Britons to get Europe treaty vote

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UK shelves EU treaty vote plans

UK shelves EU treaty vote plans 06/05/2005 11:31 PM
Ministers abandon plans for a spring referendum on whether the UK should ratify the EU constitution.

Militants in Europe Openly Call for
Jihad and the Rule of Islam---In this
former industrial town north of London,
a small group of young Britons whose
parents emigrated from Pakistan after
World War II

Militants in Europe Openly Call for
Jihad and the Rule of Islam---In this
former industrial town north of London,
a small group of young Britons whose
parents emigrated from Pakistan after
World War II 04/27/2004 01:56 AM
OK peacenicks, how do you propose dealingwith this?

nytimes.com/2004/04/26/international/europe/26EURO.html?hp
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Incumbent Parties Set Back in
Europe-Wide Vote (washingtonpost.com)

Incumbent Parties Set Back in
Europe-Wide Vote (washingtonpost.com) 06/13/2004 09:23 PM
washingtonpost.com - BARCELONA, June 13 -- Voters across Europe severely rebuked many incumbent governments in elections in 25 countries for seats in the European Parliament, early returns and exit polls showed Sunday evening.

""the GOP is already calling a vote for
Democrats a vote for bin Laden (or if
you prefer, a vote for Hitler).""

""the GOP is already calling a vote for
Democrats a vote for bin Laden (or if
you prefer, a vote for Hitler)."" 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

U.S. defends cybercrime treaty

U.S. defends cybercrime treaty 04/25/2004 09:54 PM

EU governments mull over treaty

EU governments mull over treaty 05/17/2004 03:08 AM
Governments in the European Union enter a key phase in negotiations for a new constitutional treaty.

U.S. Considering Ratifying Cybercrime
Treaty

U.S. Considering Ratifying Cybercrime
Treaty 04/25/2004 07:25 PM

Kyoto treaty dead

Kyoto treaty dead 12/03/2003 02:57 AM
Although the US has received most of the flak for not ratifying the Kyoto treaty, it is Russia that has...

US defends cybercrime treaty

US defends cybercrime treaty 04/24/2004 06:17 AM
Your secrets are safe with us

Broadcast Treaty negotiations (day 2/3)

Broadcast Treaty negotiations (day 2/3) 06/08/2004 12:31 PM
We've just wrapped up the second day of Broadcast Treaty negotations at the UN in Geneva, and once again, two colleagues and I took really extensive notes on the proceeding. Brazil and India gave amazing testimony today, and I was able to address the UN on DRM -- it was screamingly cool. We did a lot more editorializing today -- it's still hard to follow, but damn this is important. If we lose here, it's a disaster for the Internet and the PC.

* Brazil

- Article 5: National Treatment. We favor alternative J, irrespective of whether we agree on some kind of redefinition of the term "national." We reserve the right to come back -- possible at a future meeting -- to the issue of the rights conferred to the beneficiaries under the treaty.

[ed: note Brazilian implication that this business shouldn't be concluded at this session]

- Concentrate on Article 16, Technical Protection Measures [ed: AKA DRM]. Brazil is concerned with proposed inclusion of TPMs in proposed new treaty. Aware that similar provisions are in WCT and WPPT, but it's important to recall that those treaties were negotiated and adopted when there was little awareness regarding potential implications of use of TPMs. Since then, some years have gone by, and there's a growing widespread awareness that use of such measures can be quite detrimental to rights of consumers and public at large. Significant concern that anticircumvention has significant negative for exercise of rights exceptions and limitations in national laws. Important obstacle to access of public to public domain materia.

Inconsistent with necessary free flow of info so important to encourage innovation and creativity in the digital environment. All of Art 16 counters stated objectives of new treaty as referred to in preamble. Para recognizes need to maintain balance between rights of broadcasters and larger public interest.

This entire article should believe this entire article should be deleted from the text. Other delegates argue that e fact that we have these provisions in WCT and WPPTY mean that we should include them in this treaty. We disagree. Not pertinent to rights of broadcasting organizations.

