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Concerns Raised About Anti-Counterfeiting Trade AgreementConcerns Raised About Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) "...raises serious concerns about citizens' civil liberties and privacy rights..."
"The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is withholding hundreds of documents about a secret intellectual property enforcement treaty currently under negotiation between the U.S. and more than a dozen other countries.In a pending federal lawsuit, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge are demanding that background documents on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) be released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). But the USTR has claimed that more than 1300 pages should be withheld because they implicate national security or expose the USTR's deliberative processes. The USTR has released only 159 pages for public viewing.
ACTA raises serious concerns about citizens' civil liberties and privacy rights. The contents and text of ACTA remain secret, but a document leaked to the public last year shows that ACTA could include stronger criminal measures, increased customs border search powers, and requirements for Internet service providers to cooperate with copyright holders.
Some public suggestions from content companies have included requiring ISPs to engage in filtering of their customers' Internet communications for potentially copyright-infringing material, mandatory disclosure of personal information about alleged copyright infringers, and adoption of 'Three Strikes' policies requiring ISPs to automatically terminate customers' Internet access upon a repeat allegation of copyright infringement."
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Source: Government Blocks Release of Documents on Secret IP
Enforcement Treaty Despite Obama's Order for Openness, Americans Still Kept in the Dark About ACTA (Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jan. 29, 2009) http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/01/29 "ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being negotiated by the US, the EU, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand. The stated goal of the agreement is the international enforcement of strong intellectual property rights through increased cooperation and coordination among international governmental agencies."
Source: Public Knowledge
http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/acta Watch:
YouTube - ScottPearceEsq: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act
ACTA - This treaty is being negotiated in secret. It will further erode privacy rights. The government will have access to private information without a warrant or probable cause. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSmvIay-hj4 Why Copyright? Canadian Voices on Copyright Law
YouTube: FairCopyright4Canada http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTFEwXi1Pnk Past News:
"The U.S. is a leading proponent of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)"
Read:
WikiLeaks: Proposed US ACTA multi-lateral intellectual property trade agreement ('07)
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Proposed_US_ACTA_multi-lateral_intellectual_property_trade_agreement_(2007) Source:
Will ACTA Mean the Establishment of the International IP Police?
(Scott & Scott Business and Technology Law, 08/18/2008) http://blawg.scottandscottllp.com/businessandtechnologylaw/2008/06/will_acta_mean_the_establishme.html "...documents detailing [ Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ] ACTA's plans would not need to be leaked online if the process was open and transparent."
—Dr. Michael Geist, law professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada
He holds the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law Visit:
Michael Geist's Blog
http://www.michaelgeist.ca Source:
Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers
By Vito Pilieci (Canada.com, Canwest News Service May 26, 2008) http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=ae997868-220b-4dae-bf4f-47f6fc96ce5e&p=1 Research:
Why We Must React to ACTA By Glyn Moody
(Linux Journal, July 24, 2008) http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/why-we-must-react-acta The Problem with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
(and what to do about it) By Aaron Shaw (Knowledge Ecology Studies, Vol 2 ('08)
http://kestudies.org/ojs/index.php/kes/article/view/34/59 Copyright Enforcement Revisited By Adam Thierer
(Cato Institute - TechKnowledge no. 92, Nov. 4, 2004) http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/041104-tk.html On Drawing Lines in Copyright Law By Adam Thierer
(Cato Institute - TechKnowledge no. 75, Mar. 5, 2004) http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/040305-tk.html Cato Institute: Telecom, Internet and
Information Policy - Intellectual Property http://www.cato.org/tech/intproperty.html knowledgerush: Agreement on Trade-Related
Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights http://knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Agreement_on_Trade-Related_Aspects_of_Intellectual_Property_Rights Wikipedia: Criticism of intellectual property
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_intellectual_property Updates:
ComputerWeeking: Counterfeiting Trade
http://www.computerweekly.com/Home/tags/counterfeiting-trade.htm iptegrity.com Monica Horten
Political Battle for Online Content in European Union http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php Legislating IP (an intellectual property law blog)
Tech Law Advisor - information concerning copyright in Congress/United States http://techlawadvisor.com/induce Death of Democracy... Martial Law in the USA?Death of Democracy... Martial Law in the USA?
Biblioteca Pléyades: The Death of Democracy... Martial law in the USA?
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_martiallawusa.htm Biblioteca Pléyades |
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