In "power politics" the ACTA negotiations that are currently in Korea go to a new round of information on the contract and the importance for national legislation, which were previously determined by agreements with the international WIPO considered.
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"For some time at the international level, the " Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ", ACTA briefly discussed. The agreement with the flowery marketing name being negotiated multilaterally and through the G8 and some friendly countries pursued a secret. And affects all our futures. Time to learn about the backgrounds. Why
ACTA and not the WIPO? The multilateralism
surprise at first glance: there but already at the international level, the "World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO short, which is exactly responsible for the issues of intellectual monopoly rights. And in 1996, this organization of the WIPO Copyright Treaty created as a separate agreement, the basis of current copyright laws is.
On second look, however, clear how WIPO is no longer the place for a further tightening of the Copyright Rules: Did the time of WIPO Copyright Treaty the rich Western countries and the lobby groups of the copyright industry nor the expression and interpretation of sovereignty over WIPO, have turned the majority situation in recent years to a stalemate in the WIPO.
two camps are now over there. On the one hand, Western states claim with the U.S. and the EU in the lead, along with the lobbyists for the copyright industry to extend the protection of intellectual monopoly rights. On the other hand, has an alliance of emerging and developing countries together with a broad civil society network of civil rights, development aid and library associations established, which will promote demand for broader access to knowledge and culture and .
around ACTA Negotiations were launched to overcome this stalemate. Once there is the ACTA, the participating States will ensure in international treaties that it will be extended to many other countries.
The ACTA is being negotiated secret. Overall, worldwide, only a few dozen people have access to the negotiations and the current texts. Fortunately, it is always people who, despite the obligation of secrecy ensure that individual bargaining positions come in chunks to the public. And provide necessary global protests! ---> read more
Latest Information:
19.11. on ORF future zone: ACTA negotiators on the gas
New details about ACTA
The ACTA internet chapter: putting the pieces together and blog on Copyright in the Knowledge Society "a little - maybe for libraries relevant chapters of it - in German translation
anti-piracy agreement for power locks with copyright violations and
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