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 BambiCNI rated 6 months ago - From the page: "In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a treaty-making process to create a new global standard for intellectual property rights enforcement, which was called, in a piece of brilliant marketing, the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (the agreemen... more
- Tags: internet, agreements, ip, laws, acta, intellectual-property
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- chimichurri rated 6 months agointernet
- From the page: "In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a treaty-making process to create a new global standard for intellectual property rights enforcement, which was called, in a piece of brilliant marketing, the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (the agreement does not cover currency fraud)."
 justinlg rated 6 months ago- aww hell naw
- erithbabalon rated 6 months agointernet, p2p, peer-to-peer, ip
- Essential reading: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - an international draft treaty has been drawn up, in secret, during closed-door meetings where entertainment industry giants get to give marching orders to governments in private.
Amongst other things, ACTA will outlaw P2P (even when used to share works that are legally available) and crack down on things like region-free DVD players. All of this is taking place out of the public eye.
And where, exactly, does free speech and right to privacy come into all of this?
- BambiCNI rated 6 months agointernet, agreements, laws, ip, intellectual-property
- From the page: "In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a treaty-making process to create a new global standard for intellectual property rights enforcement, which was called, in a piece of brilliant marketing, the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (the agreement does not cover currency fraud).
ACTA is spearheaded by the United States along with the European Commission, Japan, and Switzerland â€" which have large intellectual property industrial. Other countries invited to participate in ACTA's negotiation process are Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New Zealand. Noticeably absent from ACTA's negotiations are leaders from developing countries who hold national policy priorities that differ from the international intellectual property industry.
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The US is negotiating ACTA through the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), an office within the Bush Administration that has concluded more than 10 "free trade" agreements in recent years, all of which require both the US and the other country to increase intellectual property rights enforcement measures beyond the international legal norms in the WTO-TRIPS Agreement. "
Anyone else see where this is so overreaching it could be absolutely devastating to regular citizens?
This will be as bad if not worse than the DMCA. Unbelievable!
- smebro rated 6 months agointernet
- Emailed my Prime Minister about this one.
- sYLVANIAbIZARRO rated 6 months agointernet
- Is there a group of people out there who just sit around all day trying to come up with ways to ruin things for everyone?
- bradadad rated 6 months agointernet
- Our "representatives" are worthless.
- anticompany rated 6 months agoactivism, business, liberties, law, internet
- n 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a treaty-making process to create a new global standard for intellectual property rights enforcement, which was called, in a piece of brilliant marketing, the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (the agreement does not cover currency fraud).
- online-ethics rated 6 months agointernet
- play hard with ipr
- Snubbelkalle rated 6 months agointernet, politics, acta
- From the page: "The document details provisions of a proposed plurilateral trade agreement that would impose strict enforcement of intellectual property rights related to Internet activity and trade in information-based goods. If adopted, a treaty of this form would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime imposing new cooperation requirements upon internet service providers, including perfunctory disclosure of customer information, as well as measures restricting the use of online privacy tools."
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