Hi all:
Today's post is not about wine. Will the defense of fundamental rights on the internet that would amenzados from legislative changes under the Bill of Sustainable Economy presented these days by the government.
I share with you the manifesto verbatim copying Blog David and has been released today by hundreds of bloggers and that have echoed other media inside and outside the borders of Spain.
Here is the manifest. Please spread the word to your blog, Twitter, social networks, forums or print it and distribute it.
Before inclusion in the Draft Law on Sustainable Economy legislative changes affecting the free exercise of freedom of expression, information and the right of access to culture through the Internet, journalists, bloggers, users, professionals and developers internet express our strong opposition to the project, and declare that ...
- The copyright can not be above the fundamental rights of citizens, including the right to privacy, security, presumption of innocence, effective judicial protection and freedom of expression.
- The suspension of fundamental rights is and must remain the exclusive competence of the judiciary. Not a close without judgment. This blueprint, contrary to the provisions of Article 20.5 of the Constitution, put into the hands of a non-judicial body, a body under the Ministry of Culture, the power to keep Spanish citizens access to any website.
- The new legislation will create legal uncertainty around the Spanish technology sector, damaging one of the few areas of development and future of our economy, hindering the creation of enterprises by introducing barriers to competition and slowing its international expansion.
- The new proposed legislation threatens creativity and hinder cultural creation. With Internet and new technologies have democratized the creation and release of contents of any kind, no longer come predominantly from the traditional cultural industries, but from many different sources.
- The authors, like all workers are entitled to stand on their own creative ideas, business models and activities associated with their creations. Trying to hold with legislative changes to an outdated industry who can not adapt to this new environment is neither fair nor realistic. If your business model is based on the control of the copies of the works and the Internet is not possible without violating fundamental rights, should look for another model.
- We believe that cultural industries need to survive modern alternatives, effective, credible and affordable to adapt to new social practices, rather than limitations so disproportionate as to be ineffective in that they are pursuing.
- Internet should function freely and without interference from groups that seek to perpetuate obsolete business models and make it impossible that human knowledge remains free.
- We urge the Government to guarantee the neutrality law of the Network in Spain, to any pressure that may occur as a framework for developing a sustainable economy for the future.
- We propose a real reform of intellectual property rights aimed at an end: back to society the knowledge, promote the public domain and limit abuses of copyright organizations.
- In a democracy, laws and amendments should be adopted after due debate and consultation with all parties involved. It is unacceptable that legislative changes are made that affect fundamental rights in a non-organic law that deals with another matter.
