Did I mention copyright can be bad for you...
American University document
http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/go/acta-communique
"FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
ACTA would authorize or encourage private and government enforcement
measures that would:
* curtail enjoyment of fundamental rights and liberties, including
domestic and internationally protected human rights to health, privacy
and the protection of personal data, free expression, education,
cultural participation, and right to a fair legal process, including
fair trial and presumptions of innocence.
THE INTERNET
ACTA would
* Encourage internet service providers to police the activities of
internet users by holding internet providers responsible for the actions
of subscribers, conditioning safe harbors on adopting policing policies,
and by requiring parties to encourage cooperation between service
providers and rights holders;
* Encourage this surveillance, and the potential for punitive
disconnections by private actors, without adequate court oversight or
due process;
* Globalize 'anti-circumvention' provisions which threaten
innovation, competition, free (freedom-respecting) software, open access
business models, interoperability, the enjoyment of user rights, and
user choice;
SCOPE AND NATURE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
ACTA would distort fundamental balances between the rights and interests
of proprietors and users, including by
* introducing highly specific rights and remedies for rights
holders without detailing correlative exceptions, limitations, and
procedural safeguards for users;
* shifting enforcement burdens to public authorities and private
intermediaries in ways that are likely to be more sensitive to
proprietary concerns;
* requiring formula-driven assessment of damages, potentially
unrelated to any proven harm or gain;
* omitting strong disincentives to abuse of enforcement processes
by right holders;
* including rigid injunction, damages and heightened civil and
criminal enforcement requirements that will restrict government
flexibility, impede innovation and slow the development and diffusion of
green technology;
* threaten the continuation or development of innovative public
intererst exceptions, such as common law approaches to permitting copies
of works by "authorization.""
Remind you of any UK laws or proposals ?
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