CodeLiberty hit by server outage
Code Liberty has had to move servers after a corrupt file system on the previous host resulted in lost data and a 3 day outage. Everything should be fully operational by the 1st September, when new documents are due to be released.
Important Software Patenting Information
Why are software patents illegal under international law?
A short summary of the arguments that you probably haven't heard about software patenting and why it could place us in breach of Treaties.
The Origins of Software Patenting: The Fatal Presumption
this paper debunks some of the myths about copyright and patent law overlap
"Computer-Implemented Inventions" and International Obligations: Legal Facts, Legal Fictions
This essay shows the gradual decline into patenting of pure software and mentions the points about how selective interpretation of Treaties does not add up..
Read the full address to the FFII at the EU Parliament on the subject of "software inventions".
This contains hyperlinks to all relevant treaties so you can make up your own minds as to whether you agree. I also demonstrate why the Council document is flawed.
See Compliance chart of the Parliament Directive and the Council "Compromise"
The Dream Directive Explains simply why the Parliament proposals work
How did your MEP vote on the Softpat Directive?
This database has been compiled with the help of people credited at the bottom of it. The project has included
obtaining the roll call lists, and matches them to constituencies. The grade is based on how many of the amendments are voted for
in agreement with the FFII position.
The Patent Newspeak Translator
Having problems understanding what certain "IP professionals" and patent lobby groups are trying to say?
The Newspeak decoder is a translator for the rest of us "mere peasants" who do not understand the gobbledygook. (I make no warranty for the correct functioning of this, but it is fascinating!)
Enjoy a monologue with
Mad Ronny
, the automated intellectual property lobbyist with patent pending FUD on the fly "technology". Ronny could save your IP department thousands as he generates nonsense endlessly to further the cause of abusive intellectual property laws. Ronny is about as responsive to your input as an EU Commission consultation.
