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Pirate Parties International
(
PPI
) is an
international
non-profit
and
non-governmental organization
with headquarters in
Brussels
,
Belgium
.
[1]
Formed in 2010, it serves as a worldwide organization for
Pirate Parties
, currently representing 39 members from 36 countries across
Europe
, the
Americas
,
Asia
,
Africa
and
Australasia
. The
Pirate Parties
are political incarnations of the
freedom of expression
movement, trying to achieve their goals by the means of the established
political system
rather than just through
activism
. In 2017, PPI had been granted special
consultative status
to the
United Nations Economic and Social Council
.
[2]
Aims
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The PPI statutes
[3]
give its purposes as:
to help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain communication and co-operation between pirate parties around the world.
The PPI advocate on the international level for the promotion of the goals. Its members share such as protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the digital age, consumer and authors rights-oriented reform of copyright and related rights, support of information privacy, transparency, and free access to information.
The name "Pirates" itself is a reappropriation of the title that was given to internet users by the representatives of the music and film industry and does not refer to any illegal activity.
History
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The first Pirate Party was the Swedish
Piratpartiet
, founded on 1 January 2006.
Other parties and groups were formed in
Austria
,
Canada
,
Denmark
,
Finland
,
Germany
,
Ireland
,
the Netherlands
,
Poland
, and
Spain
. In 2007, representatives of these parties met in
Vienna
,
Austria
to form an alliance and plan for the
2009 European Parliament elections
.
[4]
Further conferences were held in 2008 in
Berlin
and
Uppsala
, the latter leading to the "Uppsala Declaration" of a basic platform for the elections.
[5]
In 2009, the original Pirate Party won 7.1% of the vote
[6]
in Sweden's
European Parliament
elections and won two of Sweden's twenty
MEP
seats, inspired by a surge in membership following the trial and conviction of three members of the ideologically aligned
Pirate Bay
a year earlier.
[7]
On 18 April 2010, the Pirate Parties International was formally founded in Brussels at the PPI Conference from April 16 to 18.
[1]
Uppsala Declaration
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At the 2009 conference of Pirate Parties International in
Uppsala
(Sweden), European Pirate parties agreed on a common declaration of the parties' goals for the upcoming
election of the European Parliament
.
[8]
[9]
Central issues of the declaration are:
- reform of
copyright
, exemption of non-commercial activity from copyright regulation, reduction of the duration of copyright protections; banning of
DRM
technologies, opposition to media or hardware levies;
- reform of
patent law
, particularly stating that patents on life (including patents on seeds and genes) and
software
should not be allowed;
- strengthening civil rights, transparent government, speedy and fair trial,
freedom of speech
, and expansion of the right to anonymity in communication.
Prague Declaration
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At the conference of Pirate Parties International in
Prague
(Czech Republic) in 2012, European Pirate parties agreed to run in the elections to the European Parliament in the year 2014 with a common program as well as establish a
European political party
(
European Pirate Party
, PPEU). The declaration
[10]
has been followed by conferences in
Potsdam
and
Barcelona
to work on the structure of the legal body to come and the statutes for it.
Member Parties
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As of July 2 2022, PPI has the following 31
[11]
Ordinary members with the voting power of 28 (parties sharing territory split the vote among themselves):
Africa
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- Pirate Party of Tunisia
Asia and the Pacific
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- Pirate Party of New Zealand
(1/2 vote; vote shared with IP New Zealand)
- Internet Party New Zealand
(1/2 vote; vote shared with PP New Zealand)
Americas
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- Pirate Party of Brazil
- Pirate Party of Chile
- United States Pirate Party
- Pirate Party of Venezuela
Europe
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- Pirate Party of Belgium
- Pirate Party of Catalonia
- Czech Pirate Party
- Estonian Pirate Party
- Pirate Party of France
- Pirate Party Germany
- Pirate Party of Greece
- Pirate Party of Hungary
- Pirate Party of Israel
- Italian Pirate Party
- Pirate Party Luxembourg
- Pirate Party of Netherlands
- Pirate Party of Norway
- Polish Pirate Party
- Portuguese Pirate Party
- Pirate Party of Russia
- Pirate Party of Serbia
- Pirate Party of Slovakia
(1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia)
- Pirate Party - Slovakia
(1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia)
- Pirate Party Switzerland
- Pirate Party of Turkey (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Turkey)
- Pirate Party Turkey
(1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Turkey)
- Ukrainian Pirate Community
Resignations
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In February 2015,
Pirate Party Australia
resigned from PPI due to serious disagreement with the direction and management of the organization.
