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EU ACTA leak confirms global DMCA plans
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- America wants to to push laws that reach beyond WIPO net treaties and beyond current European Union law, “confirming the U.S. desire to promote a three-strikes and you’re out policy,” says Michael Geist , quoting from a leaked European Commission analysis of the ACTA Internet chapter. It also contains detailed comments on US proposals for a “Global DMCA, harmonized contributory copyright infringement rules, and the establishment of an international notice-and-takedown policy,” says Geist.
Continue reading »UN: Don’t Jail Illegal File-Sharers
Francis Gurry, director-general of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), says the solution to illegal P2P piracy isn’t “putting teenagers in jail.” Francis Gurry, director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a UN agency created in 1967 “to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world,” gave a speech at the opening of India’s 5th International Forum on Creativity and Inventions in which he stressed that jailing convicted illegal file-sharers was not the solution to piracy. “I don’t believe we are going to win this, (to) find the solution by putting teenagers in jail,” said Gurry. “I think that is not going to win public sympathy.” “Part of the battle here is to sensitize the public to the fact that there is a real issue involved.
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