EU Copyright Reform: Your Input Is Needed!

An anonymous reader writes "The European Commission has finally (as of last month) opened its public consultation on copyright reform. This is the first time the general public can influence EU copyright policy since fifteen years back, and it is likely at least as much time will pass until next time. In order to help you fill out the (English-only, legalese-heavy) questionnaire, some friendly hackers spent some time during the 30c3 to put together a site to help you. Anyone, EU citizen or not, organization or company, is invited to respond (deadline fifth of February). Pirate MEP Amelia Andersdotter has a more in-depth look at the consultation."

Comments

Re:Abolish it.

[Bert64]

The concept of owning a physical good has been around a long time, and without laws people simply used physical force to protect their ownership.

The same thing is not true of information... You can protect information by keeping it secret, but once the secret gets out you can't stop it from spreading. Similarly the spread of information doesn't deprive the originator of that information.