[12]
In the same month,
Pirate Party UK
also resigned
[13]
and in March the
Belgian Pirate Party
suspended its membership within PPI.
[14]
On 20 April 2015, the
Pirate Party of Iceland
voted overwhelmingly to leave PPI.
[15]
A member of the executive, Arnaldur Sigurðarson, reported a 96.56% vote in favor of leaving, adding: "PPI has been pretty much useless when it comes to its objectives which should be to encourage international cooperation between Pirate Parties."
In May 2015, the
Pirate Party of Sweden
resolved with a significant majority to leave PPI, canceling their observer status.
[16]
In July 2016, the
Pirate Party of Canada
officially withdrew from Pirate Parties International citing ongoing troubles with the organization as well as a failure to adequately provide any accomplishments over its history.
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citation needed
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In 2022, the
Pirate Party of Austria
withdrew from the Pirate Parties International.
[17]
In December 2023, Florie Marie resigned from her role as chairperson of the Pirate Parties International after less than one year.
[18]
Structure
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The PPI is governed by a board, formerly led by two co-chairs,
[19]
and since the Warsaw conference of 2015 by a chair and a vice-chair. Policy, governance, and applications for membership are the responsibility of the PPI General Assembly which must convene at least once per year.
[20]
By the current rules, board members are elected for a two-year term, half of the board being elected every year. Since the 2019 General Assembly, the Board has 9 members (previously 7). General Secretary and Treasurer positions are filled by the board by its members.
PPI Board
No.
|
Term
|
Co-Chairs (chair & vice-chair from 2015 onwards)
|
General Secretary
|
Treasurer
|
Member of the board
|
Alternates
|
1st Board
|
IV/2010
III/2011
|
Gregory Engels
,
Jerry Weyer
|
Joachim Monch
|
Nicolas Sahlqvist
|
Aleksandar Blagojevic,
Jakub Michalek
,
Bogomil Shopov
|
?
|
2nd Board
|
III/2011
IV/2012
|
Samir Allioui
,
Marcel Kolaja
(receded)
|
Lola Voronina
|
Pat Machler
|
Finlay Archibald
(receded)
,
Paul da Silva
(receded)
,
Thomas Gaul
|
?
|
3rd Board
|
IV/2012
IV/2013
|
Gregory Engels,
Lola Voronina
|
Travis McCrea
|
Ed Geraghty
|
Nuno Cardoso
,
Jelena Jovanovi?,
Denis Simonet
|
Brendan Molloy,
Thomas Gaul,
Alessandra Minoni,
Andrew Norton
(receded)
|
4th Board
|
IV/2013
IV/2014
|
Gregory Engels,
Vojt?ch Pikal
|
Thomas Gaul
|
Marc Tholl
|
Nuno Cardoso,
Azat Gabrakhmanov,
Denis Simonet
|
Jelena Jovanovi?,
Paul Bossu
,
Radosław Pietro?,
Yasin Aydın
|
5th Board
|
IV/2014
VII/2015
|
Ma?a ?orak
,
Koen de Voegt
|
Thomas Gaul
|
Sebastian Krone
|
Gregory Engels,
Anders Kleppe,
Stathis Leivaditis
|
Marco Confalonieri,
Yasin Aydın,
Min Chiaki,
Chemseddine Ben Jemaa
|
6th Board
|
VII/2015
VII/2016
|
Andrew Reitemeyer
(chair)
Patrick Schiffer
(vice-chair)
|
Henrique Peer
|
Karla Medrano
|
Min Chiaki,
Chemseddine Ben Jemaa,
Dr. Richard Hill,
|
Anders Kleppe,
Nikolay Voronov,
Koen De Voegt,
Gregory Engels
|
7th Board
|
VII/2016
XI/2017
|
Guillaume Saouli
(chair)
Bailey Lamon
(vice-chair)
|
Thomas Gaul
|
Keith L. Goldstein
|
Andrew Reitemeyer,
Raymond Johansen,
Koen De Voegt
|
Nikolay Voronov,
Patrick Schiffer,
Adam Wolf,
Gregory Engels
|
8th Board
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XI/2017
XI/2018
|
Guillaume Saouli (chair)
Bailey Lamon (vice-chair)
|
Keith L. Goldstein
|
Thomas Gaul
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Koen De Voegt,
Raymond Johansen,
Nikolay Voronov
|
Adam Wolf,
Etienne Evellin,
Daniel Dantas Prazeres,
Gregory Engels
|
9th Board
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XI/2018
XII/2019
|
Guillaume Saouli (chair)
Bailey Lamon (vice-chair)
|
Keith L. Goldstein
|
Michal Gill
|
Etienne Evellin,
Raymond Johansen,
Ladislav Koubek
|
Daniel Dantas Prazeres,
Gregory Engels,
Kitty Hundal,
Cedric Levieux
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10th Board
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XII/2019
XII/2020
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Bailey Lamon (chair)
Gregory Engels (vice-chair)
|
Keith L. Goldstein
|
Daniel Dantas Prazeres
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Cedric Levieux,
Thomas Gaul,
Michal Gill,
Linda B. Tørklep,
Giuseppe Calandra
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Sebastian Krone,
Carlos Polo,
Svein Mork Dahl,
Cristina Diana Bargu
[21]
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11th Board
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XII/2020
I/2022
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Bailey Lamon (chair)
Gregory Engels (vice-chair)
|
Michal Gill
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Sebastian Krone
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Keith L. Goldstein,
Carlos Polo,
Manuel Caicedo,
Dario Castane,
Daniel Dantas Prazeres
|
Svein Mork Dahl,
Thomas Gaul,
Ji Yong Dijkhuis
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12th Board
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since
I/2022
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Bailey Lamon (chair)
Gregory Engels (vice-chair)
|
Michal Gill
|
Sebastian Krone
|
Keith L. Goldstein,
Carlos Polo,
Manuel Caicedo,
Dario Castane,
Alexander Isavnin,
Mauricio Vargas
|
Ji Yong Dijkhuis
Veronika Murzynova
Adam Wolf
Sebastian Krone
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13th Board
