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Pink Floyd Turns Tables, Screws the Record Company
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| In the classic rock tale, the young, talented
| musicians are exploited by one of two entities: the
| unscrupulous manager or the greedy record company. This week
| Pink Floyd turned the tables on the record company, winning
| a case involving a 1999 contract that stated Pink Floyd's
| albums had to be sold intact. In other words they could
| not be broken up and sold as individual songs.
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http://www.daniweb.com/news/story267299.html
Knock-offs catch on
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| China is not expected to sign ACTAâ
| undermining it before it has even been
| unveiled. Perhaps China could make a just-
| as-good fake treaty instead.
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http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15610089
Michael Geist to keynote PublicACTA - InternetNZ
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| InternetNZ is excited to announce that
| renowned Canadian law professor Michael
| Geist, a world authority on technology law
| issues, will be the keynote speaker at the
| PublicACTA event, being held in Wellington
| on 10 April 2010.
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http://blog.internetnz.net.nz/?p=310
U.S. on ACTA: Full Steam Ahead
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| The U.S. response to the European
| developments came yesterday, as President
| Obama reiterated his support for finishing
| ACTA. In comments on IP enforcement, Obama
| discussed the need to "aggressively
| protect" IP, pointing specifically to ACTA.
| The reference to ACTA was clearly meant to
| send a strong signal that the U.S. intends
| to continue its push for a treaty. Indeed,
| the U.S. has not changed its position on
| anything with respect to ACTA - it is one
| of the lone holdouts on the issue of
| transparency and its negotiating position
| on the text itself has not moved much
| through almost two years of negotiations.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4863/125/
â Actually I Do Care
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| There was an article on Boing Boing over
| the weekend that includes a leaked copy of
| an e-mail sent by Richard Mollett, head of
| BPI (thatâs the UKâs version of RIAA). He
| provides his key constituents with a round-
| up on news on the Digital Economy Bill, the
| legislative omnibus for all thatâs bad in
| ACTA and the UKâs equivalent of the DMCA.
| Apparently, Mollet believes there is no
| groundswell of opposition for the Digital
| Economy Bill and that MPs will just wave it
| through for lack of popular concern.
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http://webmink.com/2010/03/15/groundswell/
Recent:
ACTA Supporters - UKIP named and shamed
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| The result was a massive landslide in favour
| of open government and internet freedom. 636
| MEPs were on the side of freedom, and just 10
| voted in favour of ACTA.
|
| I can now name and shame those 10, people who
| were elected to represent us, but who want us
| to be governed by a secret worldwide clique
| where the RIAA call the shots and politicians
| are too scared to tell the public what they
| are signing us up to. The list in full is:
|
| * Nigel Farage (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * Marta Andreasen (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * Stuart Agnew (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * Gerard Batten (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * John Bufton (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * Trevor Colman (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * The Earl of Dartmouth (United Kingdom,
| UKIP)
| * Mike Nattrass (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * Paul Nuttall (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * Nicole Sinclaire (United Kingdom, UKIP)
|
| Just 16 politicians couldn't make their minds
| up and abstained. They include:
|
| * Diane Dodds (Northern Ireland,
| Democratic Unionist Party)
| * Nick Griffin (United Kingdom, BNP)
| * Andrew Henry William Brons (United
| Kingdom, BNP)
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http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2010/mar/10/acta-supporters-ukip-named-and-shamed/
Why Jordanians Should Be Against ACTA
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| Back in 2007, the USA, EU, Switzerland and
| Japan started the negotiations to create an
| international agreement on intellectual
| property rights, the claimed goal was to
| reduce the trade of counterfeit goods and
| pirated copyright protected works through a
| legislative framework. The agreement is now
| known as Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
| or ACTA.
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http://jordanopensource.org/blog/why-jordanians-should-be-against-acta
What's up with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement?
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| If you follow technology news services and
| blogs that are vaguely interested in digital
| rights issues, you must already have heard
| about ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement. This is a multilateral trade
| agreement between the EU, the US, Mexico,
| Canada, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand
| and a few others, currently negotiated in
| secret that is set to tackle copyright
| infringement issues. As the name indicates,
| the aim of the agreement is to tackle
| counterfeiting. However, the most
| controversial aspect is that various sources
| have disclosed that the agreement is set to
| export some of the worst maximalist
| legislation out there, particularly in an
| attempt to curb illegal file-sharing. For
| the most detailed in-depth analysis of what
| has been happening so far, Michael Geistâs
| blog is the place to be. Nonetheless, I have
| been meaning to take stock and write a
| synopsis of what has happened so far for my
| own benefit. If you are confused about the
| various claims and counter-claims, I hope
| you find this useful.
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http://www.technollama.co.uk/whats-up-with-the-anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement
Act on ACTA: Write to Your MEPs
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| One knock-on effect of that obsessive
| secrecy is that even ordinary
| parliamentarians are forbidden from seeing
| the drafts, which makes the negotiations not
| only a travesty of democracy, but also a
| more direct slap in the face of those
| politicians. Happily, the latter are
| beginning to wake up to the fact that they
| are being sidelined here, and starting to
| become more forceful in their demands for
| access to ACTA.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2816&blogid=14
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