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Net downloads cause ‘millions of lost jobs’
I remember when it was all Aeron chairs around here… A study for the international chamber of commerce reckons 2.7 million jobs have been lost since 2004 in Europe because of unlicensed internet downloads, and warns economic losses could treble to €32bn by 2015. The report is backed by trade unions, including the TUC.…
Continue reading »Pirate Bay blocking row silenced in Norway
Copyright holders lick wounds The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and a pro-copyright group have given up their fight to get telecoms outfit Telenor to block access to The Pirate Bay in Norway.… ?
Continue reading »Euro Parliament threatens court action over ACTA secrecy
Demands to be kept in the loop The European Parliament has threatened to take the European Commission to the EU’s highest court if it does not disclose the details of a secret international copyright treaty.…
Continue reading »USTR on ACTA: “Not Seeking P2P Penalties Beyond US Law”
US Trade Representative Ron Kirk responds to written questions from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), telling him that “we are not seeking any obligations that go beyond US law concerning termination of repeat infringers, monitoring of online behavior, or expeditious receipt by copyright holders of information concerning alleged infringers.” US Trade Representative Ron Kirk has responded to questions from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) regarding the highly controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in a letter recently published on the USTR’s site for public viewing. Senator Wyden, chair of the Senate Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness, had asked Kirk for details on variety of copyright infringement proposals currently being discussed. Specifically, he asked what sort of “legal incentives” he’s seeking to encourage ISPs to cooperate with copyright holders to deter illegal file-sharing.
Continue reading »New ACTA leak shows major resistance to US-style DRM rules
The leaks keep coming for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). A new leak from Europe has revealed the inner workings of the negotiating process through a 40+ page document showing each country’s positions on key provisions of the treaty. While most of the negotiating is quite technical, what stands out most sharply is the international resistance to the US-drafted proposals on DRM “anticircumvention” rules.
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