[Chapter-delegates] PES on ACTA - wow!

[Joly MacFie]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:50 PM, <jothal at o2.pl> wrote:

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> 2012/2/9 Eduard Tric <eduard.tric at isoc.ro>:
> .
> >
> > Our last analysis of Acta is that two treaties are needed : one
> addressing international counterfeintg issues , another one addressing
> international piracy issues. Trying to solve piracy problems with
> counterfeiting treaty is wired.
> >
>
> It is current situation which ACTA is trying to change. In TRIPS you have
> counterfeiting of trademarks and piracy of copyright which are clear
> separate issues.
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>
On the other other hand, in the USA the RIAA, smarting from their recent
defeat, are doing their very best to conflate the two:

See
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/technology/in-piracy-debate-deciding-if-the-sky-is-falling.html


Media companies have no plans to immediately revisit the antipiracy
> legislation. Instead, several entertainment executives said they
> planned to reorganize and talk to labor unions, pharmaceutical
> companies and other backers of the legislation about a unified message
> so the antipiracy and anticounterfeiting movement was not just
> associated with Hollywood.



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