Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Criticism of ACTA in Australia and New Zealand continues to mount with a steady stream of articles complaining that assurances that ACTA would be limited to commercial piracy "are turning to dust."
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Public Knowledge and KEI have released a public letter expressing concern with the substance of ACTA.
Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The US Chamber of Commerce claims "transparency" of ACTA to be satisfactory
Electronic Frontier Foundation (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last week saw the latest round of secret negotiations on ACTA, on criminal enforcement of IP, enforcement in the digital environment, and, according to one of the few public documents on the negotiations, ACTA's own "transparency". It's hard to imagine a more controversial set of IP topics -- and underlying them all is the distinct lack of transparency attached to the entire...
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Last week Canadian officials travelled to Seoul for the latest round of closed-door negotiations on an international treaty called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Battling commercial counterfeiting would seem like a good idea, but leaks have revealed that ACTA - which has been conducted with unprecedented secrecy - is really about copyright, rather than counterfeiting....
Intellectual Property Watch (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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.
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement? Or perhaps just another government monstrosity with “good” intentions? Here is an article discussing in detail the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement. (For those of you who may not know, when Shelly mentions participants signing an “NDA,” this stands for Non-Disclosure Agreement.)
p2pnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Last week Canadian officials travelled to Seoul for the latest round of closed-door negotiations on an international treaty called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). While battling commercial counterfeiting would seem like a good idea, the ACTA process has been marked by unprecedented secrecy as well as leaks revealing that [...]
Linux Journal (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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) | 11/09/2009
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) | 11/09/2009
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) | 11/09/2009
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) | 11/09/2009
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) | 11/09/2009
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.
