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ConDems Wonât Repeal UKâs Digital Economy Act
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| All those angry digital liberties
| campaigners? They shouldnât get their
| hopes up too much about the Digital
| Economy Act under a new governmentâ
|
| âWeâre not going to repeal it,â the new UK
| governmentâs Conservative culture
| secretary Jeremy Hunt told paidContent:UK.
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-condems-wont-repeat-uks-digital-economy-act/
BCS EGM
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| The British Computer Society is in the
| process of being transformed into The
| Chartered Institute of IT. This is the
| wrong direction â itâs becoming a club for
| the Pointy Haired Boss instead of an
| association to support Dilbert and Alice.
| The consequence? Itâs full of talk of
| outsourcing real computer jobs abroad and
| wants to serve the people who are doing
| it. It failed to take any public
| leadership position over the Digital
| Economy Bill and rejects attempts to
| embrace open source. It has no connection
| to the interests of actual computer
| professionals any more. For me (a Fellow,
| for now) it has come to symbolise all
| thatâs worst in British IT.
|
| [...]
|
| Thanks for the reply, David. The BCS did
| indeed show up a little in the DeBill
| debate, but it was not in the way most of
| the computer professionals I know would
| want.
|
| The BCS appears to support 3-
| strikes/graduated response kangaroo-
| courts-without-the-court, according to
| [...]
| fallacy that âthe creative industriesâ
| need defending from the internet (rather
| than recognising the benefits of adapting
| to it). BCS concerns I have read are
| rarely about fundamental liberties or
| software freedom; they are about the cost
| of implementing the legislation.
|
| From my vantage point as a branch
| committee member, I see none of the
| vitality I would want from my professional
| association; just PHB-speak and core
| governance that gives lip-service to
| inclusion of technologists. The bCS voice
| [...]
| Maybe the BCS doesnât need people like me
| as Fellows? That seems to be the message
| Iâm hearing.
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http://webmink.com/2010/05/26/links-for-2010-05-26/
UK regulator plans a taste of ACTA for small ISPs
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| Ofcom's proposal to exclude small ISPs
| from the Digital Economy Act 3-strikes
| measures is not quite what it seems. One
| interpretation is very interesting in the
| context of the online service provider
| âpolicy' provision in ACTA.
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http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=535&Itemid=9
Recent:
Obama Reiterates Support For ACTA, As More People Point Out How Far ACTA Is From The Purpose Of Copyright
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| A few months back, President Obama
| publicly stood behind ACTA despite tons
| of concerns about it from the public.
| It's disappointing that as more and more
| concerns and problems with ACTA have been
| highlighted, Obama has not reconsidered.
| He still seems to be taking the position
| that "more copyright must be good, and
| ACTA therefore is good." That's a naive
| position. The group Open ACTA points us
| to a statement made by Obama in Mexico,
| concerning better trade relations with
| Mexico, where he again insists that ACTA
| is a key part of better trade
| relations...
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100519/1615029494.shtml
Joint Statement from President Barack Obama and President Felipe CalderÃn
http://www.articleant.com/gen/79818-joint-statement-from-president-barack-obama-and-president-felipe.html
Newspaper Edits Politicians Out Of Bill Signing Photograph; Doesn't Get Why People Think That's Bad
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| Romenesko points us to a story of a West
| Virginia newspaper that photoshopped
| three politicians out of a bill signing
| photo that ran with a story about the
| bill.
|
| [...]
|
| This is a newspaper that won't run photos
| of candidates running for election? It
| makes you wonder how they report on those
| elections. With illustrations? And then
| to claim that it's okay to edit a
| photograph by then calling it a "photo
| illustration" rather than a photo that's
| been edited seems a bit questionable no
| matter where you stand on the question of
| journalistic ethics.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100520/0245249507.shtml
Help sign the Written Declaration 12/2010 about ACTA
http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Help_sign_the_Written_Declaration_12/2010_about_ACTA
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: Impact on Individuals and Intermediaries
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| The Australian Digital Alliance has
| released Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement: Impact on Individuals and
| Intermediaries.
|
| Here's an excerpt:
|
| ACTA might have a negative impact on
| individuals as Internet citizens and
| as consumers of digital technologies
| because some of its requirements go
| beyond Australian law. ACTA will
| facilitate excessive damages payouts
| by mandating the controversial 'lost
| sale analysis' for the assessment of
| damages and encouraging punitive
| style statutory damages that set
| arbitrary amounts for infringement.
| ACTA will also broaden the scope of
| commercial scale infringement to
| criminalise purely private acts that
| occur in the homes of some
| Australians, and will create a new
| criminal offence for 'camcording'.
| ACTA may strengthen existing
| procedures to lock up copyright
| material and prevent Australians from
| accessing or using it in certain
| legitimate ways.
