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Developing Country Opposition to ACTA Mounts
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| Just as the G8-G20 meetings conclude in
| Muskoka and Toronto, another round of
| negotiations on the controversial Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement resumes in
| Switzerland today. In the aftermath of the
| last round of discussions in New Zealand, a
| draft version of the ACTA text was publicly
| released, temporarily quieting criticism
| about the lack of transparency associated
| with an agreement that currently touches on
| all forms of intellectual property,
| including patents, trademark, and
| copyright.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5155/135/
Analysis: Why Silicon Valley should fear ACTA
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| A group of intellectual property experts
| have warned that search engines, web hosts
| and e-commerce sites will be stripped of
| protections if the proposed draft of the
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
| is endorsed.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/218275,analysis-why-silicon-valley-should-fear-acta.aspx
ACTA negotiators don't care about the Internet
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| La Quadrature du Net, along with access to
| medication NGOs, met in Luzern with 20
| negotiators of the Anti-Counterfeiting
| Trade Agreement (ACTA). No answer was given
| regarding the concern that ACTA would
| hinder fundamental freedoms online, by
| turning Internet operators into a private
| copyright police. More disturbingly,
| negotiators showed a profound lack of
| understanding and competence, close to
| disdain, regarding Internet and the digital
| environment.
|
| [...]
|
| "The profound disdain of the ACTA
| negotiators, and their blatant lack of
| knowledge of Internet and the realities of
| the digital environment, show how flawed
| the whole process is. With ACTA, unelected
| public officials will force private actors
| into censoring the Internet in the name of
| copyright. Citizens worldwide must react by
| holding their government accountable."
| concludes JÃrÃmie Zimmermann, spokesperson
| for citizen advocacy group La Quadrature du
| Net.
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-negotiators-dont-care-about-the-internet
ACTA Negotiators Respond To Questions About ACTA; More Of The Same
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| Rather than admitting how secret and closed
| off the negotiations have been, the
| negotiators are just passing the blame, by
| saying it's not their issue to actually
| engage representatives from civil rights
| groups and civil societies. Besides, the
| response is again off-base. If the whole
| point of meeting with these groups is to
| understand the concerns of them and their
| constituents, it should be the negotiators
| who are seeking out such meetings. Once
| again, this response makes it clear that
| the negotiators' marching orders are not to
| come up with the best solution for each of
| the societies and countries they represent,
| but of a very narrow group of special
| interests. This is no surprise, but the
| answer basically confirms that they know
| this. Very sad.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100629/10381810004.shtml
Recent:
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
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