Subject: [Ecommerce] Upcoming EU Parliament Legal Affairs Committee session on the IP Enforcement Directive

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

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Philippe:

Many thanks - I'm reading it all
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On 20 Jan 2006, at 18:01, Philippe Aigrain wrote:

> Nick,
>
> There as been an informal coalition coordinated by EDRi, BEUC and Ross
> Anderson on the second IPR enforcement directive.
>
> See Ross' version of the result at :
> http://www.fipr.org/copyright/ipred2.html
>
> You can also look at pages I maintain.
> On both IPR enforcement directives :
> http://www.debatpublic.net/Members/paigrain/commons/exec-en
> On debunking the vocabulary used in the second one :
> http://www.debatpublic.net/Members/paigrain/commons/debunking-en/
>
> Best,
>
> Philippe
>
> From: Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton@spamcop.net>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:36:44 +0000
> Subject: [Ecommerce] Upcoming EU Parliament Legal Affairs Committee
> session on
> the IP Enforcement Directive
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> For those of you who do not know, there is a debate in the Legal
> Affairs Committee - something of a public hearing - in the context of
> the upcoming revisions to the directive above-referenced. This is at
> the Parliament on 30th January.
>
> I have been selected as the sole representative of the music sector
> to speak, so, I'm working with several NGOs to make remarks
> representative of the views of a large cross section of the industry,
> excepting the major phonogram producers (who always elbow everyone
> else out of being heard as much as they can in Brussels).
>
> There is a representative of BEUC attending and speaking a bit
> earlier in the session and I'm sure many other civil society groups
> will be present. It would be helpful to know who is going, and see
> any written comments which have been submitted, and/or hear any views
> that consumer interests care to make about the directive... I will of
> course be providing copies of my remarks.
>
> There will be a question and answer session later in the day for
> those present...
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> Regards,
>
> Nick Ashton-Hart
> PO Box 32160
> London N4 2XY
> United Kingdom
> Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011
> Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135
>
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