[ed. Brazil is very courageous. -dt]

[ed. See EFF's Unintended Consequences report for some of the specific harms from adopting anticircumvention to which Brazil alludes. Brazil recognizes that previous treaties offer opportunity to learn from mistakes, not just blindly follow existing language. -ws]

[ed This is the best statement I've ever heard at a WIPO session. -cd]

Chairman: Access to information is near to my heart as well. This is not intended to cover DRM that locks up public domain material. If an industry or entity does this, then TPM protection shouldn't be available and circumvention should be lawful.

[ed. Since broadcasting isn't copyright, though, there's a wide range of new material locked up by new rights for broadcasters. Otherwise, there's no need for a treaty at all, since copyright and licensing of copyrights can cover the field. -ws]

[ed. It's a nice theory, but the DMCA enthusiastically covers the uncopyrightable, the public domain, and things that really shouldn't be thought of as copyright, like the way that garage door owners work or the secret of refilling a printer cart -cd]

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EU in disarray over treaty freeze

EU in disarray over treaty freeze 06/17/2005 03:21 PM
Three more EU countries postpone votes on the ill-fated EU constitution as the bloc faces an uncertain future.

"Christianity bedevils talks on EU
treaty"

"Christianity bedevils talks on EU
treaty" 05/27/2004 09:13 AM

U.N. delays treaty on human cloning

U.N. delays treaty on human cloning 11/07/2003 09:59 AM
globetechnology.com Nov 7 2003 9:19AM ET

Look Inside A PC-killing WIPO Treaty

Look Inside A PC-killing WIPO Treaty 06/09/2004 05:40 PM

UN Discusses New Internet Copyright
Treaty

UN Discusses New Internet Copyright
Treaty 11/07/2003 07:43 AM
VOA Nov 7 2003 7:23AM ET

First-ever look inside a WIPO treaty
negotiation (day 1 of 3)

First-ever look inside a WIPO treaty
negotiation (day 1 of 3) 06/07/2004 01:41 PM
I'm at the World Intellectual Property Organization's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, along with the largest-ever public-interest coalition in WIPO history, We've all come to oppose the Broadcast Treaty (which will make the Web illegal and require the world's governments to mandate the design everything that can receive a signal, from a PC to a radio) and the proposed Database Treaty (which would let people who'd amassed public, uncopyrightable facts turn them into their exlusive property).

There's no transparency into this process for most of the world. The doors are locked, the minutes are sealed, and you need to be accredited just to sit in the room.

There's no connectivity in the room, but by publishing and using an ad-hoc WiFi network in the main room, three of us (me, my cow-orker Wendy Seltzer, and David Tannenbaum from the Union for the Public Domain) were able to collaborate on note-taking on the first half-day's session using SubEthaEdit, the brilliant and unique Mac app.

The speaking style at these events is "diplomatic" --slow, formal and thick with coded and subtle messages. Between the three of us we were able to untangle some of the speech and tease out some analysis. I think that our point-form notes are a really good, comprehensive view of the meeting.

* Brazil: We've been at this for ages. No real and substantive discussions have taken place. There's no clear understanding of the potential economic and social impact of database protection. A study that was comissioned by WIPO on database copying in Latin America indicated from the Latin American perspective that regulation is premature. It's detrimental to innovation, science, education, access, etc., particularily in developing countries. In the light of this we want to question the usefulness and convenience of maintaining this on the agenda. This isn't unfinished business, the lacklustre engagement of the committee tells us that this is business we don't want to engage in, and this gets in the way of other business we might choose to address. We ask to have this permanently deleted from the agenda.

* ALA: The database protection issue in US Congress is significantly controversial, highly unlikely to pass in this Congress. Agree with Brazil, let's take this off the table here. Congress called this a "Solution in search of a problem" -- there's more databases than ever, why do we need this. We don't see a consensus or a need for protection.

* Ecuador: On behalf of Latin American and Caribbean group, I would like to make a general statement. We don't think that this should be on the agenda now.

* India: Should everyone who produces work by sweat of the brow come here for protection? This isn't creative labour. There's no allegation of widespread copying of non-original databases. Even if there were, the question relevant for this organization is whether this body should be considering nonoriginal databases. Where there's no creativity, databases are assets; that's the apporpriate concern to address by misappropriation, but not intellectual property. Perhaps soem other rubric, some other forum is appropriate. Many entities need protection of sweat of brow assets but we shouldn't have all of them approaching WIPO for a remedy.

