[Esp-action-alert] Video: Patent Absurdity; Text: ACTA (official)

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

**VIDEO**

Patent Absurdity is a half-hour film, using the Bilski case as a backdrop to
explain the problems caused by software patents and how software became
patentable in the USA.

http://patentabsurdity.com/

More information about the covered topics can be found here:

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Patent_Absurdity
http://news.swpat.org/2010/04/patent-absurdity/


**TEXT**

The other big annoucement is that the negotiators have now published the
official text of the ACTA treaty.  More information here:

http://news.swpat.org/2010/04/acta-text-released/

There you'll find a list of provisions that make software patents even more
dangerous than they already are.

-- 
Ciaran O'Riordan
Executive Director, End Software Patents

http://endsoftwarepatents.org/
http://en.swpat.org/
http://news.swpat.org/