U.S. defends cybercrime treaty
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US defends cybercrime treaty
US defends cybercrime treaty
04/24/2004 06:17 AMYour secrets are safe with us
U.S. Considering Ratifying Cybercrime
Treaty
U.S. Considering Ratifying Cybercrime
Treaty
04/25/2004 07:25 PMSenate debates cybercrime treaty
Senate debates cybercrime treaty
06/18/2004 09:27 AMPrivacy 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 PMPresident George W. Bush asks the United States Senate to ratify the
first international cybercrime treaty.
Broadcast Treaty negotiations (day 2/3)
Broadcast Treaty negotiations (day 2/3)
06/08/2004 12:31 PMWe'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 governments mull over treaty
EU governments mull over treaty
05/17/2004 03:08 AMGovernments in the European Union enter a key phase in negotiations
for a new constitutional treaty.
EU in disarray over treaty freeze
EU in disarray over treaty freeze
06/17/2005 03:21 PMThree more EU countries postpone votes on the ill-fated EU
constitution as the bloc faces an uncertain future.
Kyoto treaty dead
Kyoto treaty dead
12/03/2003 02:57 AMAlthough the US has received most of the flak for not ratifying the
Kyoto treaty, it is Russia that has...
"Christianity bedevils talks on EU
treaty"
"Christianity bedevils talks on EU
treaty"
05/27/2004 09:13 AMFirst-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 PMI'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.
LinkMalawi fears over tobacco treaty
Malawi fears over tobacco treaty
09/25/2004 11:56 PMMalawi, one of the biggest producers of tobacco, is coming under
pressure to sign a treaty limiting production.
Look Inside A PC-killing WIPO Treaty
Look Inside A PC-killing WIPO Treaty
06/09/2004 05:40 PMBroadcast Treaty Battle Rages On
Broadcast Treaty Battle Rages On
08/28/2004 06:11 AMWired News Aug 28 2004 9:42AM GMT
How (not) to negotiate an intellectual
property treaty
How (not) to negotiate an intellectual
property treaty
11/11/2003 09:18 AMThe 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.
60k PDF
LinkUN Discusses New Internet Copyright
Treaty
UN Discusses New Internet Copyright
Treaty
11/07/2003 07:43 AMVOA Nov 7 2003 7:23AM ET
Britons to get Europe treaty vote
Britons to get Europe treaty vote
04/18/2004 10:57 PMPlans to give the public a vote on the European Union constitution are
to be unveiled, the BBC learns.
U.N. Approves Global Nuclear Treaty (AP)
U.N. Approves Global Nuclear Treaty (AP)
04/13/2005 11:25 AMAP - 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.
UK shelves EU treaty vote plans
UK shelves EU treaty vote plans
06/05/2005 11:31 PMMinisters abandon plans for a spring referendum on whether the UK
should ratify the EU constitution.
U.N. delays treaty on human cloning
U.N. delays treaty on human cloning
11/07/2003 09:59 AMglobetechnology.com Nov 7 2003 9:19AM ET
Treaty casts shadow on Webcast rights
Treaty casts shadow on Webcast rights
11/06/2003 02:46 PMA 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 PMThe
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!
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.
Link
Canada eyes world treaty to deal with
spammers
Canada eyes world treaty to deal with
spammers
05/12/2004 05:15 PMCanada'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.
"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 PMWIPO Broadcast Treaty Creates New Legal
Rights for Broadcasters
WIPO Broadcast Treaty Creates New Legal
Rights for Broadcasters
06/08/2004 05:00 PMTreasury 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 AMU.S. Treasury May 21 2004 12:39PM GMT
The new face of cybercrime
The new face of cybercrime
07/20/2004 06:23 AMComputer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker says the rise of the
professional hacker means the IT world must unlearn lessons from the
old era of hacker vandalism.
UK to review cybercrime law
UK to review cybercrime law
04/27/2004 11:46 AMCNN Apr 27 2004 3:48PM GMT
Cybercrime Spins Out Of Control
Cybercrime Spins Out Of Control
09/22/2004 02:20 PMCybercrime A Worldwide Headache
Cybercrime A Worldwide Headache
09/19/2004 11:09 PMCBS News Sep 20 2004 3:02AM GMT
UK to Review Pre-Web Era Cybercrime Law
(Reuters)
UK to Review Pre-Web Era Cybercrime Law
(Reuters)
04/27/2004 04:41 AMReuters - Britain is to update its lone cybercrime
law, a 1990 pre-Web relic widely regarded as inadequate to deal
with growing computer criminality.
Police to become masters of cybercrime
Police to become masters of cybercrime
06/03/2004 03:26 PMZDNet UK Jun 3 2004 6:04PM GMT
Cybercrime Mobs Revealed
Cybercrime Mobs Revealed
03/17/2005 03:07 AMBaseline has a great series of articles on the
different cybercrimes and how they operate. They talk about who are
these cyber criminals and what the law enforcement agencies are doing
to stop them. The articles are well written and I am certain you will
learn something from reading them.
Crime is now organized on the Internet.
Operating in the anonymity of cyberspace, Web mobs with names like
Shadowcrew and stealthdivision are building networks that help
crackers and phishers, money launderers and fences skim off some of
the billions that travel through the Web every day.
The players and their games change so quickly it's hard
to piece together who they are and how they work together. But that
picture's becoming more clear, as the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI and
other law-enforcement agencies crack open the networks and prosecute
those that run them.
UK Wants To Update Cybercrime Laws
UK Wants To Update Cybercrime Laws
06/30/2004 01:07 PMOver in the UK, they've realized that
it's about
time they updated some of their cybercrime laws. This makes
sense, since most computer crime laws are pretty much out of date, but
since so few politicians seem to really understand technology, the
fear is that any update may make things worse. Already, the report
mentioned in the article recommends increasing jail time for
"hackers." That may be good or it may not be, but just using the
generic term "hackers" is a bad sign. The problem isn't with hackers,
but it should be focused on what crime (if any) they've really
committed. The report does note that the police do need to be better
trained in how to deal with computer crimes, and that certainly makes
sense. Still, politicians and computer crime laws seem to have a very
bad history together, and it's unlikely this time will be any
different. The problem is usually that the politicians don't
understand cybercrime, and thus, they over-react to it. Until a new
generation of tech savvy individuals gets elected to office, this is
going to be an ongoing problem.
Punishment fails to fit the cybercrime
Punishment fails to fit the cybercrime
08/19/2004 05:33 AMZDNet UK Aug 19 2004 10:13AM GMT
Is password-lending a cybercrime?
Is password-lending a cybercrime?
03/08/2004 11:14 PMCybercrime hitting the UK hard
Cybercrime hitting the UK hard
04/05/2005 12:11 PMZDNet UK Apr 5 2005 2:41PM GMT
Microsoft to help police on cybercrime
Microsoft to help police on cybercrime
03/31/2005 07:21 AMZDNet UK Mar 31 2005 10:55AM GMT
Cops get cybercrime help from Microsoft
Cops get cybercrime help from Microsoft
03/30/2005 04:55 PMProgram will develop analytical tools to help international police
forces fight phishing and other crimes.
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