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Positive outcome reached at WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement
while ACTA looms in the East
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| The three day meeting of the WIPO ACE
| concluded on a positive note with the
| Committee requesting the WIPO Secretariat
| to ramp up its work on undertaking an "an
| empirical assessment of the nature and
| extent of intellectual infringements" given
| the paucity of reliable data detailing the
| value of "international trade in IPRs-
| infringing goods".
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http://keionline.org/node/681
NZ should not sign international piracy agreement
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| This comment comes after the anti-
| counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA)
| returned to the drawing board last week in
| Seoul, to further discuss how to implement
| and police global copyright and counterfeit
| matters, and to sign an international
| treaty.
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http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/nz-should-not-sign-international-piracy-agreement-114686
http://www.chamberpost.com/2009/11/enhanced-efforts-at-transparency-on-acta.html
"The U.S. Chamber is unequivocally supportive of transparency and has been
satisfied with the steps USTR has taken to make the ACTA negotiation
process transparent."
What???
from the comments
"The Obama Administration promised transparency, yet here you are defending
secrecy because that is how it has always been done.
"I am appalled by your organization's support of ACTA and the secrecy around
proposed ACTA terms. With this week's leak of the proposed ACTA terms, your
administrations claims of "national security" are obviously unfounded. The
American People believe you are lying because you have sold them out to international
special interest who wish to oppress people all over the world over commercial
transgressions. There is no evidence that the egregious enforcement of
copyright law against individual citizens will make people buy more
product. Losses due to piracy are imagined. Reports sighting estimates
of losses are completely fabricated, and the studies are paid by the
industries that would benefit by these fabricated numbers."
âMost Importantâ Biodiversity Access/Benefit Meeting
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| The UN Convention on Biological Diversity
| is this week undertaking what it said could
| be the most important negotiation in its
| history. The CBD is negotiating details of
| a fair and equitable access and benefit
| sharing (ABS) regime â in particular, the
| use of traditional knowledge as related to
| genetic resources and capacity building and
| compliance issues, a press release said
| yesterday.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/11/09/most-important-biodiversity-accessbenefit-meeting-this-week/
Recent:
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
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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