In an open letter to the President of the Dutch House of Representatives, Mrs. G.A. Verbeet, Vrijschrift and Bits of Freedom asked to review the counterfeiting numbers the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs communicates in PRs to justify the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. According to the ministry the OECD calculated the international trade in counterfeiting to be 150 billion euros. According to a Vrijschrift analysis, this number is an estimate, not a calculation. Data contained in a 1997 US Government Accountability Office report suggests that the claims associated with counterfeiting are massively overstated. An English version of the Vrijschrift analysis is available at the FFII website.
Vrijschrift PR (Dutch) | Vrijschrift and Bits of Freedom letter (Dutch) | FFII english version
Entries tagged as imitatie
Tuesday, September 7. 2010
Open letter to President of the Dutch House of Representatives on counterfeiting numbers
Posted by Ante Wessels
at
11:01
| Comments (0)
| Trackbacks (0)
Defined tags for this entry: acta, auteursrecht, burgerrechten, downloaden, economie, europa, imitatie, merkenrecht, octrooien, transparantie
Last modified on 2010-09-07 11:14
Sunday, August 2. 2009
Reverse engineering: zegen of bedreiging?
Lang geleden werkte ik bij een Nederlandse autobussenfabriek en hield mij bezig met productontwikkeling. Op een dag gingen wij een hal binnen waar een vrij nieuwe ingeruilde Setra-bus van de concurrent stond. De bus werd van onder tot boven onderzocht, gestript. Welke materialen gebruiken ze? Welke technische concepten? Enzovoorts. Het was meer dan een studie, het doel was om af te kijken of ze bij Setra niet dingen slimmer deden om vervolgens die technieken toe te passen op ons eigen product - en dat natuurlijk beter!
Continue reading "Reverse engineering: zegen ... »
Posted by Wiebe van der Worp.
in Algemeen
at
20:29
| Comments (0)
| Trackbacks (0)
Defined tags for this entry: acta, auteursrecht, brein, imitatie, ipred, octrooien, vrije informatie
Not modified
Tuesday, July 28. 2009
Why we love imitation
The press and many lobby sensitive politicians try to make us think that imitation is a bad thing. True, there are examples of imitation resulting in damage to our society. However there is a problem with labeling imitation as a whole as bad. This is not hard to understand: imitation triggers innovation, in fact product development is the sum of 99% imitation + 1% new ideas. Putting it clear: blocking product development - progression - is Taliban style politics. Yes, the Taliban have infiltrated the European Parliament, see the letter below.
Continue reading "Why we love imitation" »
Posted by Wiebe van der Worp.
at
08:48
| Comment (1)
| Trackbacks (0)
Defined tags for this entry: acta, auteursrecht, imitatie, ipred, octrooien, publiek domein, vrije informatie
Last modified on 2009-07-28 12:47
(Page 1 of 1, totaling 3 entries)
