<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>In essence, we live in a vast interconnected world and with something like the Internet, there are a plethora of issues that stem from the way that Internet is structured and the various regulatory mechanisms, diverse jurisdictional treatment etc.</div><div><br></div><div>From a global public interest, it is in the interest of civil society to she informed of how various shifts in policies, laws, market behaviour, Internet architecture can affect the ordinary user.</div><div><br></div><div><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Feb 21, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">suresh@hserus.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>The "application to cyberspace" part seems to be missing in that the frameworks being discussed are not specific to online copyright theft. </div><div><br></div><div>Even there, the wgig report does seem to over stretch the igov definition to a considerable extent.<br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 21-Feb-2013, at 0:42, "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" target="_blank">suresh@hserus.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi, is there an internet governance angle to this that I somehow missed?<br>
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--srs (iPad)<br></blockquote><div><br>Th WGIG 2005 Report identified Intellectual Property as an Internet Governance thematic area. See page 7:<br><br><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">"<b>23. Intellectual property rights (IPR)</b><br>
<b>Application of intellectual property rights to cyberspace.</b><br>• While there is agreement on the need for balance between the rights of holders and the rights of users, there are different views on the precise nature of the balance that will be most beneficial to all stakeholders, and whether the current IPR system is adequate to address the new issues posed by cyberspace. On the one hand, intellectual property rights holders are concerned about the high number of infringements, such as digital piracy, and the technologies developed to circumvent protective measures to prevent such infringements; on the other hand, users are concerned about market oligopolies, the impediments to access and use of digital content and the perceived unbalanced."</span><br>
<br> Intellectual Property touches virtually every layer of the Information Infrastructure and layer of Internet Architecture, consider Verisign's Patent Application for Domain Name Transfers and other issues stemming from Digital Rights Management Systems and the use of Piracy Filters.<br>
<br>For human rights advocates, the use of piracy filters can just as easily be used to filter content arbitrarily and where do you draw the line. The criminalization of things like breaking digital locks on software etc.<br>
<br>The threats with the TPP is that there is a massive transition from being mere Traffic providers to policing the internet. The Berne Convention of course is one of the long standing international legal instruments that are widely accepted globally so by extension it is relevant.<br>
<br>There are many links that you can go to see the link between IP and the Internet and here are just three:<br><br><a href="http://www.cisco.com/web/about/gov/issues/ip_rights.html">http://www.cisco.com/web/about/gov/issues/ip_rights.html</a> <br>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/search/site/Trans%20Pacific%20partnership">https://www.eff.org/search/site/Trans%20Pacific%20partnership</a><br><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121011_perspective_on_verisign_patent_application_on_domain_transfers/">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121011_perspective_on_verisign_patent_application_on_domain_transfers/</a><br>
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On 20-Feb-2013, at 18:57, <a href="mailto:riaz.tayob@gmail.com">riaz.tayob@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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> Using a treaty for the blind to push 3 strikes..<br>
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>> <a href="http://keionline.org/node/1655" target="_blank">http://keionline.org/node/1655</a><br>
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