The complete text can be found at http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc...
Or http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/news/index.htm (I'm said).
An interesting comment by Philippe Aigrain (speaking only for himself) was sent to freesw@conecta.it some time ago; I think the archives are public, you can search for:
From: Philippe.Aigrain@cec.eu.int Message-ID: 8944D19B724BD4119F22009027CA2F920270FBDA@EX2LUJMOMBX03 To: freesw@conecta.it Subject: RE: [Freesw] DMCA is now a European Directive Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:04:36 +0200
(if the archives are not public, then I don't think I'm allowed to repost here, I don't know as I'm in email-only mode).
What should we do ? Anyone experienced in political lobbying ?
All restrictions are compusory, all exceptions for fair use are optional. So we definitely should lobby in each member state to at least accept all the options in the local implementation of the directive
/alessandro, very concerned about this "intellectual property" fuss