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[News] ACTA Harms the World; Digital Economy Bill Uses Paedophiles

  • Subject: [News] ACTA Harms the World; Digital Economy Bill Uses Paedophiles
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:14:23 +0100
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ACTA may hamper fight against climate change

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| The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement 
| (ACTA) may hamper the fight against 
| climate change by inhibiting the diffusion 
| of green technology, according to the 
| Foundation for a Free Information 
| Infrastructure (FFII).
| 
| Behind closed doors, the European Union, 
| United States, Japan and other trade 
| partners are negotiating an Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA will 
| contain new international norms for the 
| enforcement of copyrights, trade mark 
| rights, patents and other exclusive 
| rights. 
`----

http://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/ACTA%20may%20hamper%20fight%20against%20climate%20change

Paedo-Fear Pushes The Surveillance Agenda

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| For instance, only a huge effort from 
| concerned people prevented Europe from 
| adopting software patents under the 
| pressure of lobbying from big self-
| interested software companies. And only 
| continued vigilance will prevent those big 
| companies from wearing down resistance.
| 
| In the UK a big campaign against the 
| excessive measures of the Digital Economy 
| Act has had some effect in tempering the 
| eventual implementation as prpoposed by 
| Ofcom, but it didnât kill it, because in 
| the end most elected representatives 
| simply donât get it, and let it pass in 
| the rush before the end of the 
| parliamentary session.
`----

http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/comment/paedo-fear-pushes-the-surveillance-agenda-7518


Recent:

India vows to sabotage ACTA

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| Fed up with the controversial Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), India
| hopes to whip up an anti-ACTA chutney so
| spicy that negotiators have no choice but to
| purge every trace of the loathed agreement
| from their systems.
|
| Though countries like Morocco are involved,
| rich countries have driven the ACTA process.
| The World Trade Organizationâignored. The
| World Intellectual Property Organizationâ
| bypassed. Instead of using the very fora that
| they played such a role in establishing,
| countries like the US, EU, Canada, Japan, and
| Australia formed a coalition of the willing.
| ACTA has been negotiated in secret, though
| the recently released negotiating draft text
| envisions a permanent secretariat that will
| receive new members.
`----

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/india-vows-to-sabotage-acta.ars


India Seeking Allies To Oppose ACTA

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| With the next round of Anti-Counterfeiting
| Trade Agreement negotiations scheduled for
| later this month in Lucerne, Switzerland
| (governments have been painfully slow this
| round in confirming dates, location, and
| agenda), the global politics behind the
| agreement escalated over the weekend with
| Indian officials acknowledging that they plan
| to establish a coalition of government
| opposed to the agreement.  Reports indicate
| that a major concern involves the possible
| seizure of goods in transit, which raises
| access to medicines fears with the potential
| detention of generic pharmaceuticals.
`----

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5076/125/


India Gearing Up To Fight ACTA; Seeking Other, Like-Minded, Countries

,----[ Quote ]
| But, of course, according to various folks at
| the USTR and the Copyright Office, now that
| ACTA's been released, it's proven that all
| the "fears" from online sources were
| misguided. Right?
`----

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100601/0354539639.shtml


EU Legal Review Says ACTA Negotiators Broke The Law In Not Revealing Text To EU Parliament

,----[ Quote ]
| While ACTA has now been released, the review
| still happened. Hephaestus points us to the
| news that the analysis found that negotiators
| were not allowed to keep the document secret
| (pdf) from Parliament, and that if it had
| continued to the Parliament could have taken
| legal action. The key points:
|
|     * Confidentiality cannot be used as a
|     justification for not complying with the
|     obligation to keep Parliament fully
|     informed. Where a degree of
|     confidentiality is justified to ensure
|     the proper conduct of negotiations, the
|     Council and Commission may request that
|     agreed measure on the confidentiality of
|     the documents be applied.
|     * The obligation to inform Parliament
|     cannot be modified or limited by any
|     agreement among the institutions or by an
|     arrangement with third parties which does
|     not involve Parliament. Where documents
|     originate from a third party, the Union
|     negotiator may be justified in agreeing
|     not to disclose such information without
|     the consent of the third party concerned.
|     In such circumstances, Parliament should
|     nonetheless be provided with sufficient
|     information.
|     * In the case of a persistent refusal to
|     provide it with sufficient information,
|     Parliament could initiate proceedings for
|     illegal failure to act.
`----

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100601/1014129647.shtml


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.
|
| 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.
`----

http://www.pcworld.com/article/197121/us_copyright_official_discounts_acta_concerns.html
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