Religious Freedom and Freedom of Speech
Freedom of religion over at Wheat & Weeds, and curtsy to her too for Freedom of speech: The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to... [read full story]
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Here’s That Leaked Copyright Treaty Document
The secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document we wrote about on Wednesday appeared on Wikileaks today, and our source has cleared us to publish it here as well. We wrote that the document, (.pdf) if true, amounted to...
Leaked text of secret copyright treaty vs. bland bureaucratic press-release describing same
Michael Geist sez, "The latest round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (the secret copyright treaty) talks have now wrapped up with the usual bland press release confirming that the talks focused on Internet and criminal...
"ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will...
“ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of...
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
If described accurately, the provisions outlined in secret negotiations on copyright amount to a sovereign coup - an usurpation of basic rights and freedoms by a corproate government entity. Don't take my word for it. The...
Obama's Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Is Not Hopey or Changey [Mike the Mad Biologist]
Over at BoingBoing , we read about the leaked version of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a copyright treaty (so much for the Obama Administration's commitment to transparency. Maybe it's something in the White House...
United States Pushing International, Mandatory Copyright Laws. Guilty Until Proven Innocent!
Via Boing Boing, some shocking news : The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has...
Will the copyright treaty take us back to Web 1.0?
Here's some of what's leaked from secret negotiations to hammer out the treaty, according to Boing Boing : That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to...
MPAA & RIAA Want To Rule (and Rewrite) The World’s Copyright Laws
This article is written from a Canadian perspective, but at the end includes links to reactions from other countries. The talks are designed to create a world wide set of American-style, MPAA & RIAA-wanted (although, of course,...
Secret Internet Copyright Treaty Will Put An End To Delaware Way Blog?
Nice. Obama made a deal to destroy the intertubes that helped him get elected. The terms of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will effectively shut down "services like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger" and Much Much Worse....
Thursday Morning News (as the week flies by)
This is it: Senate acts to extend aid for jobless, homebuyers: Congress has no choice but to act when there are 15 million jobless chasing 3 million jobs and 7,000 people run out of benefits every day, said Senate Finance...
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