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Some critical notes on ACTA strategy
http://www.tacd-ip.org/blog/2010/06/17/some-critical-notes-on-acta-strategy/
Agenda For Round Nine of ACTA Talks Posted
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| The agenda for the ninth round of ACTA
| talks scheduled for Lucerne, Switzerland
| from June 28 - July 1st. All the major
| issues - civil enforcement, criminal
| provisions, Internet issues, and border
| measures - are on the agenda. The agenda
| includes two elements that suggest
| considerable progress has been made. First,
| the morning of the first day is devoted to a
| report on "intersessional work." This
| confirms rumours that there have been
| considerable negotiations (and progress)
| since New Zealand. Second, the
| international cooperation chapter makes the
| agenda for the first time.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5131/125/
FSF Starts Anti-ACTA Campaign
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| My presentation will not be a very technical
| one but instead will be an analysis of where
| we are and where we are going. I will start
| by speaking of the economic and political
| context in which ACTA is being discussed.
| Then, I will give an overview of elements of
| EU IP enforcement legislation that is
| related to the ACTA text and that is at the
| centre of EU legislative debate. Finally,
| and most importantly, I will reflect upon
| the movement critical of ACTA and similar
| measures of IP enforcement the strategic
| options, coalition building, contradictions,
| strongpoints and pitfalls.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/17/1547216/FSF-Starts-Anti-ACTA-Campaign
linkspam of ACTA today
http://www.coffee.geek.nz/linkspam-acta-today.html
Worried about ACTA impact on patent law
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| My concern about ACTA is not related to
| copyright law but to its effect on patents.
| Copyright law is practically always
| infringed by intent, while patent
| infringement in the field of software is in
| most cases inadvertent (that's the most
| fundamental problem I have with software
| patents). It would be desirable to introduce
| into patent law, at least in connection with
| software, an independent invention defense.
| However, ACTA in the version I saw might do
| quite the opposite, treating a patent
| infringer as a "pirate" once he is made
| aware of an infringement (for an example, by
| a cease-and-desist letter). That's
| unreasonable and unjust in my view.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1689618&cid=32603518
Software freetards demand axing of ACTA
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/17/fsf_acta/
Stallman and FSF start anti-ACTA campaign
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| Richard Stallman and the Free Software
| Federation have issued a call to arms for
| the free software movement to mobilise
| against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement (ACTA) currently being negotiated.
|
| In an extended posting on the FSF web site
| Stallman [pictured] called on people around
| the world to sign a declaration calling for
| severe limits on the powers being proposed
| in ACTA, or better yet the scrapping of the
| entire treaty currently being hammered out
| by politicians and industry.
|
| âThose politicians serve the big music and
| movie companies,â he wrote.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/215643,stallman-and-fsf-start-anti-acta-campaign.aspx
Free Software Foundation calls for ACTA fight
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| In a statement, the Free Software Foundation
| (FSF) said that the Anti-Counterfeiting
| Trade Agreement (ACTA) treaty is designed to
| attack the rights of computer users in some
| 40-odd countries.
|
| "ACTA threatens, in a disguised way, to
| punish Internet users with disconnection if
| they are accused of sharing, and requires
| countries to prohibit software that can
| break DRM," the FSF statement said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1686298/free-software-foundation-calls-acta-fight
Recent:
FSF says: Take a stand with us for freedom, against ACTA
http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-says-take-a-stand-with-us-for-freedom-against-acta
Support a firm, simple declaration against ACTA
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| # ACTA must respect sharing and
| cooperation: it must do nothing that would
| hinder the unremunerated noncommercial
| making, copying, giving, lending, owning,
| using, transporting, importing or
| exporting of any objects or works.
|
| # ACTA must not weasel about what is
| commercial: no labeling of any
| noncommercial activities as somehow
| commercial-like or treating them as if
| they were commercial.
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http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/acta-declaration
Red Letter Day for ACTA in EU: Let's Use It
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/06/red-letter-day-for-acta-in-eu-lets-use.html
ACTA restricts developing economies, India tells WTO
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| A secret trade agreement designed to
| harmonise some countries' intellectual
| property laws could destabilise existing
| international agreements and harm the
| economic prospects of developing
| countries, India has said.
|
| The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
| (ACTA) is a secret IP treaty being
| negotiated by the US, Japan, the European
| Commission and others outside of the
| normal international trade bodies the
| World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the
| World Intellectual Property Organisation
| (WIPO).
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/15/acta_wto/
WTO Report on TRIPS Council and ACTA
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| The World Trade Organization has posted
| further information on last week's Council
| meeting where India, China, and other
| developing countries raised concerns with
| the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5121/125/
WD12 on ACTA: 150 signatures to go, time to call!
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| Only two weeks of plenary in Strasbourg are
| left for Members of the European Parliament
| (MEPs) to have a chance to sign Written
| Declaration 12 (WD12) on ACTA. 150 signatures
| are still missing, mostly from Germany, United
| Kingdom, Italy, and Poland. Every EU citizen
| is encouraged to call Strasbourg offices of
| non-signatories MEPs until thursday, 12:00, to
| urge them to sign WD12.
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/wd12-on-acta-150-signatures-to-go-time-to-call
FFII backs Parliament Written Declaration 12-2010 on ACTA
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| The European Parliament Written Declaration
| 12/2010 led by MEPs FranÃoise Castex, Zuzana
| RoithovÃ, Alexander Alvaro, Stavros
| Lambrinidis receives backing from the
| Foundation of a Free Information
| Infrastructure (FFII), a European group for
| public education and consumer protection in
| the digital environment.
|
| The FFII analysed the current Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) draft
| and found many unintended consequences. For
| instance, sanctions against unauthorized "file
| sharing" in the digital environment would also
| stifle common electronic software distribution
| methods of operating systems and essential
| security updates. So far the Commission has
| not delivered an 'impact assessment' for these
| potential regulatory side effects.
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https://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/FFII%20backs%20Parliament%20Written%20Declaration%2012-2010%20on%20ACTA
Eastern Europe â land of digital freedom?
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| Now, the Baltic sea neighbors Finland and
| Estonia have declared Internet access to be a
| legal right. So Iâve been wonderingâ What are
| the chances of Southeast European countries,
| for once, not being late to the show but
| actually leading the race? What do I mean by
| that? First of all, Croatia and its neighbours
| would be wise to take advantage of the
| situation. While the UK, for example, is being
| mired down with a disastrous âDigital Economy
| Actâ, perhaps our country and maybe even our
| neighbors could go the other way.
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http://extweeme.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/eastern-europe-land-of-digital-freedom/
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