If EU wants to protect nonoriginal databases, EU can. It's important to leave industry space to develop. at this stage, we need a more careful learning process, not laws that inhibit industry rather than facilitate. Database protection is premature now. Even in long term, it may not be appropriate for WIPO. We recommend the issue be deleted from the Standing Committee's agenda.

* US delegation: We think that this should remain on the agenda. We need to exchange more information about what this is and how it works where it's been adopted.

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U.N. Approves Global Nuclear Treaty (AP)

U.N. Approves Global Nuclear Treaty (AP) 04/13/2005 11:25 AM
AP - The U.N. General Assembly approved a global treaty Wednesday aimed at preventing nuclear terrorism by making it a crime for would-be terrorists to possess or threaten to use nuclear material.

How (not) to negotiate an intellectual
property treaty

How (not) to negotiate an intellectual
property treaty 11/11/2003 09:18 AM
The Consumer Project on Technology is hosting a workshop in Miami on negotiating intellectual property provisions in free trade agreements. IP treaties have become the hot way for the US to strong-arm the rest of the world into giving it control over medicine, culture and industry abroad, and the CPTech group have the best ongoing advice for keeping your country from becoming a US client-state:

The goal of the workshop is to provide negotiators participating in the development of FTA's with a useful "toolkit" of information about basic IP law concepts; the IP provisions of various concluded and proposed FTA's; the implications of those provisions for cultural, scientific, and economic development; and the possible alternatives. In the course of the day, experts from South and North South America will participate in a series of topically organized panels on various IP topics, leading up to a general discussion of negotiating goals and strategies. The workshop will offer a wide range of perspectives on this important topic, along with an opportunity for the exchange of views among participants.

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Senate debates cybercrime treaty

Senate debates cybercrime treaty 06/18/2004 09:27 AM
Privacy advocates oppose the measure on the grounds that it would promote "invasive investigative techniques."

Bush pushes for cybercrime treaty

Bush pushes for cybercrime treaty 11/18/2003 05:33 PM
President George W. Bush asks the United States Senate to ratify the first international cybercrime treaty.

Broadcast Treaty Battle Rages On

Broadcast Treaty Battle Rages On 08/28/2004 06:11 AM
Wired News Aug 28 2004 9:42AM GMT

Malawi fears over tobacco treaty

Malawi fears over tobacco treaty 09/25/2004 11:56 PM
Malawi, one of the biggest producers of tobacco, is coming under pressure to sign a treaty limiting production.

Treaty casts shadow on Webcast rights

Treaty casts shadow on Webcast rights 11/06/2003 02:46 PM
A U.N committee OKs the world's first Webcasting treaty, the terms of which could make it harder for people to rebroadcast shows and films in the public domain, critics say.

WIPO Broadcast Treaty: consolidated
three-day notes

WIPO Broadcast Treaty: consolidated
three-day notes 06/09/2004 01:52 PM
The Broadcast Treaty is a proposal from a WIPO Subcommittee that's supposedly about stopping "signal theft." But along the way, this proposal has turned into a huge, convoluted hairball that threatens to make the PC illegal, trash the public domain, break copyleft and put a Broadcast Flag on the Internet. The treaty negotiation process is unbelievably convoluted and hard-to-follow, and they've just wrapped up the latest round in Geneva. But for the first time, a really large group of "civil society" orgs were accredited to attend. Me and another EFF staffer and the Coordinator of the Union for the Public Domain created a heavily editorialized impressionistic transcript of the meeting (EFF mirror, UPD mirror), trying to untie the knots in the negotiation. This is the first time that a really exhaustive peek inside a WIPO treaty negotiation has ever been published -- get it while it's legal!

"A vote for Bush is a vote for a
divided, unstable, paranoid America"

"A vote for Bush is a vote for a
divided, unstable, paranoid America" 08/05/2004 05:00 AM
Baby, we were born to run against Bush More than 20 artists, including Bruce Springsteen, the Dave Matthews Band, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, James Taylor and the Dixie Chicks, announced the launch of a ``Vote For Change'' tour yesterday. "A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America,'' Dave Matthews said in one of the more strongly worded statement....

