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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.
Continue reading »Adding up the explanations for ACTA’s "shameful secret"
Why is an intellectual property treaty being negotiated in the name of the US public kept quiet as a matter of national security and treated as “some shameful secret”? Solid information on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been hard to come by, but Google on Monday hosted a panel discussion on ACTA at its DC offices . Much of the discussion focused on transparency, and why there’s so little of it on ACTA, even from an administration that has made transparency one of its key goals.
Continue reading »BREIN chips in on ACTA
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Holland doesn’t have an RIAA or an MPAA. Instead it has BREIN, a kind of combination of the two and, “According to BREIN, the production of intellectual property contributes for 5,9% to the Dutch economy and is an important export product for The Netherlands,” says a p2pnet Reader’s Write . I’ve renamed the poster ‘Mr xxx’ because I have reason to believe the original name is a fake.
Continue reading »ACTA in Korea: ’secret talks on transparency’
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The current round of ACTA negotiations wrap up later today in Seoul, Korea. Having spent the first day focused on the now-leaked Internet provisions and the second day on the leaked criminal provisions, negotiators will spend this morning discussing whether they should make the draft treaty public. Many countries continue to face pressure on the transparency issue, with KEI posting a public letter to U.S.
Continue reading »ACLU Calls Pentagon Hacker’s Extradition ‘Tragic’
The American Civil Liberties Union came to the defense of British hacker Gary McKinnon on Thursday, decrying an extradition treaty that could soon see McKinnon standing trial in the U.S. on charges of cracking and damaging American military systems. “The recent tragic case of Gary McKinnon highlights the need to ensure that an individual’s case is properly judicially reviewed and the courts have the power to bar extradition if the interest of justice require it,” wrote ACLU executive director Anthony Romero, in a letter (.pdf) to British Foreign Secretary David Miliban.
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