[Chapter-delegates] EU consultation on ACTA

[Patrick Vande Walle]

Thanks for this draft letter, Christine. It is very good, given we don't
have the actual text being discussed. 

It may be worth pointing out in the letter that the European Parliament
has adopted a resolution requiring it be associated in the discussionsand
that the ACTA negotiators publish the draft texts.  

See
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&reference=P7-TA-2010-0058&language=EN&ring=P7-RC-2010-0154
Background information:
http://www.euractiv.com/en/health/meps-defy-commission-internet-piracy-agreement-news-326215

Something like (page 2, paragraph 2) "Like many other parties and
stakeholders, most notably the European Parliament, We urge the ACTA
participants to publish the digital provisions under consideration" 

Patrick


On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:10:41 +0100, "Christine Runnegar"
<runnegar at isoc.org> wrote:
> Dear ISOC colleagues,
> 
> Thank you Alejandro for alerting the ISOC community to the upcoming
> European
> Commission public consultation on the negotiations concerning the
> Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
> 
> 
> EC public consultation on ACTA
> 
> As many of you may already know, a document said to be a section of the
> draft treaty known as the "Digital Chapter" was recently made available
on
> the Internet. As far as I am aware, there has been no official
confirmation
> of this document or its contents, so we need to be careful in drawing
> conclusions.
> 
> We hope that the European Commission's public consultation on 22 March
2010
> in Brussels will provide further information regarding the substance of
the
> matters being negotiated as they relate to the Internet so that ISOC can
> speak from an informed position. To this end, ISOC proposes to send
> Frederic
> Donck (Director European Regional Bureau) and Christine Runnegar (Senior
> Manager Public Policy and coordinator of the ISOC Working Group on
emerging
> policy responses to online copyright infringement) to observe and report
> back to the broader ISOC community.
> 
> If anyone else in the ISOC community is planning to attend, perhaps we
> could
> arrange (off list) to meet before the meeting starts. 
> 
> ISOC is also proposing to submit a brief statement in advance of the
> meeting
> on Monday (attached). We apologise for the short time frame, and welcome
> your comments and suggestions by cob Friday 19 March 2010 please.
> 
> 
> Additional background
> 
> It appears the participants in the ACTA negotiations intend to include
> provisions to specifically address the enforcement of intellectual
property
> rights in the digital environment (see See Background in the NZ
Invitation
> for Submissions on Enforcement in the Digital Environment
> http://tinyurl.com/yz6xurp).
>  
> Further, the Summary of Key Elements Under Discussion provided by the
> European Commission Director General for Trade, in November 2009, (see
> http://tinyurl.com/yfd7ste) states:
> 
> "This section of the agreement addresses some of the special challenges
> that
> new technologies pose for enforcement of intellectual property rights.
> Elements under discussion in this section include the availability of
> remedies:
>     - 	in cases of third party liability, without prejudice to the
> availability of exceptions and limitations;
>     - 	related to infringing material online, including limitations on
the
> application of those remedies to online service providers;
>     - 	related to the circumvention of technological protection
measures,
> including the availability of exceptions and limitations;
>     - 	related to the protection of right management information,
including
> the availability of exceptions and limitations."
> 
> 
> NZ Consultation
> 
> The New Zealand Ministry for Economic Development has also launched a
> public
> consultation. More information regarding this consultation can be found
> here: http://tinyurl.com/yarv743. We are also presently proposing to
submit
> a brief statement along the lines of the statement for the EU
consultation,
> but we will shortly provide you with further information regarding this.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Christine
> 
> ______________________
> 
> Christine Runnegar
> Senior Manager Public Policy
> Internet Society
> Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15
> CH-1204 Geneva
> Switzerland
> 
> Tel: +41 22 807 1455
> www.isoc.org

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