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Entertainment Software Association Suggests Using ACTA To
Force Canadian DMCA
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| The US-EU Working Group on IPR Enforcement is holding a
| meeting in Washington today and Canada has apparently been a
| regular topic of discussion.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4410/196/
Clarington school boards face huge photocopying bill
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| Local school boards face unexpected six-figure retroactive
| bills, after a decision by the Copyright Board of Canada.
|
| For the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board, the
| retroactive bill amounts to $392,563. The Peterborough
| Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District
| School Board was hit with a bill for $157,499.
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http://newsdurhamregion.com/news/education/article/136324
They should move to open content like MIT's. The kids should not be
left behind when it comes to mere /knowledge/ because they are not affluent.
Judges tosses Pooh copyright claims against Disney
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| A U.S. judge in Los Angeles dismissed remaining claims by the
| estate of long-time Winnie the Pooh licensee Stephen Slesinger
| against the Walt Disney Co in a copyright infringement case,
| court documents showed on Monday.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSTRE58S08G20090929
Recent:
Unconstitutional aspects of ACTA
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| The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement exceeds the European
| Union competence. National Constitutional Courts may invalidate aspects of
| ACTA.
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http://action.ffii.org/acta/unconstitutional-aspects
White House: ACTA still âsecret in the interest of national defense or foreign
policyâ
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| On Thursday, July 30, 2009, the White House office of the United States Trade
| Representative denied release of 4 new proposals for text that were
| circulated in July to âall countriesâ in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement (ACTA) negotiations. The request was limited to documents that were
| prepared in the past 90 days for purpose of discussion at the July 2009 ACTA
| negotiating meeting held in Morocco.
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http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/07/31/whitehouse-denies-foia-acta/
The Basis for Micropatronage
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| The idea that a publication retains value that creates an obligation upon the
| recipient to repay is an epiphenomenon of copyright. This is the peculiar
| idea that the maker or recipient of a copy of a published work extracts value
| from it which must be repaid to its copyright holder (or million dollar fines
| are liable).
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http://www.digitalproductions.co.uk/index.php?id=203
EFF sues Obama administration for promised access to secret copyright treaty
documents
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| Rebecca from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "The U.S. government is
| still blocking the release of information about a secret intellectual
| property trade agreement with broad implications for privacy and innovation
| around the world, despite the Obama administration's promises to run a more
| open government. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) could
| establish far-reaching customs regulations over Internet traffic in the guise
| of anti-counterfeiting measures, but no one knows for sure the state of this
| pact, as the government is hiding the details. EFF is calling on the feds to
| change their minds, and will keep fighting this in court."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/06/eff-sues-obama-admin.html
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
Call the Obama administration and ask for your copy of ACTA now!
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| The Obama administration wants to be called about the status of negotiations
| of ACTA. Call the Obama administration and ask for your copy of ACTA now!
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-144960/call-the-obama-administration-and-ask-for-your-copy-of-acta-now
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