Italy. The rise of a new copyright law
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Francesco Rutelli (PD), Italian minister of culture appointed a committee to review and propose amendments to the current Italian Copyright Law (L. 633/41).
The Committee appointed a tenth of Working Group to handle the technicalities of the legal wording. Members of the WG come from the industry (telco, etertainment, publishers) and from a (self professed and never actually heard before) left wing oriented NGO.
The lack of true civil society representativeness in these Working Groups raises serious concerns about the future of right of author in Italy.