Presented at
Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017),
Aug. 4, 2017, 9:10 p.m.
(60 minutes)
In July 2005, after several failed attempts to legalise software patents in Europe, the patent establishment changed its strategy. Instead of explicitly seeking to sanction the patentability of software, they are now seeking to create a central European patent court, which would establish and enforce patentability rules in their favor, without any possibility of correction by competing courts or democratically elected legislators.
#Copyright #Patents
Presenters:
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Benjamin Henrion / zoobab
as zoobab
Benjamin is the President of the FFII.org, which has been fighting against software patents since 1999. He has launched several popular campaigns on the internet, such as the August 2003 and June 2005 web demonstrations against software patents, the PublicGeoData campaign for public maps, or the campaign against Microsoft's Office standardization at ISO (OOXML). His interests lies in computer science, politics, and mountain biking.
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