[Asolif] BSA contenta con el Gobierno Español

Informe del meta-lobby IIPA sobre España: http://www.iipa.com/rbc/2010/2010SPEC301SPAIN.pdf «One positive note in Spain is reported by the business software industry. Thanks to an awareness campaign sponsored by the Ministry of Industry, the software piracy level within the distribution channel has been dramatically reduced (although software piracy levels by business end users remain at similar levels). Due to the success of this campaign, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) is negotiating with the Ministry of Industry to conduct a new campaign during 2010, now extended to business end users -- especially small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) -- seeking similar reductions in organizational end-user software piracy levels, which contribute to a decrease of the general piracy rate. In addition, BSA has been organizing during the last years, in full cooperation with the Spanish Government, yearly events with police forces (“Congreso Nacional de Policía Tecnologíca”). It is anticipated that the new event for 2010 also will involve judges and prosecutors, in order to increase awareness within the judiciary. Furthermore, BSA entered into a cooperation agreement with the Tax Agency several years ago, which is likely to result in a greater involvement of the tax authorities in the fight against software piracy during 2010. Considering all these positive developments, and considering that BSA is detecting a more sensible approach from the Ministry of Culture towards the problem of business software piracy, BSA is satisfied with the involvement and actions developed during 2009 by the Spanish Government within the specific field of business software piracy.» Más aquí: http://www.iipa.com/2010_SPEC301_TOC.htm Saludos, -- Alberto Barrionuevo, FFII Iberoamerican and Open Standards WGs www.ffii.org / ffii.org.es "In July 2005, after several failed attempts to legalise software patents in Europe, the patent establishment changed its strategy. Instead of explicitely seeking to sanction the patentabilitty of software, they are now seeking to create a central European patent court, which would establish and enforce patentability rules in their favor, without any possibility of correction by competing courts or democratically elected legislators." -- http://eupat.ffii.org/