ARTICLE 1, a Creative Commons Attribution image from art makes me smile's photostream.

Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing writes that Javier “Barrapunto” Candeira writes that “Last Monday the Spanish Government sent the parliament the latest draft for the Ley de Economia Sostenible (Sustainable Economy Act), which contained riders modifying the current laws on copyright and interactive services. These amendments give the Spanish Ministy of Culture the administrative power to take down websites (or order ISPs to block those hosted overseas), all without a court order and in the name of ‘safeguarding Intellectual Property Laws against Internet Piracy’. For this reason some of us have written a manifesto that is being published today all over Spanish weblogs and media.”

It sounds very similar to the Digital Economy Bill being considered by the House of Lords today in the UK, which is aimed at killing free, open WiFi in the name of corporate media corporations attempts to keep you from using content you buy as you wish.

It’s being transmitted all over the Web: manifiesto en defensa de los derechos fundamentales en internet

Translated from the Spanish: Read the rest of this entry…