[Chapter-delegates] ISOC submission to EU on ACTA

[Jozef Halbersztadt]

Yes, we need an action to stop ACTA.

Best

JH

2012/1/17 Christopher Wilkinson <cw at christopherwilkinson.eu>:
> Jozef:
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> Actually there is already an ISOC position on ACTA:
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> Internet Society submission on the European Commission Anti-Counterfeiting
> Trade Agreement (ACTA) Stakeholders' Consultation Meeting
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> Perhaps we need to follow that up in present circumstances.
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> Regards,
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> Christopher.
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> On 17 Jan 2012, at 09:51, Jozef Halbersztadt wrote:
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> There is another and global face of this danger, called ACTA.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
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> 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
>
> --
> 'jothal' jozef [dot] halbersztadt [at] gmail [dot] com
> Internet Society Poland http://www.isoc.org.pl
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> 2012/1/17 Christopher Wilkinson <cw at christopherwilkinson.eu>:
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> This issue is of global relevance for at least two reasons:
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> -       the extraterritorial reach of some of the SOPA bill's provisions
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> -       a US precedent that may be followed by others.
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> CW
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> On 17 Jan 2012, at 08:25, Fred Baker wrote:
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> Do you think they could include HADOPI in that, or is this only about the
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> US?
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> On Jan 16, 2012, at 9:56 PM, Narelle Clark wrote:
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> This looks like a strong protest!
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>
> Thoughts anyone?
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>
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> To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community
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> From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
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> Date: January 16, 2012
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> Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the
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> English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00
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> UTC
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> on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia
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> Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation
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> in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House
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> of Representatives, and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate—that,
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> if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including
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> Wikipedia.
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> This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a
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> public
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> protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made.
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> etc at
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> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
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>
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> More info on SOPA:
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> Try our Harvard colleague (Jonathan Zittrain and BoT member) who is
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> actively working on this topic:
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> http://futureoftheinternet.org/sopa-compromise
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> and him on Colbert talking about it:
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> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111202/09361816954/colbert-takes-sopa.shtml
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>
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> Cheers
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> N
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> Narelle Clark
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> President
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> Internet Society of Australia
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> ph: 0412 297 043
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> int ph: +61 412 297 043
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> president at isoc-au.org.au
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> www.isoc-au.org.au
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