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Consumer groups around the world demand transparency on secret copyright treaty
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| Glyn sez, "The Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement [ed: a secret, non-UN
| treaty that rich countries are cooking up that will criminalize copyright
| infringement, sending non-commercial file-sharers to prison; authorize border
| guards to search your hard-drive and personal electronics for copyright
| infringements; and require governments to give media giants the power to
| decide who should and shouldn't have Internet access, without having to prove
| anything in a court of law] has been making its way in secret for some time,
| a coalition of consumer groups have now demanded that the text of the
| directive be made public..."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/23/consumer-groups-arou.html
South Africa Considers Potentially Requiring Patents On Publicly Funded
Research
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| I missed this story from a few weeks ago, but one of our readers, going by
| the name of bikey, alerts us to a proposal in South Africa, that would
| potentially require patents on certain publicly funded research. While this
| seems totally backwards for any number of reasons (and many of us believe
| that publicly funded research should be available to the public since they
| paid for it), apparently some are concerned that "foreign multinationals"
| might "misappropriate" the research.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090625/0316045359.shtml
Recent:
TACD Fights ACTA on "IPRs"
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| One of the frustrating aspects about the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement
| (ACTA) is that it is a cosy club of rich and powerful nations plus a few of
| their equally rich and powerful chums in select industry. Meanwhile, hoi
| polloi - that's you and me - don't get a look in, even though we are the most
| affected.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/tacd-fights-acta-on-iprs.html
The ACTA draft treaty is covering patent infringement
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| Wikileaks has published some drafts of the secret ACTA treaty, which aims to
| give better guns to Patent Trolls. The draft mentions that it covers all the
| rights covered by TRIPS, so it will cover also patents.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-147082/the-acta-draft-treaty-is-covering-patent-infringement
Goodbye WIPO, Hello ACTA?
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| What is really remarkable about this is that Greve can even be asking WIPO to
| consider free software and open standards: a few years ago, such a thing
| would have amounted to blasphemy.
| Sadly, there is another sign that WIPO is becoming more accommodating to the
| ideas behind free software: the fact that there seems to be a move to come
| up with an alternative forum for promoting intellectual monopolies where it
| will not be so easy to participate.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2101&blogid=14
New ACTA copyright treaty dodges the UN, poor countries and activists
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| Michael Geist sez, "The World Intellectual Property Organization may be best
| known for the Internet treaties that led to the DMCA, but in recent years
| groups like EFF, KEI, and Public Knowledge has helped to open things up and
| move toward a Development Agenda that better balances international
| intellectual property policy. That progress may be threatened by the
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which officials now acknowledge is
| designed to exclude WIPO, developing countries, and NGOs."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/14/new-acta-copyright-t.html
Leaked ACTA Draft: More Power to the RIAA
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| A recent draft of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
| (ACTA) surfaced on Wikileaks this weekend. Among other things, the draft aims
| to strengthen the power and rights of the entertainment industry and other
| copyright holders, by letting them choose how they want to be compensated for
| copyright infringements.
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http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-acta-draft-more-power-to-the-riaa-090414/
Classified US, Japan and EU ACTA trade agreement drafts, 2009
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| The file presents US, Japan and EU drafts of the controversial international
| copyright and patent trade agreement, ACTA ("Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement"). The documents were obtained by Wikileaks staff.
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http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Classified_US%2C_Japan_and_EU_ACTA_trade_agreement_drafts%2C_2009
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