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Petition: ACTA 'threatens' Public Interests
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| About 650 people, including 11 members of
| the European Union Parliament and about 90
| intellectual property (IP) professors, have
| signed a document saying an international
| IP enforcement agreement being negotiated
| by the U.S. and 36 other countries
| "threatens numerous public interests."
|
| The document, released by American
| University's Program on Information Justice
| and Intellectual Property Wednesday, raises
| a wide range of concerns about the proposed
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA),
| which was negotiated in secret for more
| than two years before the countries
| involved released a copy of the text in
| April.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/199723/petition_acta_threatens_public_interests.html?tk=rss_news
ACTA: International âthree strikesâ, surveillance and worse
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| Tensions over ACTA are rising as the next
| round of negotiations are about to take
| place, in Switzerland next week.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/acta-international-three-strikes-surveillance-and-worse
Leaked ACTA document reveals push for criminal sanctions
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| A leaked document published by French
| advocacy group La Quadrature du Net shows
| that European Union member states are
| pushing for criminal sanctions to be added
| to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
| (ACTA) on copyright infringement.
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20100624/ttc-leaked-acta-document-reveals-push-fo-6315470.html
EU secretly pushing to put kids in jail for sharing music: ACTA leak
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| More leaks from behind the scenes at the
| secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement negotiations: the EU is pushing
| for criminal sanctions for non-commercial
| copyright infringement. That means putting
| kids in jail for trading music with one
| another.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/24/eu-secretly-pushing.html
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.
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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.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5076/125/
India Gearing Up To Fight ACTA; Seeking Other, Like-Minded, Countries
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| 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?
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100601/0354539639.shtml
EU Legal Review Says ACTA Negotiators Broke The Law In Not Revealing Text To EU Parliament
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| 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.
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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.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/197121/us_copyright_official_discounts_acta_concerns.html
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