On 12 Sep 2006, at 15:34, Graham Seaman wrote:
[A very short email] :-)
This is the reason why:
The Open Rights Group:
Our Goals:
To raise awareness in the media of digital rights abuses
To provide a media clearinghouse, connecting journalists with experts
and activists
To preserve and extend traditional civil liberties in the digital world
To collaborate with other digital rights and related organisations
To nurture a community of campaigning volunteers, from grassroots
activists to technical and legal experts
That is it is focused on the concept of 'digital rights' which, well
frankly, I don't believe even exist, and in any case seems to mean,
rhetorically, a similar kind of strategy as the EFF (the well known
libertarian legal/lobby group in the US).
Issues of copyright and intellectual property more broadly have
nothing to do with 'digital rights' and everything to do with the
impingement of democratic notions of public communication and
information in everyday life. Not digital, but real-life..
I believe that this focus on digital rights to be inherently flawed,
especially as the people who will be affected by IPR issues need not
even own a digital device in order to be affected by these changes in
IPR.
That is not to say that FC-UK could not form alliances with this
group, indeed they might share some of the same demands... just not
necessarily for the same reasons...
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