dear friends, thanks for making a special effort to spread this: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carolina Botero <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 12:59 AM Subject: A case in Colombia you would lime to support To: (Sorry for cross posting) Hello all I am writting to you because you all had been critics of the copyright laws and their unintended bad effects. you all are people that can reach others to support us, sorry to bother on a weekend, but do read this when you have a couple of minutes please. You know me somehow and know that Karisma works in Colombia and Latin America on issues of Open Access and on the promotion of human rights in the digital environment, this time I am asking you to look at this Colombian case that is related to our activism I will like to draw your attention to this case in Colombia where a biology student is facing a criminal process after sharing in 2011 on the Internet a Master Thesis written by another Colombian biologist (without asking for permission). We believe this case is an evidence of exagerated criminal copyright laws and also an evidence of the need to rethink the way that science circulates, I can give more information to those of you that might be interested Most of the documents are in Spanish, but you can read the story told by Diego in Karisma's campaign page here: http://www.karisma.org.co/compartirnoesdelito/?p=256 EFF is helping us spread the word https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/colombian-student-faces-prison-charges... And there has been already some noise in English http://www.dailydot.com/politics/diego-gomez-article-lawsuit-eff/ <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailydot.com%2Fpolitics%2Fdiego-gomez-article-lawsuit-eff%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHGZnJtzmH0mn7ZLlEti3h-euaBAg> Thanks for helping us say #CompartirNoEsDelito (means Sharing is not a crime) If you need more information just contact me Carolina -- *Carolina * Fundación Karisma http://www.karisma.org.co/carobotero @carobotero -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/