[LINK] Action Against the 'Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agmt' (ACTA)

[Rick Welykochy]

Roger Clarke wrote:

> A petition is doing the rounds, endeavouring to force transparency
> and reasonableness on the pro-big-business ACTA initiative.
>
> The web-page renders badly in Safari and Firefox:
> http://publicacta.org.nz/wellington-declaration/

QLD lecturer in law, Kimberlee Weatherall, has written up an analysis
of the provisions emerging from the treaty negotations. Very chilling
effects indeed.

Cover article:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/171910,netizens-how-acta-will-make-a-criminal-of-you.aspx

   "ANALYSIS: The 'Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement' (ACTA) might sound
    like it's aimed exclusively at the crooks selling pirated DVDs at the
    markets, but it's really about curbing the behaviour of individual internet
    users, according to one of Australia's leading legal academics.

    As Government negotiators from 27 nations meet in Wellington, New Zealand
    today for the latest round of ACTA talks, Kimberlee Weatherall, senior
    lecturer in law at the University of Queensland, has released a paper which
    pulls apart the implications of the latest draft text to be leaked from the
    negotiating table.

    Weatherall's 37-page paper - available for download online - has confirmed
    what many had suspected: the ACTA will have serious ramifications for both
    intermediaries such as internet service providers (ISPs) and web hosts, but
    also for the rights of individuals."

Her paper is available for download here, as a PDF:

http://works.bepress.com/kimweatherall/20/

cheers
rickw


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