EU software patents
Community Patent Consultation (2006) - Commission consultation on the future of the European patent system
Conference on "Claiming Economic Majorities: the Software Patent Case" (2005)
Economic Majority (2005) - A European SME campaign against software patents
europarl.ffii.org (2005) - Our demands for the historical 2nd reading vote in the European Parliament
noepatents.eu.org No Software Patents! - A popular campaign site edited by Peter Gerwinski
patinfo.ffii.org A German popular campaign site managed by Peter Gerwinski
Nosoftwarepatents.com (2004) - A popular website founded by Florian Müller which raises awareness about software patents (later transferred to the FFII)
Protect Innovation (2004) - A website by FFII UK which collects business testimonies
Webshop (2004) - A collection of software patents which E-Commerce solution providers might infringe
Conference on "Regulating Knowledge: Costs, Risks, and Models of Innovation" (2004)
Conference on "Software Patent Legislation Benchmarking" (2004)
- Call for Action [ffii:swpat:/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/demands/index.en.html I], [ffii:swpat:/papers/europarl0309/demands/ II], [ffii:swpat:/papers/europarl0309/demands/0504/index.en.html III] - Demands of FFII and businesses, academics and citizens concerning planned patent regulation
Eurolinux Petition (2000) - FFII was a founding member of the Eurolinux Petition which attracted over 400 000 signatures
WIPO development agenda and A2K
The FFII signed a NGO Group Statement Supporting the Friends of Development Proposal
Data retention
In December 2005 the FFII actively supported the campaign by ISPs and Civil Rights Groups against costly blanket monitoring of all telecommunications (data retention)
Open standards
- FFII.sk campaigns for Open Document formats (2005- )
<NO>OOXML: Say NO to Microsoft Office broken standard (2007) - Microsoft's attempt to standardise their proprietary file format at ISO
Copyright regulation
FFII supports author's rights and interoperability enforcement.
- The FFII works on improving the [ffii:action:ipred2 IPRED2 directive]
The FFII FR supported EUCD.info (2005/2006)
- The FFII signed Berlin Declaration on Collectively Managed Online Rights: Compensation without Control (2004)
- The FFII UK campaigned against IPRED1 (2004)
EU R&D framework program 7
- The FFII drafted amendment proposals to the Buzek report (2006)
Information goods for public benefit
wortbasar.ffii.org (~2000) - early FFII campaign for free German dictionary ressources
CJK - The FFII provides webhosting for a LaTeX 2e macro package which enables the use of CJK scripts (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) in various encodings, written by Werner Lemberg.
Groff - The FFII hosts the famous groff tool. the groff (GNU Troff) software is a typesetting package which reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output. Groff now supports HTML.
- UMI (Universal Media Interface, Thomas Tanner)
- MHLT - Multilingualer Hypertext
c42pdf, transformation tool for document scans, used by document delivery services such as subito at German University libraries
External software patent campaigns
Nosoftwarepatents - Award - An initiative by 1&1 Internet (2006)
ThankPoland.info - by Norbert Bollow, aimed to thank the government of Poland for its strong role in the Council of Ministers
Patentfrei.de - by a German SME coalition
Softwarepatente.com (2004)
