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<h4>Most up-todate status info: 
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            [6] =>  including history.</h4>
<p class="tightenable">After the vote:</p>
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<td colspan="4"><ul><li class="tightenable top bottom">12/03/2004 Lucy Sherriff 
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            [40] => <br /><small>The Director-General of the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF), Mr. Franz-Hermann Brüner, has presented his Annual Activity Report for the 12-month period ending 30 June 2003. This Report concentrates on the operational achievements of the Office in this period. It contains case studies that illustrate how OLAF conducts investigations, together with statistical analysis which demonstrates the growth in OLAF operations and their increasing impact in the fight against EC budget fraud. OLAF estimates the total financial impact of the investigations completed during the reporting period at more than €850 million.<br /> <br />OLAF is independent and also looks at conflicts of interest...</small></li>
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<p class="tightenable bottom">Amendment lists:</p>
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<p class="tightenable top bottom">Documents:
Council Feb 16 COREPER position:</p>
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<p class="tightenable bottom">Statements with critical elements:</p>
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            [94] => )<br /><small> It has been distributed to Austrian MEPs last summer. It's about the original proposal, but much of it still applies since the Council's common position as of the last COREPER meeting(
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<h2>Intellect UK:</h2>
<p class="tightenable top"><small>Intellect is the trade association for the information technology, telecommunications and electronics industries in the UK, representing over 1000 organisations.</small></p>
<ul><li class="tightenable bottom"><small> The Directive could present new risks and liabilities for companies conducting bona-fide businesses in Europe. That could make Europe an unattractive forum for innovative businesses.</small></li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom"><small> The Directive risks putting unduly strong weapons in the hands of a rightsholder with a very weak, possibly even invalid right. It might even encourage the holder of such a weak right to hold a bona-fide business to ransom through the threat of the Directive's harsh procedures.</small></li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom"><small> Furthermore, in cases of commercial dispute between parties where the ownership and potential infringement of intellectual property rights is incidental to the main subject matter of the dispute, affording harsh remedies to the rightsholder creates imbalance in the resolution of that dispute and an increased likelihood of an unjust outcome.</small></li>
<li class="tightenable top"><small>&quot;Good faith infringements&quot; (meaning those infringements which are not deliberate or reckless, where couterfeiting or piracy is not involved) should not be subject to the harsher penalties proposed by the Directive, and should preferably be out of the scope of the Directive altogether.</small></li>
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<p class="tightenable bottom"><strong>Intellect UK's full statement(
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<p class="tightenable top bottom">The Environment this directive is placed in is surrounded by:</p>
<ul><li class="tightenable top bottom">a vast amount of minor non-commercial copyright infringements, often on no longer commercially exploited and thus unavailable material my music lovers, but also on music and film media which is in phases of critical commerical exploitation like the so-called &quot;release-window&quot; where the biggest amount of revenue of block-busters is made. The widespread distribution of copyrighted material which is currently commercially exploited or which might in the future be commercially exploited(which also infringes the moral right of authors of control over the first publication) is a harm which lobbyists from especially the movie industry aim to fight.</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">copying of CDs, DVDs and Video Tapes for commercial gain</li>
<li class="tightenable top">counterfeiting and organized crime</li>
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<p class="tightenable bottom">As long as the scope of the directive is wide, this directive also gives possibilty to abuses:</p>
<h3>Danger to SMEs</h3>
<p class="tightenable bottom">All the uncertainities on this directive boil down to at least to a possible big problem: Financially strong(usually bigger) companies could have a welcome tool at hand to drive competition from financially weak but innovative SMEs(or smaller/weaker companies in general) out of business:</p>
<h4>Patent cases are one example where intentional infringement is rare.</h4>
<p class="tightenable top">A lot of patents are very abstract in their scope and there are too many of them around so it is almost impossible to even get an overview in some areas of conduct. Even the European patent office refuses to take responsiblity for their own prior art searches carried out on request by patent applicants.</p>
<ul><li class="tightenable">This is of course not limited to patents (which was said the parliament wants to cut out of this text) but also to copyright wars like SCO/Linux.</li>
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<p class="tightenable bottom">Using the interaction of unclearly defined scope, harsh measures with a low set of requirements to be applied which are not even used against terrorism in some member states, financially strong companies could, without any intent to ever file a case get that measures ordered on mere suspect which will be kept up for at least one month without giving any chance to the culprit to fight against these measures or even be informed in before execution.</p>
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<h4>Paper by Ross Anderson: 
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<p class="tightenable bottom">Articles in the news about the IPR Enforcement  Directive and possible real effects:</p>
<ul><li class="tightenable top bottom">2004-02-20 out-law.com 
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            [102] =>  (overview of FFII PR)</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">2004-02-19 The Register 
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            [104] =>  (describes FFII PR)</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">2004-02-19 lwn.net 
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<li class="tightenable top bottom">2003-11-27 
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<li class="tightenable top bottom">2003-11-19 
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<li class="tightenable top bottom">2003-11-13 
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            [112] => <br /><small>The vast majority of UK businesses do not understand new copyright obligations covering websites, intranets and even photocopiers, according to a survey commissioned by intellectual property law firm Bristows.</small></li>
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