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More ACTA Details Leak: It's An Entertainment Industry Wishlist
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| The latest round of "negotiations" over the
| ACTA treaty continue in secret due to as yet
| unexplained national security reasons
| (despite the fact that the entertainment
| industry lobbyists have had full access to
| the document) are kicking off in Korea. Once
| again is becoming clear that the claims by
| US trade reps that ACTA did not represent
| any kind of major change in copyright law,
| and thus didn't require public scrutiny, are
| nothing more than a myth. Despite ridiculous
| efforts to keep the document secret (some
| countries were given only physical,
| watermarked, copies of the latest drafts),
| some of the details are leaking out and it's
| not pretty at all.
|
| The plan is modeled on the ridiculously
| misnamed "free trade agreement" between the
| US and South Korea from a few years back.
| It's misnamed because it wasn't about free
| trade at all, but massive protectionism for
| the American entertainment industry.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091103/1308526784.shtml
The ACTA Internet Chapter: Putting the Pieces Together
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| The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
| negotations continue in a few hours as
| Seoul, Korea plays host to the latest round
| of talks. The governments have posted the
| meeting agenda, which unsurprisingly focuses
| on the issue of Internet enforcement [UPDATE
| 11/4: Post on discussions for day two of
| ACTA talks, including the criminal
| enforcement provisions]. The United States
| has drafted the chapter under enormous
| secrecy, with selected groups granted access
| under strict non-disclosure agreements and
| other countries (including Canada) given
| physical, watermarked copies designed to
| guard against leaks.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/
Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA
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| Negotiations on the highly controversial
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement start in
| a few hours in Seoul, South Korea. This
| weekâs closed negotiations will focus on
| âenforcement in the digital environment.â
| Negotiators will be discussing the Internet
| provisions drafted by the US government. No
| text has been officially released but as
| Professor Michael Geist and IDG are
| reporting, leaks have surfaced. The leaks
| confirm everything that we feared about the
| secret ACTA negotiations. The Internet
| provisions have nothing to do with
| addressing counterfeit products, but are all
| about imposing a set of copyright industry
| demands on the global Internet, including
| obligations on ISPs to adopt Three Strikes
| Internet disconnection policies, and a
| global expansion of DMCA-style TPM laws.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/leaked-acta-internet-provisions-three-strikes-and-
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
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| The internet chapter of the Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret
| copyright treaty whose text Obama's
| administration refused to disclose due to
| "national security" concerns, has leaked.
| It's bad. It says:
|
| * * That ISPs have to proactively police
| copyright on user-contributed material.
| This means that it will be impossible to
| run a service like Flickr or YouTube or
| Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to
| ensure that the mountain of material
| uploaded every second isn't infringing
| will exceed any hope of profitability.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html
Australian Radio Program On 'Piracy' What 60 Minutes Should Have Done
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| The report goes in-depth in other areas as
| well, including a discussion on fair
| use/fair dealing, the history of copyright
| (and how it's often been abused in the name
| of artists, when it really had nothing to do
| with them) and the importance of
| mashup/remix culture. It's the sort of
| report that a program like 60 Minutes could
| have -- and should have -- done, but did
| not. Kudos to ABC radio down in Australia.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091103/0303386776.shtml
MPAA Tells The FCC: If We Don't Stop Piracy, The Internet Will Die
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| Never let it be said that the folks in
| Hollywood aren't good at coming up with a
| totally fictional horror story. I just have
| a problem when they use it not to entertain,
| but to create a moral panic to push the
| government to pass laws in their favor.
|
| [...]
|
| And, of course, it pushes for kicking file
| sharers off the internet (it hides this by
| calling it "graduated response," of course,
| rather than the more common term "three
| strikes"). The filing also goes on about how
| the MPAA is just so sure that ISPs can stamp
| out piracy, and because of that, it thinks
| the government should force them to get on
| it.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091103/0434486780.shtml
Recent:
White House shares the ACTA Internet text with 42 Washington insiders,
under non disclosure agreements
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| Table 1: USTR says these people signed a
| Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) to see the
| U.S. proposed Internet text for ACTA
| Name Firm Date
| Emery Simon Business Software
| Alliance (BSA) 08/11/09`
| Jesse Feder Business Software
| Alliance (BSA) 08/11/09
| Bill Patry Google 08/11/09
| Daphne Keller Google 08/11/09
| Johanna Shelton Google 08/11/09
| Lisa Pearlman Wilmer Hale | 08/11/09
| Robert Novick Wilmer Hale | 08/11/09
| Bob Kruger Consultant to eBay
|
| [...]
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http://keionline.org/node/660
ACTA Negotiations Back On... White House Shows Small Group Proposed Text Under NDA
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091013/1854546514.shtml
Obama Stands Behind âState Secretsâ in Spy Case
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| The Obama administration said Wednesday that it
| would maintain President George W. Bushâs state
| secrets position when it came to lawsuits leftover
| from that administration.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/obama-stands-behind-state-secrets-in-spy-case/
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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