Global Digital Civil Liberties: EFA’s Key Role
This guest post is written by Gwen Hinze, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, for our series of blog posts on the importance of online civil liberties as part of EFA’s 2010 Fundraising Campaign … The Internet enables access to knowledge and new opportunities for freedom of expression for all the world’s citizens. Digital communications technologies […]
ACTA internet chapter leaked
Michael Geist is reporting that the text of the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) chapter on internet enforcement has been leaked. As suspected, the text is unlikely to require major changes to Australian law, but it does do two very concerning things: Increased pressure on intermediaries (ISPs) to monitor and police their networks: in the […]
ACTA negotiations underway; background information from Michael Geist
The negotiations for the ACTA, the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, are underway in Mexico this week, and there’s been a lot of coverage around the world of the lack of transparency in these talks. For those who are not familiar with the agreement, I want to recommend Michael Geist’s excellent five part ACTA Guide: The […]
Next round of ACTA negotiations, Mexico: still no transparency in sight
The next round of negotiations on the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) are due to begin this week in Guadalajara, Mexico. On the agenda this week are civil copyright measures, border measures, internet enforcement measures, and, very briefly, the issue of the lack of transparency in the negotiations. While much of the text is hidden […]
Joel Tenenbaum and the $25,000 songs
I spoke on Sunrise this morning about Joel Tenenbaum’s case in the US; a young university student who will now pay around three quarters of a million Australian dollars in damages to four record labels after a judge upheld a jury decision that could’ve maxed out at $4.5m USD. Joel’s case is terrifying, only the […]