"Iraq concedes that anyone the
insurgents don't want to vote won't get
to vote in the upcoming elections, as
Mr. Rumsfeld said and Mr. Allawi either
does or doesn't agree to and Mr.
Armitage denied"

"Iraq concedes that anyone the
insurgents don't want to vote won't get
to vote in the upcoming elections, as
Mr. Rumsfeld said and Mr. Allawi either
does or doesn't agree to and Mr.
Armitage denied" 09/27/2004 02:37 AM

Canada eyes world treaty to deal with
spammers

Canada eyes world treaty to deal with
spammers 05/12/2004 05:15 PM
Canada's Industry minister, Lucienne Robillard, said there's a pressing need for an international effort, perhaps a treaty, that could include the extradition of suspected large-scale spammers.

Broadcast Treaty status-report in Wired
News

Broadcast Treaty status-report in Wired
News 08/28/2004 08:12 AM
Cory Doctorow: Wendy Grossman has written a good overview of the Broadcast Treaty proceedings at WIPO for Wired News -- this is a treaty that EFF is fighting, which would allow broadcasters to control what you and others do with their broadcasts regardless of whether those broadcasts contain public-domain or uncopyrightable material:

Cory Doctorow, the London-based European Affairs Coordinator for the EFF, highlights two additional sources of worry. First, the US, represented in Geneva by the Patent Office, is demanding that the treaty include webcasting. If that proposal should pass, broadcast rights could apply to anything downloaded from any Web site, making it impossible to be sure whether even open-source software wasn't covered.

Second, Doctorow said, one proposal in the draft treaty requires that receivers, defined as any device that can decrypt broadcasts, must incorporate technology to protect those broadcasts. As currently drafted, he believes that would include general-purpose computers.

That clause in the draft treaty echoes recent US legislation that introduced the "broadcast flag," a technical control that must be implemented by July 1, 2005 for all devices for sales in the US that receive television signals.

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"Lawyers told Bush treaty banning
torture didn't restrict him "

"Lawyers told Bush treaty banning
torture didn't restrict him " 06/08/2004 08:23 PM

WIPO Broadcast Treaty Creates New Legal
Rights for Broadcasters

WIPO Broadcast Treaty Creates New Legal
Rights for Broadcasters 06/08/2004 05:00 PM

Treasury Releases Technical
Clarification Relating to U.S.-Japan
Income Tax Treaty

Treasury Releases Technical
Clarification Relating to U.S.-Japan
Income Tax Treaty 05/21/2004 08:33 AM
U.S. Treasury May 21 2004 12:39PM GMT

Vote for a real change, vote ...For
Dummies!

Vote for a real change, vote ...For
Dummies! 05/05/2004 10:48 PM
Sunday Times South Africa May 6 2004 3:26AM GMT

A vote for kotte.org is actually a vote
for kottke.org (and freedom!)

A vote for kotte.org is actually a vote
for kottke.org (and freedom!) 12/07/2003 04:57 AM
Best Overall Blog? .. decidedly liberal

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Britons cannot live without their PCs

Britons cannot live without their PCs 09/13/2004 08:56 AM
itv.com Sep 13 2004 12:54PM GMT

Vote for this bill. Or vote for Pedro.

Vote for this bill. Or vote for Pedro. 04/12/2005 05:04 PM
Idaho House Resolution 29 WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Legislature of the State of Idaho who choose to vote "Nay" on this concurrent resolution are "FREAKIN' IDIOTS!" I wish all legislation were worded this way.

Britons go 'toothing' for sex with
strangers

Britons go 'toothing' for sex with
strangers 04/21/2004 02:13 PM

Britons die in Saudi gun attack

Britons die in Saudi gun attack 05/01/2004 03:51 PM
Two Britons are among six shot dead by gunmen in an attack on the offices of a Western firm in Saudi Arabia.

Britons die in outback air crash

Britons die in outback air crash 08/30/2004 10:28 AM
Two British tourists in their 60s are killed when their light aircraft crashes in a wilderness park in Australia.

Britons attack US cloning ban bid

Britons attack US cloning ban bid 08/29/2004 06:05 PM
Britain's Royal Society is backing a campaign to stop the US securing a world ban on all forms of human cloning.
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