folks ..the fucking war on this ,the war on that ....is ALL bullshit ......The REAL war going on ...is the war on IDEAS!! .... do the People of the World want free & open ...ideas ? or "only" the 'few' allowed the REAL ideas ?? about 6.5 Billions of US folks ....& how many of 'them' what's say u !
Libertarians and Internet-freedom advocates cheered when we defeated SOPA and
PIPA—the attempt by the US government to limit Internet freedom in the
name of protecting the insidious, false property right known as
“copyright”.1
But did we really defeat it? Soon after, similar provisions popped up in other international agreements being negotiated like the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), as discussed in the latest This Week in Law. (I’ve talked about it previously, in my post SOPA II? Obama’s Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.)
Concern over ACTA abated when some countries bowed out, but as Professor Michael Geist explains in the afore-linked episode of TWiL, it still might be passed. And even if it’s not, the TPP is being negotiated in secret and is rolling ahead full-steam. It seems like it will be ratified by year-end by a number of countries. This is being billed as an attempt to “harmonize” free trade laws, but as Geist says, it’s more like an attempt to “Americanize” by imposing US-style copyright terms and penalties (such as our insane, draconian statutory damages) on other countries.
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As an example, the Berne Convention requires member states to have a
minimum copyright term of life of the author plus 50 years; the US has added 20 years to this (life plus 70), and now seeks to twist the arms of other countries, via the TPP, to adopt this term.2 If
you want the benefits of free trade with us, you need to put people in
jail for “pirating” our Hollywood cronies’ movies, see?
This is just another act of IP Imperialism that the US is so known for. I fear they will get away with this, and maybe even ACTA. SOPA is not really dead after all, I guess.
Update: Cato inexplicably has come out in favor of the TPP, despite its horrible copyright fascism, without a mention of this aspect. See Cato’s article The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: A Roadmap for Success. Now, I’ve myself endorsed multilateral trade agreements before, in the past (“An International Framework for the Protection of Investment,” Philadelphia Lawyer, p. 20 (Fall 1997)), but we cannot support an increase in IP protection as the price to pay for increased free trade. Not a fair trade.
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Longer Copyright Terms, Stiffer Copyright Penalties Coming, Thanks to TPP and ACTA
By Stephan Kinsella | C4SIF.com| October 21, 2013 |
The TPP is being negotiated in secret and is rolling ahead full-steam. It seems like it will be ratified by year-end by a number of countries.
Libertarians and Internet-freedom advocates cheered when we defeated SOPA and
PIPA—the attempt by the US government to limit Internet freedom in the
name of protecting the insidious, false property right known as
“copyright”.1But did we really defeat it? Soon after, similar provisions popped up in other international agreements being negotiated like the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), as discussed in the latest This Week in Law. (I’ve talked about it previously, in my post SOPA II? Obama’s Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.)
Concern over ACTA abated when some countries bowed out, but as Professor Michael Geist explains in the afore-linked episode of TWiL, it still might be passed. And even if it’s not, the TPP is being negotiated in secret and is rolling ahead full-steam. It seems like it will be ratified by year-end by a number of countries. This is being billed as an attempt to “harmonize” free trade laws, but as Geist says, it’s more like an attempt to “Americanize” by imposing US-style copyright terms and penalties (such as our insane, draconian statutory damages) on other countries.
This is just another act of IP Imperialism that the US is so known for. I fear they will get away with this, and maybe even ACTA. SOPA is not really dead after all, I guess.
Update: Cato inexplicably has come out in favor of the TPP, despite its horrible copyright fascism, without a mention of this aspect. See Cato’s article The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: A Roadmap for Success. Now, I’ve myself endorsed multilateral trade agreements before, in the past (“An International Framework for the Protection of Investment,” Philadelphia Lawyer, p. 20 (Fall 1997)), but we cannot support an increase in IP protection as the price to pay for increased free trade. Not a fair trade.
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