In addition to Mr Nag's note, there are some initial drafts of the
agreements available on Wikileaks, which are useful to look at.http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Classified_US%2C_Japan_and_EU_ACTA_trade_agreement_drafts%2C_2009 Despite the efforts of the Free Software groups, we have been unsuccessful in obtaining any information from various parties who have signed the Non- Disclosure Agreements. People behind ACTA are the usual line of suspects, Time Warner, Sony Corp, News Corp. Walt Disney along with law firms, other Japanese, U.S.parties etc who have made substantial financial contributions. ACTA will create a culture of surveillance and suspicion, it is going to extend stricter U.S. Digital Millenium Copyright Act provisions specifically ones dealing with Internet Service Provider, wherein no legal safeguards would be provided to the ISP's thus forcing them to become privacy invading parties in all aspects. FSF has a number of problems with ACTA and has a campaign available at http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/ Michael Geist's recent postings do not indicate any reliable source as of now, thus it is difficult to precisely comment upon the terms of ACTA as we have not had a look at it. However,indications from previous give a clear idea about enforcing WIPO+ structure on all countries especially India. The same will be difficult to pass through the usual legal process of legislation and is thus being negotiated as an International Treaty. We are working on this issue and will update you further. -- Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary Legal Counsel Software Freedom Law Center 1995 Broadway 17FL New York, NY 10023 (tel) 212-461-1912 (fax) 212-580-0898 www.softwarefreedom.org _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
