Pirates protest the disposal of City Hall furniture
The furniture, Cassini replicas are being collected at the City Hall and will soon be disposed of. Photo from the Pirate website
Members of the Pirate party will be protesting the disposal of furniture from the City Hall today by standing next to it. The furniture was recently discovered to be a replica of Cassini, a brand of italian furniture. Due to copyright laws the items, bought twenty years ago by the City of Reykjavík, have to be discarded. "A classic case of how our society today works. Copyright laws prevent furniture being put to good use and instead it has to be discarded."
Furniture label Cassini made a demand on the City of Reykjavik that the furniture should be disposed of which means that none of the material can be made use of, a fact that the Pirates specifically mention.
The Pirate party stress the reform of copyright and patent laws on their political agenda.
