Pirate Party of Kazakhstan
Encyclopedia
The Pirate Party of Kazakhstan is a political party
in Kazakhstan
. Based on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party, it supports intellectual property
reform, freedom of speech
and privacy
. It was a founding member of Pirate Parties International
.
and other laws should not be a pretext for punishing non-commercial participants in the exchange of information, limiting the right
of the author to choose how to work a publisher or Censorship
.
should encourage and reward writers, respecting and observing the rights of others
.
Kazakhstan's legislation should respect internationally recognized free licenses such as licenses Creative Commons
, GNU GPL / GFDL, BSD License and others, and contribute to their performance in full.
s should be encouraging and rewarding inventors, not an artificial impediment of free competition. In industries where this is impossible, patent
s should be abolished.
, Network Protocols , open formats
and files using completely Free software programs
.
All the results of intellectual activity of the authorities, including laws, regulations and standards should have the status of public domain
and be available for free inspection and copying.
Gathering information about the citizen is permissible only by court order and only to persons reasonably suspected of committing crimes.
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...
in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
. Based on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party, it supports intellectual property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
reform, freedom of speech
Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is the freedom to speak freely without censorship. The term freedom of expression is sometimes used synonymously, but includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used...
and privacy
Privacy
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively...
. It was a founding member of Pirate Parties International
Pirate Parties International
Pirate Parties International is the political international of the Pirate Party movement. It was formally founded in 2010 at the PPI conference in Brussels, Belgium.-Aims:The PPI statutes give its purposes as:...
.
The freedom to redistribute and access to information
Free-for-profit information sharing in any way in any medium, in any medium. The persecution of its members is unacceptable. Laws of CopyrightCopyright
Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...
and other laws should not be a pretext for punishing non-commercial participants in the exchange of information, limiting the right
Discrimination
Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category. It involves the actual behaviors towards groups such as excluding or restricting members of one group from opportunities that are available to another group. The term began to be...
of the author to choose how to work a publisher or Censorship
Censorship
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.
The reform of copyright in accordance with the interests of authors and society, rather than publishers
The Copyright SystemCopyright
Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...
should encourage and reward writers, respecting and observing the rights of others
Civil rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.Civil rights include...
.
Kazakhstan's legislation should respect internationally recognized free licenses such as licenses Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
, GNU GPL / GFDL, BSD License and others, and contribute to their performance in full.
Reform the patent system
PatentPatent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
s should be encouraging and rewarding inventors, not an artificial impediment of free competition. In industries where this is impossible, patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
s should be abolished.
The orientation of Government to free and open technology
Citizens have the right to communicate with the state, using the Open StandardsOpen standard
An open standard is a standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it, and may also have various properties of how it was designed . There is no single definition and interpretations vary with usage....
, Network Protocols , open formats
Open format
An open file format is a published specification for storing digital data, usually maintained by a standards organization, which can therefore be used and implemented by anyone. For example, an open format can be implementable by both proprietary and free and open source software, using the typical...
and files using completely Free software programs
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
.
All the results of intellectual activity of the authorities, including laws, regulations and standards should have the status of public domain
Public domain
Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
and be available for free inspection and copying.
Privacy
The authorities shall require only that the citizen information they need to perform their duties. Claims must be substantiated and may be appealed in court.Gathering information about the citizen is permissible only by court order and only to persons reasonably suspected of committing crimes.