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More free trade IP bullshit.

wilful — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:42:48 -0800

Australia hosts secret trade agreement negotiations this week in Melbourne This Thursday, behind closed doors in Melbourne, representatives from nine countries will take up discussions once again on an ambitious, comprehensive trade agreement for the Asia-Pacific region. Negotiators from Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Vietnam, Malaysia, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Peru and Singapore will pore over draft treaty text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, an agreement to cover all aspects of commercial relations between the countries, from competition and customs to e-commerce, rules of origin and labor, from textiles and apparel to telecommunications and intellectual property. The intellectual property chapter for the TPP will lay out lengthy, highly detailed, coverage of all aspects of IP enforcement and protection between the nine countries.

On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

jeffburdges — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:39 -0800

American Censorship Day is an internet protest against the oft-renamed Stop Online Piracy Act. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is increasingly being viewed, not merely as copyright lawyers buying themselves a meal ticket, but as an internet border around the U.S. or a political blacklist tool. (previously) At least, it's less market unfriendly than the internet kill switch, which Senator Lieberman has championed ever since the Arab Spring. There are two interesting organizations I'd never heard of among the backers of American Censorship Day, the Participatory Politics Foundation, who run OpenCongress, and Fight For The Future, who added a little levity with Free Bieber.

Nomen est Omen

jeffburdges — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:00:19 -0800

The U.S. House of Representatives has drafted their version of Senator Leahy's Protect IP Act, renaming the bill the E-Parasites Act. Among other changes discussed previously, the bill now makes internet service providers and websites liable for activities of their users that infringe upon copyrights, effectively overturning parts of the 13-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

COICA Round Two

jeffburdges — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:27:04 -0800

Senator Leahy's Protect IP Act would require that U.S. ISPs impose an 'internet death penalty' upon domain after merely a preliminary injunction from a U.S. court that suspects the site of being 'dedicated to infringing activities', even if the domain's owner had never been notified and was not subject to U.S. jurisdiction. There is concern that the legislation would fragment the DNS system and facilitate DNS spoofing by obstructing DNSSEC (pdf). There is also an open letter opposing the bill signed by 108 Law Professors who study intellectual property law. Leahy's previous attempt called COICA died in committee in 2010.