[Chapter-delegates] English Wikipedia going dark tomorrow!

[Jozef Halbersztadt]

There is another and global face of this danger, called ACTA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement

European Union is going to sign the treaty on IPR enforcement in near future, following the USA and a few other countries. We think in Poland how to ignite a similar flame of protest against ACTA. ISOC initiative, maybe at European level, would be helpful.

JH

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2012/1/17 Christopher Wilkinson <cw at christopherwilkinson.eu>:
> This issue is of global relevance for at least two reasons:
>
> -       the extraterritorial reach of some of the SOPA bill's provisions
>
> -       a US precedent that may be followed by others.
>
> CW
>
>
> On 17 Jan 2012, at 08:25, Fred Baker wrote:
>
>> Do you think they could include HADOPI in that, or is this only about the
>> US?
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2012, at 9:56 PM, Narelle Clark wrote:
>>
>>> This looks like a strong protest!
>>>
>>> Thoughts anyone?
>>>
>>>
>>> To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community
>>> From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
>>> Date: January 16, 2012
>>> Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the
>>> English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00
>>> UTC
>>> on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia
>>> Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation
>>> in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House
>>> of Representatives, and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate—that,
>>> if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including
>>> Wikipedia.
>>>
>>> This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a
>>> public
>>> protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made.
>>> etc at
>>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
>>>
>>>
>>> More info on SOPA:
>>> Try our Harvard colleague (Jonathan Zittrain and BoT member) who is
>>> actively working on this topic:
>>> http://futureoftheinternet.org/sopa-compromise
>>>
>>> and him on Colbert talking about it:
>>>
>>> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111202/09361816954/colbert-takes-sopa.shtml
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> N
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Narelle Clark
>>> President
>>> Internet Society of Australia
>>> ph: 0412 297 043
>>> int ph: +61 412 297 043
>>> president at isoc-au.org.au
>>> www.isoc-au.org.au
>>>
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