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http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2010/05/19/anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement-impact-on-individuals-and-intermediaries/
A Chance to Act on ACTA - Now
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| Despite all the excitement over the
| Digital Economy Act and minor things like
| general elections, the great ACTA machine
| is still grinding away in the background,
| slouching towards Bethlehem to be born.
|
| But there's hope: the European Parliament
| has shown itself unhappy with the way the
| process is being conducted, in secret,
| and without any kind of democratic
| oversight.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2968
Written Declaration 12 on ACTA: halfway there, participation still needed!
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| 185 signatures already, 184 left for an
| absolute majority! The Written Declaration
| 12 (WD12) on the ACTA agreement is still
| open for signatures from Members of the
| European Parliament (MEPs); it is now
| halfway completed. By setting red lines to
| the EU negotiators, it addresses key
| issues of the right to a fair trial and
| liability of Internet service providers.
| This week is a plenary week in Strasbourg,
| where MEPs will have an occasion to sign
| it. Who are the signatories so far? Who
| should be contacted in order to get to 369
| signatories?
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/written-declaration-12-on-acta-halfway-there-participation-still-needed
Ofcom cooks up a 3-strikes fudge - industry to do it themselves
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| Ofcom proposes to leave it to industry to decide
| how the Digital Economy Act will operate. It will
| leave gaps in the Initial Obligations Code for industry to
| fill. Given that Ofcom has a mammoth Â142 million budget,
| should we excuse this lack of attention to the public interest?
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http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=532&Itemid=9
Ofcom #DEAct Code of Practice limited to ISPs with 400,000 subs & excludes mobile broadband
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| ISPA Secretariat met with Campbell Cowie and Chris Rowsell
| from Ofcom this afternoon to discuss the ongoing work surrounding
| the DE Act.
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http://www.trefor.net/2010/05/17/ofcom-deact-code-of-practice-limited-to-isps-with-400000-subs-excludes-mobile-broadband/
ACTA Draft Release Was Apparently A One Time Deal: Now We're Back To Secrecy
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| After about a year or so of very public
| questions over the incredible level of
| secrecy of ACTA (including the patently
| ridiculous claim that details couldn't be
| revealed for national security reasons),
| including a complete smackdown by the EU
| Parliament concerning the whole ACTA
| process, the negotiators finally (and very
| reluctantly) released the latest draft in
| April. Of course, by then, the full
| document had already leaked. Still, the
| officially released document left out some
| of the key parts that were in the leaked
| draft. Funny how that works.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100512/1326489398.shtml
Will Nick Clegg push to repeal the Digital Economy Act?
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| For ORG supporters, there is a lot that we
| can hope for from the new administration.
|
| * We can hopefully assume that talk of
| a repeal of the Human Rights Act is
| now shelved.
| * ID cards and their database should be
| scrapped
| * The DNA database should be restricted
| or scrapped
| * Promises of a Data Freedom Act are
| welcome
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/will-nick-clegg-push-to-repeal-the-digital-economy-act
EC's ACTA Negotiator Devigne: Rejected U.S. "Blackmail"
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| Luc Devigne, the European Commission's lead
| ACTA negotiator, recently appeared before
| the International Trade Committee which
| brought together Members of the European
| Parliament and ACTA negotiators. Sources
| say Devigne revealed several key things:
|
| * the release of the draft ACTA text
| may be a one-time deal. There are no
| current plans to release the updated
| text following future rounds of talks.
| * Devigne reportedly told the MEPs that
| the EC successfully rejected U.S.
| "blackmail", a reference to U.S.
| demands for changes on the scope of
| ACTA in return for greater
| transparency.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5029/125/
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