Swedish Pirate Party tipped for EU win
COPENHAGEN - As a candidate for the European Parliament elections on Sunday, the Swedish Pirate Party has “good chances” of winning one, two or possibly even three mandates, it says, referring to Swedish opinion polls.
The Swedish Pirate Party’s platform has three components: It wants to do away with the patent system, it wants to reform the copyright system and limit protection (“Today’s copyright terms are simply absurd. Nobody needs to make money 70 years after he is dead,” it says), and it wants to protect individual freedom from the “surveillance state.”
Full article at Intellectual Property Watch.
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