EU parliament refuses law on software patents!

EU parliament refuses law on software patents!

โดย Don Quixote -
Number of replies: 8
An overwhelming majority of 648 votes of a total of 680 votes refused it.
Links will follow (Just watched it on TV)

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Re: EU parliament refuses law on software patents!

โดย Teemu Sumi -
This is interesting:

The protection would also have extended to computer programs, but only when the software is used in the context of realizing inventions.

But who would decide when the software is used in the context of realizing inventions?


NO SOFTWARE PATENTS

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Teemu
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โดย werner mülders -
So the Parliament stood up against the the MS-Brussels-alliance! The burocracy was defeated. And perhaps the arrogance of some of the "global players".

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Re: EU parliament refuses law on software patents!

โดย Giulio Maistrelli -
I am very happy too of the final result, the Parliament is metres away from my office here in Strasbourg and I followed the entire process over tue-wed (some posts with more info on what they said in the Parliament on my blog).

I have however to say that a vast part of the MEPs had not a single clue of the difference between copyright and patents, and the fact the vote went the way it did, have far much to do with a "retaliation" by the Parliament on the Commission and the European Council than with the content of the proposal itself. sad

The final result is there, but it would be a giant mistake to stop campaigning in the same direction... there's a massive ignorance on these themes around here... sad

Have a nice day!
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โดย David Delgado -
I am also very happy about it smile : it just seems to me that protecting a simple idea can break the development of new ones.

Anyway, as far as I know, it is still far from being rejected in the USA: there are patents such as the "idea" of a "plugin". tongueout I hope someday they do the same as the EU I am living in.
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