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In merito al testo emendato e votato ieri, Jonas Maebe di FFII afferma:

“Terrorists illegally copying and selling phone directories will probably not sleep very well tonight. Neither will spare parts makers who, according to Parliament, should risk criminal penalties if they infringe on a part’s design right. It is very strange that the rapporteur insisted on having these unexamined database and design rights included in the scope”, said Jonas Maebe, FFII analyst.

“Today, ‘inciting’ is only criminal in some member states, and in exceptional cases such as hate speech. Elevating IPRs to the same level is a scary development. The inciting clause is also reminiscent of the US ‘Induce Act’, which threatened to make MP3 players such as the iPod illegal”, Maebe added.

He continued: “On the positive side, Parliament did decide that abuse of these misguided measures has to be punishable, and that the neutrality of investigations should be safeguarded. It also explicitly mentioned several statutory exceptions to IPRs, where criminal measures should not be applied.”

Di fatto, lo scetticismo (direi quasi pessimismo) degli analisti legali della materia, è riferito alla definizione di “scala commerciale”, che viene etichettata come debole e certamente non sufficiente a proteggere da un’ingiusta criminalizzazione i consumatori e le giovani generazioni.