[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcf_discussion] Free Culture Ireland & The Free Culture Forum

[Kevin Flanagan]

Thanks Michel

On 2 December 2010 02:41, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Kevin Flanagan <kev.flanagan at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:12 AM
> Subject: [fcf_discussion] Free Culture Ireland & The Free Culture Forum
> To: fcforum_discussion at list.fcforum.net,
> free-culture-ireland at googlegroups.com
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> Hello Everybody,
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> I'm writing to bring those of you interested up to date on events in
> Ireland.
> Following the UPC ruling it seems the music industry and in particular
> Paul McGuinness U2's manager has had the ear of the Senate where the
> issue of filesharing was subsequently raised and debated.
> http://www.kildarestreet.com/sendebates/?id=2010-11-11.120.0
> The Irish Government seems to see its role more as a mediator between
> the business interests of ISPs and the Music Industry then as a
> guardian of peoples privacy and freedoms. A number of citizen bloggers
> including myself wrote to Senators. One of which was read to the
> record by Senator Brendan Ryan. A copy of my own letter can be found
> on my blog https://kevflanagan.wordpress.com/
>
> Having written to all the members of the Senate I received replies from 3.
>
> Senator Ciaran Canon responded that he will continue to support the
> music industry until "those who are anxious to allow free and
> unfettered access to the internet can come up with some mechanism for
> protecting artists"
>
> Senator Ivana Bacik said "I share your concerns about the potential
> criminalising of music fans for file sharing, and about the need for
> the music industry to look at different models for enabling the
> downloading of music over the internet instead of just clamping down
> heavily in the '3 strikes' style of response."
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> I sent a 2nd letter which included links to research on filesharing
> which I want to thank Jérémie and everyone who put it together at La
> Quadrature its a great resource
> http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Studies_on_file_sharing_eng
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> Following this I received correspondence from Senator David Norris who
> seemed to be most active and vocal in raising the issue of filesharing
> in Senate and he said the following -
>
> "With regard to Neelie Kroes who you quote in your last paragraph I
> have no difficulty what ever with that. It seems a very sensible view.
> I am happy to continue to be briefed by you although I am not sure
> what is going to happen now in these very difficult political times.
> It is unlikely that there will be major concentration on this
> particular aspect of things."
>
> So the battle is not yet lost and it seems the crisis in the politics
> of this country has bought us some time to organise.
> I've started a mailing list for this purpose - Free Culture Ireland
>
> https://groups.google.com/group/free-culture-ireland
>
> So far it is just a small group but I'm counting on the principle that
> if you build it they will come.
> It would be great if you could share this link with anyone you think
> might be interested.
> On the list description I've linked directly to the Charter and
> encourage all new members to read it.
>
> Also there has been some interesting movement in the whole area of
> Open Data here
> As we were meeting in Barcelona a group got together and set up
>
> https://groups.google.com/group/open-data-ireland
>
> There was a http://scraperwiki.com/ hackathon in Dublin and this
> Saturday the 4th in collaboration with http://www.deri.ie/ my local
> hackerspace http://www.091labs.com will be hosting a hackathon for
> international Open Data Day.
>
> So lots happening
> Ok its late time to switch off
>
> Sorry I've taken so long to get in touch
> It was lovely to meet so many of you in Barcelona
> You gave me lots of energy and inspiration
>
> Wishing you all the best
>
> Kevin Flanagan
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