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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 8:20 AM
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According to once-secret, now-leaked sections of the new, plurilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, global Internet users and ISPs might be in for a world of hurt in the near future.
A U.S.-drafted chapter on Internet use would require ISPs to police user-generated content, to cut off Internet access for copyright violators, and to remove content that is accused of copyright violation without any proof of actual violation. The chapter also completely prohibits DRM workarounds, even for archiving or retrieving one's own work. Read on for details and implications.
Above text from: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/copyright_treaty_leaked_trouble_for_isps_and_in.php
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
Michael Geist - monitoring ACTA: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_tags&task=view&tag=acta&Itemid=408
Leaked Draft of the agreement: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Proposed_US_ACTA_multi-lateral_intellectual_property_trade_agreement_(2007)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has this to say about it:
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U.S. negotiators are seeking policies that will harm the U.S. technology industry and citizens across the globe. Three Strikes/ Graduated Response is the top priority of the entertainment industry... The ACTA text appears to leave the door open for major changes to the existing national Internet intermediary liability regimes that have been the global status quo since the mid 1990s, and which have underpinned both tremendous Internet innovation, and citizens' online freedom of expression and the rich world of user generated content that we take for granted today.
European citizens should also be concerned and indignant. As reported, the ACTA Internet provisions would also appear to be inconsistent with the EU eCommerce Directive and existing national law...
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