Lex Karpela is a nickname for the bill HE 2004/28 to amend Finnish Copyright Act and Criminal Code which the country's parliament accepted in a voting on 5 October 2005. The nickname was first publicly suggested by a reporter of the Digitoday news website. The nickname is based on the last name of Tanja Karpela, Finland's Minister of Culture. The Eduskunta in Finnish, or the Riksdag in Swedish, is the Parliament of Finland. ... Jump to: navigation, search October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tanja Tellervo Karpela (b. ...

The bill received much resistence because of the various problems found in it. In particular, the article that criminalizes some types of speech about circumventing technical protection measures (ie. DRM) was seen as unconstitutional and compromising the freedom of speech. However, many members of parliament found it best to vote for passing the bill because there was EU directive to be implemented, and Finland was already behind schedule. Many saw it best to pass faulty legislation to avoid sanctions from the EU and fix the law later on. The Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, commonly known as the EU Copyright Directive or short EUCD, is the European Unions implementation of the...

According to an estimate by the police, roughly 400 people participated in a demonstration against passing the bill on the afternoon of 4 October 2005. Jump to: navigation, search October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Digitoday's reports on the processing of the bill (in Finnish)
• the bill HE 2004/28