FC: Jamie Love on DMCA hoedown, party on Capitol Hill this Thursday

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Jamie works for Ralph Nader at the Consumer Project on Technology. --Declan]

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From: "James Love" <james.love () cptech org>
To: <declan () well com>, <politech () politechbot com>
Subject: Re: DMCA hoedown! Copyright fans party on Capitol Hill on Thursday
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:53:22 -0400

Declan, If you look at the list of countries, it is pretty clear that the US
just went out and told a number of developing countries to sign the treaty,
so it would not disappear.   Burkina Faso, Ecuador, El Salvador, Gabon,
Honduras, Mali, Saint Lucia, Senegal and several other countries did not
decide on their own that they needed this treaty, it was the heavy hand of
the USTR and the US Department of State and other US governemnt (or US
governemnt controlled bodies) that forced this issue.  Look who has not
signed (Germany, France, the UK, Australia, etc), and who has signed.  jl

http://www.wipo.int/treaties/documents/english/word/s-wct.doc

who has signed..
      Argentina
      Belarus.............................................
      Bulgaria...........................................
      Burkina Faso..................................
      Chile...............................................
      Colombia........................................
      Costa Rica......................................
      Croatia............................................
      Czech Republic..............................
      Ecuador...........................................
      El Salvador......................................
      Gabon.............................................
      Georgia...........................................
      Guinea............................................
      Honduras........................................
      Hungary..........................................
      Indonesia........................................
      Jamaica...........................................
      Japan..............................................
      Kyrgyzstan....................................
      Latvia..............................................
      Lithuania.........................................
      Mali................................................
      Mexico............................................
      Panama...........................................
      Paraguay.........................................
      Peru................................................
      Republic of Moldova.....................
      Romania..........................................
      Saint Lucia......................................
      Senegal............................................
      Slovakia..........................................
      Slovenia..........................................
      Ukraine...........................................
      United States of America...............

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Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 14:48:38 +1000
From: Nathan Cochrane <ncochrane () theage fairfax com au>
Organization: The Age newspaper
To: declan () well com
Subject: Re: FC: DMCA hoedown! Copyright fans party on Capitol Hill on Thursday

Goodo, Declan. I found this hysterically funny, although I don't know if 
that was your purpose. Certainly, I would expect to see a protest of some 
sort outside.

But what really got me was the entry of the USA into the ranks of 
third-world, poverty-stricken countries judging by the ambassadors that are 
attending. If that's the sort of crowd a pat-back fest for the DMCA draws, 
then sadly I think the writing is on the wall.

cheers

Nathan

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