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Let's Act on ACTA Before it's Too Late
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| That is, the US isn't even sharing with
| its ACTA partners the âbasically
| finalisedâ draft of the Internet chapter.
| Why? Because of âinternal consultationsâ
| with âa number of private stakeholdersâ,
| who are essentially calling the shots â or
| at least, some of them: the scare quotes
| around the word âfreedomâ makes plain the
| attitude of the ACTA crowd to people who
| dare to stand up for Internet end users'
| rights in opposition to the commercial
| interests of the copyright crowd. The only
| ones that really count are representatives
| from the media industries, who are among
| the very few being granted access to ACTA
| documents, and being allowed to influence
| their drafting.
|
| The real reason these discussions are
| being held in secret is not âsecurityâ but
| because the outcry over them would be much
| greater were the proposals out in the
| open. It's a blatant attempt to slip
| hugely-damaging clauses into the treaty
| without the little people like you and me
| noticing until it's too late.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lets-act-acta-its-too-late
IFPI: If Lawsuits Aren't Working In Denmark, We'll Seize Computers To Get Evidence
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| The IFPI insists that the lawsuits won't
| stop, but just that the anti-piracy
| organization was realizing it needed more
| detailed evidence -- and this means that
| it will now start seizing computers to get
| evidence.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091109/0932206853.shtml
Recent:
Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest
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| The blogosphere is abuzz over an apparently
| leaked document showing the United States
| trying to push its controversial DMCA-style
| notice-and-takedown process on the world. But
| since Threat Level already lives in the land
| of the DMCA, or Digital Millennium Copyright
| Act, weâre more bothered by the fact that the
| U.S. proposal goes far beyond that 1998 law,
| and would require Congress to alter the DMCA
| in a manner even more hostile to consumers.
|
| At issue is the internet section of the Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being
| developed under a cloak of secrecy by dozens
| of countries. The leaked document is a three-
| page European Commission memo written by an
| unnamed EU official, which purports to
| summarizes a private briefing given in
| September by U.S. trade officials.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/policy-laundering/
The ACTA Internet provisions: DMCA goes worldwide
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| New details about the Internet section of the
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
| have leaked, and critics are already claiming
| that they mandate "three strikes" policies
| and will put an end to Flickr and YouTube.
| The reality is less sensational but just as
| important: ACTA is really about taking the
| DMCA global.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/the-acta-internet-provisions-dmca-goes-worldwide.ars
Europe only goes half-way in protecting Internet rights.
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| "Despite its lack of clarity and ambition,
| this text does provide legal ammunition to
| continue the fight against restrictions of
| Internet access. The agreed text does not
| meet the challenge of clearly preserving a
| fundamental right of access to the Net.
| Threats to Internet Freedom still loom, with
| the intense lobbying of the entertainment
| industries to push the ACTA treaty, which
| endangers Net neutrality and seeks to impose
| the liability of the technical
| intermediaries." concludes JÃrÃmie
| Zimmemrmann, co-founder of the citizen
| advocacy group La Quadrature du Net.
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/Europe-only-goes-half-way-in-protecting-internet-rights
No ACTA from the Swedish Presidency for me
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| The General Secretariat has weighed my
| âinterest in being informed of progress in
| this area against the general interest that
| progress be made in an area that is still
| the subject of negotiationsââ âAs there is
| no evidence suggesting an overriding public
| interest to warrant disclosure of the
| document in question, the General
| Secretariat has concluded that protection
| of the decision-making process outweighs
| the public interest in disclosure.â
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/no-acta-from-the-swedish-presidency-for-me/
WIPO Boss: ACTA Should be Open, Transparent
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| If even the head of WIPO is saying ACTA
| needs to be drawn up as part of an open,
| transparent process, isn't it time for the
| relevant governments to listen?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/11/wipo-boss-acta-should-be-open.html
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-
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