PRI's The World » copyleft http://www.theworld.org Global Perspectives for an American Audience Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:20:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Global Perspectives for an American Audience PRI's The World no Global Perspectives for an American Audience PRI's The World » copyleft http://www.theworld.org/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.theworld.org Pirate Parties Go Global http://www.theworld.org/2009/07/pirate-parties-go-global/ http://www.theworld.org/2009/07/pirate-parties-go-global/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:00:34 +0000 Clark Boyd http://www.theworld.org/?p=5356 The Pirate Party began in Sweden. Its political goals are to reform copyright and patent laws, and to campaign for citizen privacy, both online and in the real world. Now, the movement's gone global. Cyrus Farivar reports. >>>Listen to the story]]> piratepartysupportersNo, we’re not talking about the sea-faring variety of pirates. The Pirate Party got its start on January 1, 2006 in Sweden. According to the party’s website, it has three main goals: 1) fundamentally reform copyright law, 2) get rid of the patent system, and 3) ensure all citizens’ rights to privacy are respected. In April, The World interviewed the leader of Sweden’s Pirate Party, Rickard Falkvinge. That interview was about the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden, which saw four young men found guilty of violating copyright law. The case helped put the Pirate Party in the political spotlight. In early June, the Swedish Pirate Party captured a seat in the European Parliament. Now, it appears that the Pirate Party is catching on worldwide, including here in the United States.

Click on the player below to hear Cyrus Farivar’s report on the global growth of the Pirate Party.






You can find a list of international chapters of the Pirate Party here.


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