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And thus, our true colours reveal. Since Obama was the young newcomer, technically savvy, many of us were hoping that he might support patent and/or copyright reform. In case our story earlier on this subject didn't already tip you off, this certainly will: Obama has sided squarely with the RIAA/MPAA lobby, and backs ACTA . No copyright and/or patent reform for you, American citizens! Obama made the remarks in a speech at the Export-Import Bank's annual conference in Washington. "We're going to aggressively protect our intellectual property," Obama said in his speech, "Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people [...]
Obama Sides with RIAA, MPAA; Backs ACTA
Alerted in part by your letters and calls , Senators have begun to express concern over the secrecy and content of ACTA , while the MPAA , RIAA and other established groups rush to reassure them that ACTA — while of course they know nothing of its actual content — will be good for business and that "transparency is a distraction" . Once again, it seems like one incumbent subset of the tech, content, and communications sector is banging the drum for ACTA while claiming to speak for creators, consumers, and everyone else affected in those large and increasingly diverse industries. Meanwhile, from within the negotiations, it seems that the US proposals for an Internet chapter did not receive instant assent from other countries. Inside US Trade ( for-pay article here ) reports that the negotiators may not have successfully settled on a text for the Internet chapter of ACTA:
The Distraction of Transparency: an ACTA News Roundup | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Amazing! We smashed our 2 million target as we delivered to key decision-makers in Brussels this week -- let's get to 3 million before the crucial parliamentary debates Posted: 25 January 2012 Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! --- but there is an even bigger threat out there, and our global movement for freedom online is perfectly poised to kill it for good. ACTA - a global treaty - could allow corporations to censor the Internet.
ACTA: The new threat to the net
How to act against ACTA - La Quadrature du Net
Contacting your Elected Representatives is the most useful thing you can do right now, and until the final vote in the European Parliament. To get a clear view of the parliamentary process, visit our page ACTA: Procedure in the European Parliament . We need to act at each step of the parliamentary process in the European Parliament. Each of these steps is an occasion for us to make ourselves heard against ACTA. To be informed about the next steps to urge Members of the European Parliament to reject ACTA, send a blank email to NOtoACTA-subscribe@laquadrature.net to subscribe to our list (we won't use your email for anything else).