51 +0100 From: Hartmut Pilch Subject: Vote for Commission's Patent Lobbying Dear supporter of the FFII[1], You have signed up as a supporter of the FFII as user 'mshigorn', thereby giving us a mandate to represent your interests in European patent policy matters. Upon signing up, you also explicitely agreed to receive occasional reports and alerts. You can withdraw your mandate any time by logging into your account at http://aktiv.ffii.org/ and choosing to "change your user/member status" from the main menu[1]. 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 community 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 phm/ffii.org Vice President FFII --- [1] This and other menu items become available only after you have completed the registration procedure. As long as you are not fully registered, the menu merely prompts you to complete your registration. Btw, sorry for writing in English only this time. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/