Please forwared this to all list/groups about Softwae Patents or other groups like media, DVB, video... that us can my help.

Salve,

I tried my best to find people who record the press conference broadcasted european wide by satellite and to record the confrence by myself. BUT there is still help needed.

Tomorrow at 12:00h will be a rebroadcast of the press confrence and only a record of the english audio version exist, but not of the original, Frensh or German one. So it is urgent that people with a DVB-S card and Eutelsat tell me that they can record it:

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RETRANSMISSION |OR|EN|FR|DE|

Length: 00:32:20 Starting time 12h00'00''

Press conference on 'Software patents: for you to decide', prior to EP vote at September II plenary session - Participants :Daniel Marc COHN-BENDIT, Raina Mercedes ECHERER, Danielle AUROI, Neil MacCORMICK, Jim MURRAY, Director of the BEUC, Paul KLINT, President of the EAPLS, Hakon WIUM LIE, CEO of OPERA, recorded 17/09/03 - Information Society (European Parliament, Brussels) (EPRef-30976) -----------------------------------------

Satellite receiving information: http://europa.eu.int/comm/ebs/reception_en.html

If you have questions, please send me a PM or call me: +49 241 9968183 ----------------------------------------- So can see the english stream in MPEG4 format here:

http://www.optimalstream.net/external/ebs/ -----------------------------------------

Postproduction Video recording of the conference

The greens what to publish a reader about software patents on monday, and they what include parts of the conference as video on their webpage. Please help with a postproduction that there will be good material that they can use on Monday. They what the speach of Daniel Cohn-Bendit and I found the speach of Marco remakable, that this new law will kill medium-size IT-companies. I think 30 minutes or less would be fine.

BUT there was a problem with the sound, the orginal sound, Frensh and German exist as seperatly MP3 and have to be combined with the MPG video. The video itself needs a littel colour corretion (white balance) but this is not so importatnt.

For information about this postproduction please see the archive of http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/private/bxl/

Please be so kind and help with the postproduction and do not only download the draft videos.

In case you can help, please inform the bxl@ffii.org mailing list. You can ask me via news@RobertMichel.de +49 241 9968183 (0h-24h) But it could be that I be not reachable from 21.09. 12:00h- Monday.

Please become active independent from my feedback. -----------------------------------------

When you have a good server to store videos or a streaming server for populare fromats, contact bxl@ffii.org

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I`m sorry that I haven`t the equipment, software, knowledge to go on to make this recording publishable.

Greetings rob

Am Mittwoch, 10. September 2003 23:12 schrieb Frederic Couchet:

SOFTWARE PATENTS : THE CHOICE IS YOURS Wednesday 17 September 16.00 -18.30 European Parliament Brussels Room PHS 5B001

15.00 Press conference in briefing room

16:00 Introduction by Daniel Cohn-Bendit MEP Chair of the Green/Efa Group in EP

16:10 Presentation of the petition of the scientists: Dr. Alan Mycroft, Cambridge* http://www.math.chalmers.se/~bengt/petition.pdf

16:30 Presentation of the letter of the economists: Dr. Luc Soete, Founder of Merit (Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/technologie/0,39020809,39116150,00.htm

16:45 European consumer's point of view: Jim Murray, Director of the BEUC

17:00 Tim Berners-Lee, Director World Wide Web Consortium, founder of the www online statement, debate and chat (videoconference)*

17:30 Administration that switched to open source software (Germany) Jens Mülhaus Member City Council city of Munich

17:45 CEO of European SMEs testimony about software patents : Hakon Wium Lie, CEO of OPERA (web browser Opera, used on all platforms, also used on cell-phones and PDAs for eg. Motorola) www.opera.com

18:00 Debate

18:30 Conclusion

http://www.greens-efa.org