Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-23-Speech-2-032"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Patentability of computer-implemented inventions2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030923.2.2-032"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-23-Speech-2-0332
lpv:speaker	lp:Bent Hindrup Andersen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; JuniBevægelsen (2003-03-01--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (2003-03-01--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2003-03-25--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am a trained architect and have worked as an architect all my life. The problem we face in this case is like that which would arise from the introduction of patents in my own field. Let us imagine that patents were taken out on stairs so that, in future, approval was needed and a licence had to be paid for before a house with stairs could be designed. In a way, that would be a very good thing, since we should not then have all these wretched skyscrapers. It is a grotesque idea, however, that an individual colleague of mine or a major firm within my industry should be able in some way to obstruct all development. In the design and architectural work I have done, I have of course been protected by copyright law so that my work cannot be plagiarised. In actual fact, it is the same with software and all other artistic activity which can of course be compared with the design of software programs in which the design itself is protected by copyright law. Permitting the patenting of software in the EU would have negative consequences for the consumer, small and medium-sized enterprises, the whole ‘open source’ movement and innovation within the industry. One would have to be more than usually naive to believe that innovation in the EU were being encouraged by allowing an American firm to take out a patent on the use of the special Danish letters æ, ø and å in domain names, or that it would be of benefit to small and medium-sized enterprises if, before they began to develop their product, they had to invest in a department concerned with legal matters relating to patents. It should not be possible to patent either particular items of software or software ."@en1
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