On 01/24/12 8:13 PM, Geoff Brigham wrote:
Hi Kim,
I will be happy to ask one of our junior attorney interns, Stephen, to do a
short 1-2 page summary of ACTA. This may take about a week. BTW Stephen
is a Wikipedian who has been providing significant and excellent support to
me during the SOPA protest.
Cheers,
Geoff
One does well to follow Michael Geist's blogs on this
[http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ here]. He has been on top of this issue
since it started, and provides links to developments on his left sidebar.
ACTA is probably more damaging outside the US than within because it
imposes US views in other countries without any of the due process that
would normally be available to US persons. The entire agreement is a
trade agreement which only happens to have copyright as a major content
element. It seeks to protect the interests of American business. By
framing the issues in terms of "trade" and "enforcement", it ignores how
seriously fucked-up copyright law has become.
Ray
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Kim Bruning<k...@bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
I would like to thank Geoff Brigham for the excellent job he did analysing
the consequences of SOPA for wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Legal_overview
Would it be possible to analyse ACTA in a similar manner? This is
apparently the treaty text:
http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/assets/pdfs/acta-crc_apr15-2011_eng.pdf
Possibly we've already done so, and I've missed it? :-)
I'm especially interested in the following questions:
* What issues, if any, does ACTA raise, for wikipedia?
* what points would be wise to point out to legislature, to ensure
wikipedia does not come to harm, if implemented anyway?
We can then proceed to engage with the diverse members of the diverse
committees in .eu (as required), or engage with our local
legislature (as required)
Once appropriate for us, note that La quadrature du net is taking action,
and has collected all relevant phone numbers and addresses etc:
https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA#Contact_your_Elected_Representatives
The window for action on ACTA is now very narrow, time is short.
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
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