Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-28 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Stephen LaPorte slapo...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello Kim, Geoff asked me to prepare the following summaries of ACTA and OPEN with the understanding that it only represents some preliminary research to support the ongoing community discussion. You can find the

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-28 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Orionist orion@gmail.com wrote: If I understand correctly, Obama has issued an executive order approving ACTA, but that executive order is suppressed as a state secret.  And the administration hasnt given it a number because there are no gaps in the

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-27 Thread Stephen LaPorte
Hello Kim, Geoff asked me to prepare the following summaries of ACTA and OPEN with the understanding that it only represents some preliminary research to support the ongoing community discussion. You can find the research here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/ACTA

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-27 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: .. One does well to follow Michael Geist's blogs on this [http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ here].  He has been on top of this issue since it started, and provides links to developments on his left sidebar. ACTA is probably

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-27 Thread David Richfield
I found two sentences unclear, but didn't know how to fix them; see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Legal/ACTA -- [[:en:User:Slashme|David Richfield]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-27 Thread Orionist
If I understand correctly, Obama has issued an executive order approving ACTA, but that executive order is suppressed as a state secret. And the administration hasnt given it a number because there are no gaps in the numbering of Obama's EO list..? As I understand it's rather called an

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-25 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2012/1/25 Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl: I would like to thank Geoff Brigham for the excellent job he did analysing the consequences of SOPA for wikipedia.        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Legal_overview Would it be possible to analyse ACTA in a similar

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-25 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 01/24/12 8:13 PM, Geoff Brigham wrote: Hi Kim, I will be happy to ask one of our junior attorney interns, Stephen, to do a short 1-2 page summary of ACTA. This may take about a week. BTW Stephen is a Wikipedian who has been providing significant and excellent support to me during the SOPA

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Tomasz Ganicz, 25/01/2012 09:22: I don't know if there is manpower for this - but it would be great if the analysis covers also impact of ACTA on EU law and EU related Wikipedias (those which have majority of editors from EU countries). In case of EU - there is slightly more time -than for US.

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-25 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2012/1/25 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Tomasz Ganicz, 25/01/2012 09:22: I don't know if there is manpower for this - but it would be great if the analysis covers also impact of ACTA on EU law and EU related Wikipedias (those which have majority of editors from EU countries). In

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-25 Thread Kim Bruning
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 08:13:59PM -0800, Geoff Brigham wrote: Hi Kim, I will be happy to ask one of our junior attorney interns, Stephen, to do a short 1-2 page summary of ACTA. This may take about a week. BTW Stephen is a Wikipedian who has been providing significant and excellent

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-25 Thread Kim Bruning
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 08:37:38PM +0100, Kim Bruning wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 08:13:59PM -0800, Geoff Brigham wrote: Hi Kim, I will be happy to ask one of our junior attorney interns, Stephen, to do a short 1-2 page summary of ACTA. This may take about a week. BTW Stephen is a

[Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-24 Thread Kim Bruning
I would like to thank Geoff Brigham for the excellent job he did analysing the consequences of SOPA for wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Legal_overview Would it be possible to analyse ACTA in a similar manner? This is apparently the treaty text:

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-24 Thread FT2
Already in hand :) FT2 On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: I would like to thank Geoff Brigham for the excellent job he did analysing the consequences of SOPA for wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Legal_overview Would

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-24 Thread Geoff Brigham
Hi Kim, I will be happy to ask one of our junior attorney interns, Stephen, to do a short 1-2 page summary of ACTA. This may take about a week. BTW Stephen is a Wikipedian who has been providing significant and excellent support to me during the SOPA protest. Cheers, Geoff On Tue, Jan 24,