"Pirate Party"

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Pirate Party (Swedish: Piratparti) is a name they have adopted political parties in different countries. Pirate Parties have as basic principles the defence of citizens' rights, direct and participatory democracy (with the exception of the Pirates' Party of Greece who rejected direct democracy at a conference in 2013), transparency, change of the legal framework concerning intellectual rights and commercial patents, free dissemination of knowledge (Free content), privacy protection as well as the preservation of users' rights on the Internet.

Background
The first Pirate Party was founded in Sweden, in January 2006 by Rickard Falvinke. The party's name comes from the Piratbyrån ("Experimental Office"), an organization created to support people who oppose intellectual property ideas. Members of Piratbyrån had previously established the file exchange website “The Pirate Bay”. Piratbyrån is the Swedish part of the Danish-based PiratGruppen organization, so named as a reaction to the AntiPiratGruppen organization. Consequently, the term "piracy" previously used by the music and film industry in campaigns against copyright infringement is a re-awarement of the term.
In 2006 he took part in the General election in Sweden gathering 0.63% (the third largest for parties outside parliament). He also took part in the 2009 European elections, bringing together 7.1%, electing a MEP.

The example of the creation of the Pirate Party followed a number of countries around the world, proving that Pirate Party positions find response to citizens regardless of the country they live in.
In October 2006 the International Pirate Party, which is the international organisation of parties, is founded, members of which are the National Pirate Parties.

On 18 September 2011, the "Berlin Pirates' Party" (German: Piratenpartei Berlin) gathered 8.9% in the local elections of Berlin's "city-state".

In April 2012, polls featured the "Piratenpartei Deutschland Pirate Party" (German: Piratenpartei Deutschland) as a third party, with a percentage exceeding 13%.

The Uppsala Declaration
The International Pirate Party conference in Uppsala (Sweden) was held in 2009.
The European Pirate Party agreed to a joint declaration of their goals for the 2009 European elections.
The most important points of the declaration are:
Change of the Intellectual Property Act, except for non-commercial use from its application. Reduction of copyright time, abolition of Digital Copyright techniques at every level of hardware or software.
Change of the law on patents, with particular emphasis on technologies and methods related to life (home