ACTA and PCIP 2012
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Every right-thinking person abhors child pornography. To combat it, legislators have brought through committee a poorly conceived, over-broad Congressional bill, The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011.
The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic
At this moment, the adage “Politics makes for strange bed-fellows” has never been more true. I am Sheriff Richard Mack , candidate running against SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith in the rapidly approaching Texas Primary. AMA.
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The United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on Saturday, an accord targeting intellectual property piracy. The European Union, Mexico and Switzerland—the only other governments participating in the accord’s creation—did not sign the deal at a ceremony in Japan but "confirmed their continuing strong support for and preparations to sign the agreement as soon as practical," the parties said in a joint statement.
US signs ACTA
More than 70 academics, mostly legal scholars, are urging President Barack Obama to open a proposed international intellectual-property agreement to public review before signing it. The likely route for that is bringing the ACTA agreement to the Senate for ratification.
Scholars Say International Property Accord Needs Senate Approval | Threat Level | Wired.com
from the probably-too-late dept
Group Of Prominent Law Professors Urge President Obama To Halt ACTA Endorsement | Techdirt
from the as-required-under-the-constitution dept As we noted in our post about people just discovering ACTA this week, some had put together an odd White House petition , asking the White House to "end ACTA."
New Petition Asks White House To Submit ACTA To The Senate For Ratification | Techdirt
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Loz Kaye, Leader, Pirate Party UK Yesterday the European Union, the UK and over 20 other countries signed the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
ACTA - the latest threat to internet freedom, just signed by the EU - Pirate Party UK
Did Obama break constitutional law by signing the ACTA treaty?
Here at The Inquisitr we have been covering the whole SOPA, PIPA, and the Blackout of the Web but even before those two extremely flawed bills surfaced we were covering the international treaty commonly referred to by ACTA, even though all the trade organizations (funded by the entertainment industry) did their best to keep secret.from the not-how-to-do-things dept