Once Again, Entertainment Industry Looks To Force Massive Copyright Changes Via Int'l Treaties

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: September 25, 2009 5:07:58 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Once Again, Entertainment Industry Looks To  
Force Massive Copyright Changes Via Int'l Treaties

Once Again, Entertainment Industry Looks To Force Massive Copyright  
Changes Via Int'l Treaties
from the how-the-game-is-played dept
<http://techdirt.com/articles/20090925/0128446320.shtml>

By now you should know that one of the entertainment industry's  
favorite tools for forcing ever more draconian copyright laws around  
the world is to use international treaties. Such treaties are not put  
together by elected officials, but appointed diplomats, often with  
tremendous input (to the point of allowing them to write the details)  
from industries that are protected. Then, once those treaties are in  
place, copyright maximalists just get to sit back and say "but we must  
make our copyright laws stronger if we ever expect to live up to our  
international obligations..." The latest such attempt is the infamous  
ACTA bill, which the entertainment industry has had a heavy hand in  
crafting -- but the public is told that the treaty negotiations are  
matters of national security and cannot be revealed. Uh huh.

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