Intellectual Property Watch (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
During the most recent negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in Seoul, Korea on 4-6 November, about which no information is available, US industry and public interest groups issued statements taking widely divergent positions on progress of the talks.
Linux Journal (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
It was over a year ago that I wrote about the “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” (ACTA), a new global standard for the enforcement of intellectual monopolies currently being discussed by representatives of the United States, the European Commission, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New Zealand. Since then, the secret negotiations have been continuing,...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Fellow readers, you may have been horrified by recent news concerning the leaking of ACTA treaty proposals (TMT News), primarily led by the Obama/Biden administration's industry-fueled intentions for a "graduated response" (a.k.a. three-strikes) policy and for ISPs to actively monitor user activity for signs of piracy and force disconnects. But there is some hope: Last week, after...
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
That warm flood of outrage through the veins is addicting—but it also runs the danger of being addictive, and of being too easy. As the news broke this week about the "Internet provisions" in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), it didn't take long for the outrage to emerge. For instance, the popular blog Boing Boing (we love you, Cory!) announced that, under the...
LWN.net (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Glyn Moody looks at the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (ACTA) in a Linux Journal article. This essentially secret (in the US, for "national security" reasons) treaty looks to implement a wide array of restrictions that the content "producers" are lobbying for. As one might guess, it is a vast expansion of copyright. " The second of these means that ISPs...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Last week, “the United States met behind closed doors with dozens of other countries in Seoul, South Korea to consider a global agreement on the enforcement of intellectual property rights,” say KEI and Public Knowledge in a joint statement. “This agreement, though named the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), implicates [...]
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The reaction to revelations about the Internet provisions of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement continue. Notable articles include: Canada: Still-murky copyright treaty could change web as we use it New Zealand: New Zealand should not sign international piracy agreement Australia: ISPs Focus of Piracy Talks Australia: Fighting Piracy - three strikes and you're out? Spain: La negociación...
CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Former Indians pitcher Tim Belcher is the team's new pitching coach, the first member of manager Manny Acta's staff.
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Earlier tonight I appeared on CBC's As It Happens to discuss ACTA. An MP3 version of the interview is available.
Amused Cynicism (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The ACTA treaty is being negotiated in secret. It stands for “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” but that’s just a cover name: it’s really about clamping down on internet freedom. It’s said that the USA has the best government money can buy, and that’s true; the US government has been well and truely bought and paid for by [...]
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
As the ACTA story begins to capture mainstream media attention (front page of the Ottawa Citizen , coverage from the Washington Post , NZ Herald , the Atlantic , Wired ), the press release from the now-concluded Seoul talks should be released shortly [update: release out, exactly as predicted ]. If the past releases are any indication, it will thank the Korean government and blandly describe...
Intellectual Property Watch (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
As governments negotiating the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) meet in Seoul this week, public interest concern has surfaced over leaked information on internet enforcement.
TechnoLlama (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... and the European Commission have been drafting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Up until recently, little was known about the agreement other than the negotiation was shrouded in secrecy, which made a lot of people understandably nervous. After all, this is an IP infringement agreement, which has the potential to export draconian IP measures to contracting states. Since 2007,...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The latest round of ACTA negotiations, which concluded yesterday in in Seoul, Korea, might have been summed up as secret talks on transparency, Michael Geist suggested. “Having spent the first day focused on the now-leaked Internet provisions and the second day on the leaked criminal provisions, negotiators will spend [...]
Cnet (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Leaks from the secret negotiations of the ACTA treaty allege that ISPs worldwide would be required to lose safe harbor protections, implement three-strike antipiracy policies and worse. We think this is outrageous.
