[DMCA-Activists] EU Commission "DRM Workshop"

[Seth Johnson]

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Subject: [Fsfe-ie] DRM: European Commission not interested in
CivilSociety's position
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:57:02 +0100
From: "Teresa Hackett" <address@hidden>
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DRM: Commission not interested in Civil Society's position
12 October, 2004
http://www.edri.org/issues/copyright/drm/contact041011


Civil Society representatives, user and consumer advocates were
left almost speechless yesterday, October 11, at a hearing
organised by the European Commission on Digital Rights
Management. Due to the invitation policy of the Commission's DG
Internal Market, the event, organized to help the Committee
established under Article 12 of the EU Copyright Directive
evaluate the way Article 6 of that same Directive is being
transposed, was entirely dominated by the Digital Rights
Management Iindustry and by representatives of collecting
societies.

Speakers were required to speak only on a few specific points,
which, in the programme already, touched very little of DRM
technology's problematical implications. The only slot were these
problems could be discussed - "Developments in case law as well
as relevant economic, social or cultural or technological
developments" - was put on the agenda as the very last item.

Due to the bad enforcement of the speaking time limitations the
Commission itself had imposed, this agenda item, were almost all
of the Civil Society activists present had enlisted themselves,
was not discussed any more. During the afternoon, speakers of
industry firms and collecting societies had been allowed to speak
for up to 15 minutes, with a few speakers speaking up to an hour
in total.

Andreas Dietl, EDRI EU Affairs Director, comments:

    "The Commission seems to have decided to promote this
Orwellian technology not only against the declared will of a vast
majority of online users, but also without listening to them. If
the Commission won't listen to us at the events foreseen for that
purpose, we will have to figure out ways to make ourselves heard
otherwise."

Response to the EU Consultation on Digital Rights Management, by
Ross Anderson, Chairman of EDRI member FIPR
http://www.fipr.org/copyright/ipr-consult.html

"Putting users at the centre - achieveíng an 'information society
for all'" Response to the consultation by privatkopie.net and
EDRI member Bits of Freedom
http://www.privatkopie.net/files/privatkopie-bof_on-DRM.pdf

Programme of the Consultation
www.edri.org/files/EC_DRM_041012.pdf

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