[Chapter-delegates] EU consultation on ACTA

[Christopher Wilkinson]

Dear Christine, Dear Frédéric:

I have registered to attend the ACTA hearings on Monday and will be  
there.

Regards, Christopher.

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On 19 Mar 2010, at 09:10, Christine Runnegar 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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