Idées Libres pour un Monde Libre -- Manifestation et Cabaret devant le Parlament Européen a Bruxelles

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Jeudi 2003/05/08 13.00-14.30 BXL Place du Luxembourg

cf BXL 2003/05/08 Wiki für die Organisation der Veranstaltung

Propos de Programme

Needed::

• Stage
• Stage decoration, banners, posters
• Orator's podium, amps & speakers
• Piano

Éléments:

• Männerchor "Die Gedanken sind patentiert" mit Klavierbegleitung
• Funeral March, Gravestones with Patents
  cf http://www.elug.de/projekte/patent-party/freie-software/trauer.html
• Pantomime
• Speeches
• Award of Medals for 2nd Patent Infringment Programming Competition
  cf http://www.elug.de/projekte/patent-party/preise.html
• several km long rope with 30000 patents dangling at junctures

Schedule Draft:

12.30	Buffet near the site
13:00	Eröffnung durch Trauerzug
13:05	Begrüßung, kurze erklärende Worte
13:15	Die Gedanken sind patentiert
13:20	Pantomime
13:30	Reden
13:55	Siegerehrung
14:10	Die Gedanken sind patentiert
14:15	Pantomime
14:25	Abgang: Trauerzug
14:30	Ende

Liens Annotés

BXL 2003/05/08 Wiki für die Organisation der Veranstaltung Alexandre Dulaunoy of AEL.be and friends from all over Europe are working to offer optimal onsite support for guests to the May 2003 European (Anti) Software Patent Event in Brussels. posters created by Henk de Boer with support from vrijschrift.org

Questions, Choses à faires, Comment vous pouvez aider

Comment vous pouvez nous aider a terminer le cauchemare des brevets logiciel In what way can I participate in preparing the demo? cf BXL 2003/05/08 Wiki für die Organisation der Veranstaltung To participate in the cabaret and men's choir, get in contact with peter at gerwinski de for infos on how to partipate. Some banners need to be painted on the 7th. What Posters do we have? cf posters created by Henk de Boer What slogans can be used for banners? Your imagination is needed. Possibly sub-optimal examples: La Pensée est Libre? Non: Brevetée Software Patents = Professional Disbarment for Programmers E-Patents: A Threat against the IT Industry Free Ideas for as Free World! e-patents = e-xtortion e-patents = e-feudalism Programmers want to innovate, not litigate. Patents for new use of forces of nature Copyright for logical creations EPO, Stop Stealing Our Work! CEC, BSA, McCarthy, Fourtou: Europe's Biggest Software Pirates CEC, BSA, McCarthy, Fourtou: Stop Stealing Our Intellectual Property! Stop fait-accompli politics! "Program with a Further Technical Effect" = "Program as such". "Piracy with a Further Legal Effect" = "Piracy as such". further technical effect = furthest ethical defect Software Patents Violate Basic Freedoms! Freedom of Publication! Contractual Freedom! Freedom of Choice of Profession! Property in Individual Creation! Software Patents = Intellectual Expropriation *We* are the Software Creators, Down with IP Lawyer Tyranny! *We* are the Software People, Down with Software Stalinism! 1989: End of Totalitarianism; 2003: Begin of E-Totalitarianism? EU: Software Law written by Software Analphabets! EU lets Yesterday's Innovators Strangle Tomorrow's Innovation Yesterday's Hardware Innovators, Stop Strangling Tomorrow's Software Innovation Bring Software Literacy to the EU! We are the "Economic Majority" You may be the Financial Majority, but we are the Innovation Majority EU/BSA = Software Pirates Yes to E-Copyright, No to E-Patents Yes to E-Inclusion, No to E-McCarthyism Yes to eEurope, No to M$ Europe Patents Reward Business Failure European Patent Office into the UN! Think Globally Act Locally Down with WIPO & EPO Tyranny! Democratise Patent Legislation! Patents put ideas under control of money Put ideas in control of money, not money in control of ideas! Don't let the megacorps control our information Software patent = Thought Control Software patent = Speech Control EICTA, UNICE: Organised Industry Misrepresentation We are the Software Innovators, Why do you Want to Kill Us? [...]