[Fsf-friends] [Fwd: [Ilugc] Adelphi Charter]

Ramanraj K ramanraj.k at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 04:51:24 CEST 2005


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Subject: 	[Ilugc] Adelphi Charter
Date: 	Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:57:59 +0530
From: 	Sivasankar Chander <siva.ilugc at gmail.com>
To: 	Indian Linux Users Group - Chennai <ilugc at ae.iitm.ac.in>



Britain's Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures
and Commerce (RSA),

http://www.rsa.org.uk/

which is a venerable 250-year old institution, has issued the Adelphi
Charter,
drafted by numerous eminent personalities, including a Nobel Laureate and
various legal luminaries, which links IP policy to public benefit:

[Adelphi Charter] http://www.ipcharter.org/

[Commission Members] http://www.ipcharter.org/group.asp

[Guardian]
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/comment/story/0,9828,1591467,00.html

[Economist]
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5032375

Among other things, it recommends a ban on the issue of software patents and
business
and medical process patents.

-Siva
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