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since I/2023
|
Florie Marie (chair)
Gregory Engels (vice-chair)
|
TBD
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TBD
|
Keith L. Goldstein
Michael Toledo
Bailey Lamon
Michal Gill
Julian Haffner
Alexander Isavnin
Mauricio Vargas
|
Mia Utz
Adam Wolf
Sebastian Krone
Raman Ojha
Carlos Polo
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All board meetings are recorded and the minutes are published here:
https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Board/Board_Meetings
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PPI Conferences
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International Pirate Party Meetings
Name
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Date of Meeting
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Location
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Host Party
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International Conference 2007
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8-10/6/2007
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Vienna
, Austria
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International Conference 1/2008
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26-27/1/2008
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Berlin
, Germany
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International Conference 2/2008
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27-29/6/2008
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Uppsala
, Sweden
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PPI Conference 2010 (Founding Conference)
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16-18/4/2010
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Brussels
, Belgium
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Pirate Party Belgium
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PPI Conference 2011
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12-13/3/2011
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Friedrichshafen
, Germany
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Pirate Party Germany
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PPI Conference 2012
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14-15/4/2012
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Prague
, Czech Republic
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Czech Pirate Party
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Pirate Summer Conference
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9-10/6/2012
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Aarau
, Switzerland
|
Pirate Party Aargau
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PPI Conference 2013
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20-21/4/2013
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Kazan
, Russia
|
Pirate Party of Russia
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PPI Conference 2014
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12-13/4/2014
|
Paris
, France, on
OpenSpace Conference
|
Pirate Party of France
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PPI Conference 2015
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4-5/7/2015
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Warsaw, Poland, on
OpenSpace Conference
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Pirate Party of Poland
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PPI Conference 2016
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23-24/7/2016
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Berlin
, Germany
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Pirate Party of Berlin
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PPI Conference 2017
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25-23/11/2017
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Geneva
, Switzerland
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Pirate Party of Switzerland
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PPI Conference 2018
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3-4/11/2018, online continuation on 10/11/2018
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Munich
, Germany
|
Pirate Party Germany
,
Pirate Party Bavaria
|
PPI Conference 2019
|
7-8/12/2019
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online
|
By video conference only
|
PPI Conference 2020 (w/out board election)
|
30/5/2020
|
online
|
By video conference only
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PPI General Assembly 2020
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6/12/2020
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online
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By video conference only
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PPI General Assembly 2021 (w/out board election)
|
3/7/2021
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online
|
By video conference only
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PPI General Assembly 2022
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8/1/2022
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online
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By video conference only
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PPI General Assembly 2022 (w/out board election)
|
2/7/2022
|
online
|
By video conference only
|
PPI General Assembly
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28/1/2023
|
online
|
By video conference only
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