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Three German organizations have issued the Frankfurter Mahnung: Ohne geistiges Eigentum keine Informationsgesellschaft [Frankfurt Reminder: Without intellectual property no information society], May 14, 2007. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) Primarily it calls for strong copyright protection, reiterating the argument that authors need it as an incentive for their creativity. The second to last sentence opposes any obligation to provide OA to copyrighted works. Because the full-text is a DOC file, I can't link to a machine translation. The Reminder was issued by the Verband deutscher Schriftsteller (Federation of German Writers), P.E.N.-Zentrums Deutschland (P.E.N.-Center Germany), and the Börsenvereins des Deutschen Buchhandels (Association of German Booksellers). Comments.
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