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The UK's Pirate Party are celebrating 6 years since forming the party by launching a campaign retrospective; a series of blogs, posters, podcasts and videos.
On 30th July 2009, Andrew Robinson registered Pirate Party UK as a political party for the first time. Today, we are proud to celebrate our 6th Birthday, and launch #WeArrSix, our Pirate Party campaign retrospective.
Over the last 6 years, the world has changed dramatically, but Pirate Party UK have campaigned tirelessly for civil liberties, digital freedoms and democratic reform. During this time, PPUK have fought to create a dialogue around issues that are core to how people live in the modern age.
Over the next 4 weeks Pirate Party UK will be running a series of blogs, posters, podcasts and videos looking back over the last 6 years of UK political and Pirate history in detail, as well as looking ahead to the next 6. This includes raising the funds we need to make it all happen through a Crowdfunder at http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/WeArrSix
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Andy_R on Sunday August 02 2015, @07:36PM
When we set up the party 6 years ago, we had a lot of discussions over this. We received about 10 emails a day quoting that post by RMS, which is about the policy the Swedish Pirates had at the time for a 5 year copyright duration.
The fix was quite simple - write to RMS and ask how long he thought copyright should be to not put free software at a disadvantage. He told me that 10 years would be ok with him. The Pirate Party UK has never campaigned for anything shorter than that, so RMS is perfectly happy with our policy.
Sadly, we've never managed to make the fact that RMS is happy with our UK policy anywhere near as famous as the fact that he wasn't happy with the Swedish party's policy six years ago.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @06:57AM
I stand corrected, thank you for the reply! Looks like I should've looked closer at the durations. (Of course 10 years is arbitrary and I think the problem could have a much better resolution, like the escrow proposed in the article. After all, only that would be in line with the stated purpose of copyright.)
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Andy_R on Monday August 03 2015, @02:34PM
Source code escrow is a really nice idea - but the downside is that it would make the party's policy a lot more complex to explain, and the one thing we really don't have enough of is time in front or large audiences to explain things. Getting the press to cover nuanced political positions is really really tough, so the simpler and more soundbite-friendly a policy is, the more change of it getting accurate press coverage.