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Authored by: calris74 on Tuesday, July 10 2012 @ 12:41 AM EDT |
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Love the comment from Ruslan Kogan:
Google "prides itself on an
objective search
algorithm."
Hello, regulators, where are
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 10 2012 @ 02:12 AM EDT |
NZ Herald
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 10 2012 @ 10:45 AM EDT |
Michael Geist sez,
Last week, the European
Parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject ACTA, striking a major blow to the
hopes of supporters who envisioned a landmark agreement that would set a new
standard for intellectual property rights enforcement. The European Commission,
which negotiates trade deals such as ACTA on behalf of the European Union, has
vowed to revive the badly damaged agreement. Its most high-profile move has been
to ask the European Court of Justice to rule on ACTA's compatibility with
fundamental European freedoms with the hope that a favourable ruling could allow
the European Parliament to reconsider the issue.
While the court
referral has attracted the lion share of attention, there is an alternate secret
strategy in which Canada plays a key role. According to recently leaked
documents, the EU plans to use the Canada - EU Trade Agreement (CETA), which is
nearing its final stages of negotiation, as a backdoor mechanism to implement
the ACTA provisions.
The CETA IP chapter has already attracted attention
due to EU pharmaceutical patent demands that could add billions to provincial
health care costs, but the bigger story may be that the same chapter features a
near word-for-word replica of ACTA.
According to the leaked document, dated
February 2012, Canada and the EU have already agreed to incorporate many of the
ACTA enforcement provisions into CETA, including the rules on general
obligations on enforcement, preserving evidence, damages, injunctions, and
border measure rules. One of these provisions even specifically references ACTA.
My post includes a comparison table of ACTA and the leaked CETA chapter.
Cory
Doctorow, Boing Boing
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ACTA Lives: How the EU
& Canada Are Using CETA as Backdoor Mechanism To Revive ACTA
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 10 2012 @ 11:14 AM EDT |
While it didn't get nearly as much attention as other parts of SOPA,
one section in the bill that greatly concerned us was the massive
expansion of the diplomatic corp.'s "IP attaches." If you're unfamiliar
with the program, basically IP attaches are "diplomats" (and I use the term
loosely) who go around the globe pushing a copyright maximalist position on
pretty much every other country. Their role is not to support more effective or
more reasonable IP policy. It is solely to increase expansion, and
basically act as Hollywood's personal thugs pressuring other countries to do the
will of the major studios and labels. The role is literally defined as pushing
for "aggressive support for enforcement action" throughout the world. A few
years ago, we detailed how, at a meeting of these attaches, they bitched and
complained about how copyright "activists" were making their
lives difficult and were a "threat" who needed to be dealt with.
In
other words, these people are not neutral.
Mike Masnick, Techdirt[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 10 2012 @ 11:58 AM EDT |
This is a fantastic paper which gives very enlightening
insight into the inner
workings of the Music Industry.
*MUST READ*
As stated
succinctly by one official to an innovator
offering a service that
the labels
could use to protect their music online, “You
don’t understand. Our
job is to
keep you down.”437
One respondent, who did not want the comment attributed to
him given the
sensitive nature of the information, relayed stories “from
the
rap business”
about “people being physically intimidated” or “being hung
out of
windows.”
Another respondent explained that “when you get high enough
up in
the
food chain (and bizarrely we few kids were caught in this
thing), you know
it’s
a rough game” and “you don’t belong there if you can’t
play.”
This is exactly what is happening to Kim Dotcom.
LINK
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 09:40 AM EDT |
reported by El Reg [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: YurtGuppy on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 02:16 PM EDT |
I thought it was Alice against the Umbrella Corp.
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a small fish in an even smaller pond[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: sproggit on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 05:26 PM EDT |
Today's Register has an article that makes int
eresting reading...
Quoting from the article
itself:
"Analysis A huge expansion of bureaucratic
power over UK copyright has been smuggled quietly into draft legislation –
giving civil servants the ability to sweep away copyright protection by
statutory instrument rather than primary legislation."
and...
there's more here,
here,
and here.
Quite a bit of occasionally confusing material to go through,
but we can at least all chip in and read it together...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 05:57 PM EDT |
http://www.accountingdegree.net/images/libor.jpg [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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