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He's Got the Law (Literally) in His Hands
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| Neither the courts, nor the lawyers, nor
| even the Liberian parliament have a
| physical copy of the country's legal code.
| That's because one man is claiming a
| copyright on the books -- and he's holding
| them hostage until he gets paid.
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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/12/hes_got_the_law_literally_in_his_hands
Japan Set To Extend Posthumous Copyright
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| Recently elected Japanese prime minister
| Yukio Hatoyama has vowed to extend
| posthumous copyright protection on
| compositions from 50 to 70 years.
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http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3if90bc32271c417b813a77b91351d9b12
Digital Economy Bill confirms copyright proposals, turns Mandelson loose
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| The government unveiled the Digital Economy
| Bill today, confirming tortuously
| complicated proposals to combat copyright
| infringement by to-ing and fro-ing between
| ISPs, rights holders, Ofcom and the courts.
| It also paved the way for business
| secretary Lord Mandelson to rewrite
| copyright law.
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http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49304340,00.htm
Why The Lack of ACTA Transparency Is Not Standard
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| In the face of widespread criticism of the
| lack of ACTA transparency, participating
| governments and music industry lobbyists
| have claimed that the transparency issue is
| much ado about nothing. As governments
| seek to keep relevant information secret,
| those same governments released a joint
| statement last week arguing that "it is
| accepted practice during trade negotiations
| among sovereign states to not share
| negotiating texts with the public at large,
| particularly at earlier stages of the
| negotiation."
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4549/125/
Another Pro-ACTA Letter from MPAA, RIAA, et al.
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| A number of movie studios, record labels,
| and other copyright-holding companies (and
| their related trade associations) have also
| written a pro-ACTA letter to Congress,
| which I first saw posted on Ben Sheffnerâs
| blog. Minus the bizarre âdistractionâ
| claim, it follows the same basic patternâ
| that ACTA will benefit IP businesses and do
| nothing harmful.
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http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2779
Entertainmnent Industry: Yes, Please Keep Negotiating Secret Copyright Treaty To Save Our Asses
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| This letter includes pretty much everyone
| who benefits from abusing copyright laws
| and is afraid of the internet:
|
| Advertising Photographers of America
| American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)
| American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
| American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
| American Society of Media Photographers, Inc. (ASMP)
| Association of American Publishers (AAP)
| Broadcast Music, Inc (BMI)
| Commercial Photographers International
| Directors Guild of America (DGA)
| Evidence Photographers International Council
| Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA)
| International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)
| Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA)
| National Music Publishers Association (NMPA)
| NBC Universal
| News Corporation
| Picture Archive Council of America (PACA)
| Professional Photographers of America (PPA)
| Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
| Reed Elsevier Inc.
| Society of Sport & Event Photographers
| Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)
| Stock Artists Alliance
| Student Photographic Society
| The Advertising Photographers of America
| The Walt Disney Company
| Time Warner, Inc.
| Universal Music Group
| Viacom Inc.
| Warner Music Group
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091120/1605477032.shtml
Recent:
Question on ACTA and the Telecoms Package
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| Here is a draft for the question:
|
| In the recently concluded conciliation
| on the Telecoms Package, it was decided
| that no measures restricting end-usersâ
| access to the internet may be taken
| unless they are appropriate,
| proportionate and necessary within a
| democratic society, and never without a
| prior fair and impartial procedure that
| includes the right to be heard and
| respects the of presumption of innocence
| and the right to privacy.
|
| Are the proposals currently being
| discussed in the Anti-Counterfeiting
| Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations
| fully in line with the provisions that
| were agreed in the conciliation on the
| Telecoms Package? If not, when and how
| will the Commission redress any
| incompatibilities of the ACTA?
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http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/question-on-acta-and-the-telecoms-package/
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
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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