Given the inclusion in the Draft Law on Sustainable economy legislative changes affecting the free exercise of freedom of expression, information and the right of access to culture through the Internet, journalists , bloggers, users, professionals and internet writers express our firm opposition to the project, and declare that ...
- - The copyright can not be above the fundamental rights of citizens , including the right to privacy, security, presumption of innocence, to effective judicial protection and freedom of expression.
- - The suspension of fundamental rights is and must remain the exclusive competence of the judiciary . Not a close without trial. This blueprint, contrary to the provisions of Article 20.5 of the Constitution, put in the hands a non-judicial body, a body under the Ministry of Culture, the power to prevent English citizens access to any website.
- - The new legislation will create legal uncertainty around the English technology sector , damaging one of the few areas of development and future of our economy, hindering the creation of enterprises by introducing barriers to competition and slowing its international image.
- - The new proposed legislation threatens the creativity and hinder cultural creation. The Internet and successive technologies have democratized the creation and release of contents of any kind, no longer come predominantly from the traditional cultural industries, but from many different sources.
- - Authors , like all workers, are entitled to live out of their creative ideas, business models and activities associated with their creations . Trying to hold legislative changes to an outdated industry that can adapt to this new environment is neither fair nor realistic. If your business model is based on the control of the copies of the works and the Internet is not possible without violating fundamental rights, should look for another model.
- - believe that the cultural industries need to survive modern alternatives, effective, credible and affordable to suit new social uses , rather than limitations so disproportionate as to be ineffective in that they are pursuing.
- - Internet should function freely and without political interference sponsored by groups that seek to perpetuate outdated business models and make it impossible for human knowledge remains free.
- - We urge the Government to guarantee the neutrality law of the Network in Spain , to any pressure that may occur as a framework for developing a sustainable economy for the future.
- - propose a real reform of intellectual property rights-oriented end: return to the society of knowledge, promote the public domain and limit abuses of management entities.
- - In a democracy, laws and amendments should be adopted after due debate and consultation with all parties involved. It is unacceptable that legislative changes are made that affect fundamental rights in a non-organic law and deals with other matters.
NOTE: This manifesto was jointly written by journalists, bloggers and Internet users. If you agree, spread it in every way you can.
