Michael Geist reports that : the next round of ACTA negotiations, which had been scheduled for next month in Morocco, has been delayed at the request of U.S. officials. While this does not signal a change in perspective on ACTA, the U.S. did want to provide incoming USTR officials time to review ACTA before continuing [...]
Category Archives: ACTA
ACTA March round delayed – Geist
22-Feb-09And on the subject of ACTA…
04-Feb-09There’s a wee snippet in the Briefings to Incoming Ministers regarding ACTA. Yes, I do read these things. Not for fun, you understand, but they’re always a good way to get an overview of what government agencies are working on and how they are constructed, especially when there’s a change of Government. The Beehive site [...]
Watch out for the Black Helicopters!
04-Feb-09We return you to your regular programme, after a summer hiatus that I wasn’t intending, actually. And what better way to get into 2009 than with some juicy leaked stuff! James Love, of Knowledge Ecology International, has just blogged some details from apparently leaked documents re ACTA http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/02/03/details-emerge-of-secret-acta/ It seems he has the outline and [...]
Those crazy Holloway kids are up in arms about S92a, and you don’t mess with artists in arms! They’ve started a new foundation, the Creative Freedom Foundation, and I’m delighted to support it.
MED discovers RSS – Film at eleven!
15-Oct-08Just spotted in my RSS feed from the Government portal – newzealand.govt.nz, in case you didn’t know – is a post from MED about the latest round of ACTA negotiations ACTA Negotiations: Report on Round Three, 8-9 October 2008, Tokyo Of course, it says bugger all of substance, as expected after the last round report, [...]
Where do they stand?
12-Oct-08On September 17, I emailed all the parties I could find from the Elections Website to ask what their policies were regarding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. I looked at their websites first – nothing at all [UPDATE: as xurizaemon points out in the comments, the Greens at least have a tech policy statement that covers [...]
Section 92a – Who’s watching your bits?
09-Oct-08Colin Jackson was incredulously eloquent this morning on RNZ, talking to Kathryn Ryan (speaking notes on his blog) about the farce that is section 92a of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment, which is a little like a foretaste of ACTA. Basically, section 92a says to ISPs, though shalt not allow thy users to download copyright [...]