Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-07-05-Speech-2-025"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-07-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Patentability of computer-implemented inventions2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050705.6.2-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-07-05-Speech-2-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Umberto Guidoni2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Japan (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Partito dei Comunisti Italiani (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; ITRE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, although it is stated in the common position that there is a desire to exclude the patentability of pure software, the conditions are, in fact, being created for eventually patenting software algorithms. Unlike copyright, which protects the whole program, software patenting would allow a monopoly on the use of general instructions. By patenting those algorithms, in a complex program that is nothing more than a combination of thousands of instructions, hundreds of patents could be simultaneously violated. Linux, for example, which is now used in various programs including those used by governments, is said to violate 283 US patents. Introducing patenting rules could therefore mean the end of a free and open source software, at least in Europe. If the patentability of software were approved, as US multinationals and the European countries that profit from the US monopoly very much want, a shift in costs would occur from the technology and innovation sector to the legal and insurance sector. All of that would contribute to excluding small and medium-sized enterprises from the process of software development because of the costs and the legal complexities. All in all, there would be less competition and less innovation and European consumers would have to put up with increased costs and reduced choice. The Lisbon Strategy on the European economic model combines together technological innovations, competitiveness and solidarity. The Council position is at odds with that, however. The software patentability directive, attacks the right to the free transfer of knowledge and calls into question the objective of an information society that is accessible to all. For that reason, the battle against the patentability of software that we are conducting in this House has become a battle for freedom and democracy."@en1

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