On the issue of the Anti Piracy committee's recommendation to Ms. Ambika Soni.
On 29 October 2010 10:25, Narendra Sisodiya <[email protected]> wrote: > Second, How we can place ourself in AACT ? Short answer cannot, as the committee has submitted its report already! Need for action, yes. Various things are now falling into place. The recommendations of the Committee are virtually verbatim copy of International Intellectual Property Alliance and the Motion Pictures Association of America. International Intellectual Property Alliance is the body that recommended that Open Source be considered as akin to piracy and also recommended that countries such as India, Brazil and Indonesia be put on Special 301 Watch list (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property). It is also active on ACTA as is Motion Pictures Association of America. Interestingly, in TRIPS, the Indian representative had some harsh things to say about ACTA (http://keionline.org/node/998), but again only on pharma and patent issue. That is because the pharma groups have done their homework but the FOSS groups (that includes me also :( ) have not. Suggest asap the following: A short letter to Ms. Soni opposing the ACTA ideas being imported thru the Indian film industry as the stalking horse. Follow up with seeking a meeting that this is not just films but a whole bunch of issues -- patents, copyright all are involved. Also Internet service providers as the burden of enforcement will be passed onto them. In short an Anti ACTA alliance on this issue. Volunteers for the draft? Pranesh? U r following these issues the most! Prabir > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
