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ACTA: A Global Threat to Freedoms (Open Letter)
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| A worldwide coalition of Non-Governmental
| Organizations, consumers unions and online
| service providers associations publish an
| open letter to the European institutions
| regarding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement (ACTA) currently under
| negotiation. They call on the European
| Parliament and the EU negotiators to oppose
| any provision into the multilateral
| agreement that would undermine the
| fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens
| in Europe and across the world.
|
| By December 17th, 2009, European negotiators
| will submit their position regarding the
| proposal put forward by the U.S Trade
| Representative for the Internet chapter of
| the ACTA. It is now time for the European
| Union to firmly oppose the dangerous
| measures secretly being negotiated. They
| cover not only "three strikes" schemes, but
| also include Internet service providers
| liability that would result in Internet
| filtering, and dispositions undermining
| interoperability and usability of digitial
| music and films.
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-a-global-threat-to-freedoms-open-letter
The ACTA Timeline: Tracing The Secret Copyright Treaty
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| The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is
| generating growing concern (witness today's
| release of a protest letter from civil
| liberties groups from around the world) as
| many people learn about the secret copyright
| treaty for the first time. I've posted
| video talks and interviews on ACTA, but some
| have asked for a visual timeline to trace
| its emergence. Posted below is an ACTA
| Timeline created using Dipity. I'll update
| as events warrant.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4611/125/
ALERT: Unauthorized Bow-Wow-Wow-Yippie-Yo-Yippie-Yea-ing May Result in Liability
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| The result of the collaboration between
| Clinton and the musicians holding him up is
| still "one of the most frequently sampled
| compositions of the Funk era," and the "Bow
| Wow refrain" is often licensed by itself.
| But in this case, it wasn't licensed at all.
| Universal Music Group, which owns the
| (likely much less lucrative) rights to the
| work of Public Announcement, argued that the
| allegedly infringing elements -- "the use of
| the word 'dog' in a low voice as 'musical
| punctuation,' the rhythmic panting, and the
| Bow Wow refrain" -- were not copyrightable,
| but the jury disagreed. (Those of you who
| are always wanting to get out of jury duty
| should be reminded that there are cases out
| there like this one.) It awarded $89,000 in
| damages for the unlicensed woofing.
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http://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/12/alert-unauthorized-bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeaing-may-result-in-liability.html
Recent:
Ambassador Kirk: People would be âwalking away from the
tableâ if the ACTA text is made public
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| I said that it was untrue that IPR
| negotiations are normally secret, mentioning
| as examples that drafts of the other IPR
| texts, including the proposed WIPO treaty
| for disabilities and the climate change
| agreement language on IPR, as well as
| several drafts of the FTAA text and the 1996
| WIPO copyright treaties had been public.
| Kirk said that ACTA âwas differentâ and the
| topics being negotiated in ACTA were âmore
| complex.â
|
| I brought up to Kirk that the USTR had shown
| ACTA text to dozens of corporate lobbyists
| and all of its trading partners in the ACTA
| negotiation, and the text was only secret
| from the public. Kirk did say USTR was
| discussing this issue with the White House
| and its trading partners, but that was about
| all he could say at that moment.
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http://keionline.org/node/706
Canadian Recording Industry Hit With $6 Billion Copyright Lawsuit
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| Chet Baker was a leading jazz musician in
| the 1950s, playing trumpet and providing
| vocals. Baker died in 1988, yet he is about
| to add a new claim to fame as the lead
| plaintiff in possibly the largest copyright
| infringement case in Canadian history. His
| estate, which still owns the copyright in
| more than 50 of his works, is part of a
| massive class-action lawsuit that has been
| underway for the past year.
|
| The infringer has effectively already
| admitted owing at least $50 million and the
| full claim could exceed $6 billion. If the
| dollars donât shock, the target of the
| lawsuit undoubtedly will: The defendants in
| the case are Warner Music Canada, Sony BMG
| Music Canada, EMI Music Canada, and
| Universal Music Canada, the four primary
| members of the Canadian Recording Industry
| Association.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4595/159/
French Government's Plan To Help Book Publishers Adapt: Have Them Embrace Three Strikes Plan
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091204/0029347201.shtml
MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood
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| Dan Glickman, the MPAAâs chairman, informs
| lawmakers that millions of film-related
| jobs are in peril because of internet
| piracy. Simply put, those who donât back
| the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting and Trade
| Agreement donât support intellectual
| property rights, he wrote.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/mpaa-acta-letter/
No, ACTA Secrecy Is Not 'Normal' -- Nor Is It A 'Distraction'
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| A second point they make is that if the end
| result is really bad, countries can simply
| decide not to sign it and not to
| participate. Yes, stop laughing. It's as if
| they think that we're all idiots who
| haven't seen how lobbyists have
| historically relied on the line "but we
| must live up to our international
| obligations" to push through all sorts of
| laws the public does not support.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091119/1904177017.shtml
Will secret copyright treaty restrict your digital rights?
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| Most Americans expect that their laws are
| only passed after some period of public
| debate between Republicans and Democrats or
| their news-channel proxies. However, the
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
| may be an exception to this rule, and if it
| is signed, many United States laws
| concerning the Internet and ownership of
| data may become substantively different.
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http://www.macworld.com/article/143986/2009/11/acta_treaty.html
No, ACTA Secrecy Is Not 'Normal' -- Nor Is It A 'Distraction'
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| Over the last few weeks people who are
| actually concerned about individual rights
| have done a decent job sounding the alarm
| about the problems with what little we've
| seen of the ACTA negotiations. In the last
| week or so, those who work for the
| entertainment industry have suddenly started
| scrambling to respond, after realizing that
| more and more people are starting to pay
| attention and to worry about ACTA. However,
| it's been pretty funny to watch the
| desperate attempts by industry lawyers to
| try to paint this all as much ado about
| nothing (with gratuitous swipes at those of
| us who have called attention to what's going
| on).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091119/1904177017.shtml
Stopping the ACTA Juggernaut
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| The ACTA juggernaut continues to roll ahead,
| despite public indignation about an
| agreement supposedly about counterfeiting
| that has turned into a regime for global
| Internet regulation. The Office of the
| United States Trade Representative (USTR)
| has already announced that the next round of
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
| negotiations will take place in January â
| with the aim of concluding the deal "as soon
| as possible in 2010."
|
| For the rest of us, with access to only
| leaks and whispers of what ACTA is about,
| there are many troubling questions. How can
| such a radical proposal legally be kept so
| secret from the millions of Net users and
| companies whose rights and freedoms stand to
| be affected? Who decides what becomes the
| law of the land and by what influence? Where
| is the public oversight for an agreement
| that would set the legal rules for the
| knowledge economy? And what can be done to
| fix this runaway process?
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/stopping-acta-juggernaut
USA Treaty Priorities?
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| Maybe the only explanation for the US being
| the last holdout from this worthy sounding
| treaty that even Somalia will ratify is that
| it is just too busy protecting the obsolete
| business models of the RIAA and MPAA through
| the secret ACTA treaty process and doesn't
| have enough time or resources to worry about
| lesser priorities, such as protecting
| children.
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http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2009/11/usatreaty-priorities.html
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