[rohrpost] Strategy Meeting Copyright Law @ Chaos Communication Camp

[Volker Grassmuck]

Strategy Meeting Copyright Law
at Chaos Communication Camp 2003
http://www.ccc.de/camp/2003/conference/

Sunday, 10 Agust 3003
13-15:00
Tent 2

The first round of digitization of the German copyright law according 
to the EU Copyright Directive has been concluded in early July. The 
next one will start right away. Time to look at the balance sheet and 
think together how to take it from here. 

- Summing up
Who were the main actors so far? What actions have been taken? Which 
proved effective?

- Issues (the Message)
What are our main critical issues and demands for the second round of 
copyright lawmaking?
	- enforcement of the digital private copy
	- preventing the abolishment of lump-sum levies
	- strengthening of exceptions for eduction and libraries
	- ...

- Forms of Activism (the Media)
Determining target audiences, and the channels and stages through 
which to reach them. (The search for the "seal babies" of the info 
sphere). 
	- Grassroots (demo, boycott, mass actions)
	- Agit Prop (symbolic actions targetting the press)
	- Juridical (test case, financial support for people being sued) 
	- Lobbying parliamentarians
	- ...

Links:
Status of national implementation of the EUCD 
http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status

Institut for Legal Question of Free and Open Source Software 
(ifrOSS) http://www.ifross.de/

privatkopie.net http://privatkopie.net/