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US Copyright Official Discounts ACTA Concerns
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| U.S. copyright official Steven Tepp said
| Tuesday he doesn't understand many of the
| current objections to the proposed Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a 37-
| nation effort to enforce copyright and
| counterfeit laws across international
| borders.
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| Tepp, senior counsel for policy and
| international affairs at the U.S. Copyright
| Office, dismissed objections to ACTA voiced
| by representatives of the Consumer
| Electronics Association (CEA) and Knowledge
| Ecology International (KEI), an
| intellectual-property research and advocacy
| group, during a debate on the trade
| agreement at the Future of Music Coalition's
| Washington, D.C., policy forum.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/197121/us_copyright_official_discounts_acta_concerns.html
US Copyright Official Pretends That Concerns About ACTA Are Unfounded; Mocks Legitimate Concerns
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| The session kicks off with U.S. Copyright
| Office official Steven Tepp defending ACTA,
| by saying right from the outset, "Quite
| candidly, we're in the midst of a worldwide
| epidemic of copyright piracy." What kind of
| epidemic? Well, he uses that old line about
| how organized crime groups and terrorists
| are being funded by copyright infringement
| -- a claim that the industry keeps making,
| but which makes little sense. Even if it
| were true that some crime operations are
| selling bootleg DVDs and such, aren't they
| under the same, if not more, pressure from
| unauthorized internet file sharing?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100527/0120329597.shtml
U.S. Copyright Official Challenges ACTA Criticism
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| U.S. Copyright Office official Steven Tepp
| appeared at a Future of Music Coalition
| debate on ACTA yesterday, arguing that the
| release of the ACTA text proved the prior
| concerns wrong. The full debate is available
| online as Tepp offers gruff responses to
| fellow panel members, but refuses to answer
| many other questions on the grounds that the
| USTR leads on the file.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5062/196/
European Parliament Members Follow-Up With WTO on ACTA
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5061/196/
Tell Your Lawmakers: "Anti-Counterfeiting" Treaty Is a Sham
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| ACTA is being negotiated by a handful of
| countries behind closed doors and is on
| track to be finished by the end of this
| year. Despite its potentially far-reaching
| impact for consumers and the future of the
| open Internet, the U.S. Trade Representative
| has claimed that it can shut out
| Congressional oversight by treating ACTA as
| a "sole executive agreement" under the
| President's executive power, rather than a
| treaty.
|
| We can't sit back and let this fake "anti-
| counterfeiting" agreement become law! If
| your congressional representative is on one
| of the committees below that has oversight
| over the U.S. Trade Representative, tell
| your lawmaker not to be fooled by this
| chicanery and demand that ACTA be limited to
| addressing international counterfeiting.
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https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=451
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
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