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European Parliament gives the US a lesson on freedom
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| EUROCRATS who have been negotiating a
| secret treaty with the US that would
| trample on human rights to keep the music
| and film cartels happy have been sent a
| rocket by the European Parliament.
|
| MEPs have voted in overwhelming numbers
| against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement (ACTA) that was being negotiated
| by EU Commissioners. By 633 votes in
| favour, 13 against, and with 16
| abstentions, the MEP's also threatened to
| take them to the European Court for their
| trouble.
|
| The secret treaty would turn Europe into an
| entertainment industries' dream region.
| ISPs would become police for the music and
| film industries and would have to switch
| off whoever they suspect of filesharing
| that infringes copyrights.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1596040/european-parliament-us-lesson-freedom
Obama Reiterates Support For Finishing ACTA
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| President Obama Thursday reiterated his
| administration's commitment to enacting the
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, aimed
| at curbing global piracy, despite a vote by
| the European Parliament this week calling
| for greater transparency in the deal's
| negotiations.
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http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/03/obama-reiterates-support-for-f.php
Obama: We Must Move Forward On ACTA
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| What was telling, however, was how he
| described ACTA -- which is that he used the
| bogus arguments for what people think ACTA
| is about, rather than what's actually in
| the agreement. It's a political trick:
|
| "There's nothing wrong with other
| people using our technologies, we
| welcome it -- we just want to make sure
| that it's licensed, and that American
| businesses are getting paid
| appropriately," Obama said. "That's why
| [the Office of the U.S. Trade
| Representative] is using the full
| arsenal of tools available to crack
| down on practices that blatantly harm
| our businesses, and that includes
| negotiating proper protections and
| enforcing our existing agreements, and
| moving forward on new agreements,
| including the proposed Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100311/1214528523.shtml
Recent:
Obama Supports $675K File Sharing Verdict
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| The Obama administration is backing $675,000 in
| damages a Massachusetts student must pay the
| Recording Industry Association of America for
| file sharing 30 songs.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/obama-supports-filesharing-verdict/#ixzz0dBNEUgAt
Obama Names Craig Mundie to Sci-Tech Advisory Council
http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2009/04/27/obama-names-craig-mundie-to-sci-tech-advisory-council.aspx
Joe Biden promises a blank check to the entertainment cartel
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| VP Joe Biden stood up in front of a bunch of Hollywood execs and promised to
| appoint a copyright czar, and furthermore, that this would be the "right"
| person to protect their interests. I would have voted Dem in the last
| election, if I got a vote, but make no mistakes: the Dems are the party of
| stupid copyright laws.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/22/joe-biden-promises-a.html
Administration Lobbyist Ban Not Doing What It's Supposed To Do
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| We've already seen how the Justice Department is, for example, being filled
| with lawyers who regularly worked with the RIAA, MPAA and BSA -- three of the
| biggest copyright lobbying organizations, and those individuals have wasted
| no time in expressing their desire to continue pushing those industry's
| viewpoints in their new positions.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090422/0419234608.shtml
Copyright debate heats up over Obama appointments
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| The president has, in fact, filled out some high-level Justice Department
| positions with lawyers favored by the copyright industry, including attorneys
| who have represented the Recording Industry Association of America and the
| Business Software Alliance. The signatories of the April 2 letter said the
| Justice Department's intervention last month in favor of a record label in a
| file-sharing case heightens their concern.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10223549-38.html
Biden promises 'right person' as new U.S. copyright czar
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| "It's pure theft, stolen from the artists and quite frankly from the American
| people as consequence of loss of jobs and as a consequence of loss of
| income," Biden said, according to a White House pool report.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10224689-38.html
MPAA reaches out to lawmakers
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| The occasion: the second biennial summit sponsored by the industry's chief
| lobbying arm, the Motion Picture Assn. of America.
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002688.html?categoryId=18&cs=1
I got you, babe
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| Obama is whistling the music industry's tune
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http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/15/i-got-you-babe-obama-is-whistling-the-music-indust/
Obama Taps 5th RIAA Lawyer to Justice Dept.
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| President Barack Obama is tapping another RIAA attorney into the Justice
| Department.
|
| Monday's naming of Ian Gershengorn, to become the department's deputy
| assistant attorney of the Civil Division, comes more than a week after nearly
| two-dozen public interest groups, trade pacts and library coalitions urged
| the new president to quit filling his administration with lawyers plucked
| from the Recording Industry Association of America.
|
| The move makes it five RIAA lawyers Obama has appointed to the Justice
| Department.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/obama-taps-fift.html
Obama administration sides with RIAA in P2P suit
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| The Obama administration has sided with the recording industry in a copyright
| lawsuit against an alleged peer-to-peer pirate, a move that echoes arguments
| previously made by the Bush administration.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10201831-38.html
Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/obama-sides-wit.html
U.S. Sides with RIAA in Filesharing Case
http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/03/us-sides-with-riaa-in-filesharing-case.html
Obama Administration Claims Copyright Treaty Involves State Secrets?!?
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| When the Obama administration took over, there was a public stance that this
| administration was going to be more transparent -- especially with regards to
| things like Freedom of Information Act requests. The nonprofit group
| Knowledge Ecology International took that to heart and filed an FOIA request
| to get more info on ACTA. The US Trade Representative's Office responded
| denying the request, saying that the information was "classified in the
| interest of national security pursuant to Executive Order 12958." This is a
| treaty about changing copyright law, not sending missiles somewhere. To claim
| that it's a national security matter is just downright scary. As KEI points
| out, the text of the documents requested have been available to tons of
| people, including more than 30 governments around the world and lobbyists
| from the entertainment industry, pharma industry and publishing industry.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090313/1456154113.shtml
Obama names Doerr, Phillips to economic board
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| Two Silicon Valley leaders have been appointed by President Obama to a
| 16-person committee that's charged with offering economic advice during what
| has become an unusually sharp and deep recession.
|
| John Doerr, the billionaire venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield
| & Byers, is one. Doerr was involved in funding companies including Google,
| Amazon.com, Sun Microsystems, and Cypress Semiconductor; he currently serves
| on the board of companies including Amazon and Google and has recently turned
| his attention to green tech.
|
| Charles Phillips, the president of Oracle, is another. Phillips became
| president in May 2003 and previously was with Morgan Stanley's Institutional
| Securities Division. He's a Linux aficionado and said in 2005: "On demand is
| the future of software for many years to come and we are building it on
| Linux."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10158505-38.html
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