Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
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- Europeans: finally a chance to ask your reps to oppose ACTA
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European MEPs from Greece, the Czech Republic and Germany have submitted a declaration opposing ACTA, the secret copyright treaty that is the first piece of global Internet law to be negotiated in private, without participation from poor countries, the ...
feed item - whytewolf - 03/04/2010 - 23:27 - 0 comments
- Danish activists demand to know why their governments block ACTA transparency
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Last week, a leaked Dutch memo on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a secret copyright treaty, identified the countries whose negotiators were opposed to bringing transparency to the negotiation process. The ...
feed item - whytewolf - 03/02/2010 - 07:33 - 0 comments
- U.S., Korea, Singapore, Denmark, Germany, Belgium And Portugal: Against ACTA Transparency
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One of the biggest issues in discussing ACTA is the rampant secrecy behind the negotiations. We've heard calls from many different politicians to get rid of the secrecy and be more transparent, but we hadn't heard who was against the transparency ...
feed item - whytewolf - 02/25/2010 - 14:39 - 0 comments
- ACTA leak: Now we know who is against transparency - USA, Korea, Singapore, Denmark
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Michael Geist sez, "Throughout the debate over ACTA [ed: a secret, unprecedented copyright treaty that the public isn't able to see or participate in] transparency, many countries have taken public positions that they support release of the actual text, ...
feed item - whytewolf - 02/25/2010 - 08:15 - 0 comments
- EU Data Protection czar comes out against ACTA; EU analysis of leaked ACTA chapter
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The European Digital Rights Initiative has put together an extensive FAQ on last night's leaked text from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA, the secret copyright treaty whose seventh round of negotiations just concluded in Mexico). It's an ...
feed item - whytewolf - 02/22/2010 - 08:13 - 0 comments
- ACTA leak shows US Trade Rep lied about "3-strikes"
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Michael Geist sez, "Your earlier post did a great job of highlighting the latest ACTA [ed: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret and unprecedented global copyright treaty] leak. I've just posted on the implications for the three key ...
feed item - whytewolf - 02/21/2010 - 23:07 - 0 comments
- Copyright Kremlinology: understanding the secret copyright treaty
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My latest Internet Evolution column, "Copyright Undercover: ACTA & the Web," talks about the absurd tea-leaf-reading exercise that we have to engage in to figure out what's actually happening with negotiations for a far-reaching, secret copyright ...
feed item - whytewolf - 02/18/2010 - 03:04 - 0 comments
- More leaked documents reveal details of secret copyright treaty negotiations
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Michael Geist sez, A brief report from the European Commission authored by Pedro Velasco Martins (an EU negotiator) on the most recent round of ACTA negotiations in Guadalajara, Mexico has leaked, providing new information on the substance of ...
feed item - whytewolf - 02/17/2010 - 09:02 - 0 comments
- US Trade Rep wants your input on ACTA
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The US Trade Representative -- who has been negotiating the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement without input from the American people or Congress -- is seeking public submissions on how to conduct US foreign copyright policy. This means that ...
feed item - whytewolf - 02/09/2010 - 08:20 - 0 comments
- USTR Insists Gov't Isn't Keeping ACTA Secret
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Stan McCoy, the assistant US trade rep, is apparently the new point man from the USTR office on jaw-dropping political doublespeak about ACTA. You may recall a few days back when McCoy insisted that there was a lot of misrepresentations about ACTA ...
feed item - whytewolf - 02/05/2010 - 12:20 - 0 comments
