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<font face="Verdana">When I hear a lot of talk about the need of
distributed IG under the enhanced cooperation (EC) rubric I really
do not fully understand what is meant. The only legitimate
distributed IG I know is of technical governance of the Internet -
about which neither I have much problem with the status quo nor
tunis agenda admits it under EC rubris. EC is about two things -
'oversight issue' and general public policy issues related to the
Internet, neither of which is currently decentralised or
distributed, nor I have heard any mechanism being suggested for
decentralised/ distributed IG in these areas..... This really
confuses me, especially since so many civil society contributions
against WGEC questionnaire has suggested distributed governance
without clarity about what it is really.<br>
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Now, the only sense in which I can see IG related to larger public
policy issues being distributed is in it taking place in processes
like TPP below, or in London-Budapest- Seoul cyber conference
series, OECD, CoE and so on..... And that variety is of course not
at all globally legitimate - apart from being closed, non
transparent, non multistakeholder and so on...<br>
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I think there is a need to first bring more clarity to the terms of
debate of this important discussion on the needed changes in global
IG...<br>
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parminder <br>
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On Friday 15 November 2013 05:33 PM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Incredible, TPP recreates the same ACTA secretive plot played and
replayed by supposedly democratic governments. Neelie Kroes wrote last
year (according to Wikipedia):
"We have recently seen how many thousands of people are willing to
protest against rules which they see as constraining the openness and
innovation of the Internet. This is a strong new political voice. And as
a force for openness, I welcome it, even if I do not always agree with
everything it says on every subject. We are now likely to be in a world
without SOPA and without ACTA. Now we need to find solutions to make the
Internet a place of freedom, openness, and innovation fit for all
citizens, not just for the techno avant-garde."
Unlikely, Neelie, unlikely... This is driven by a giant multisectoral
trillion-dollar IPR machine led by the USA with heavy European
involvement affecting nearly all of our rights worldwide, and it will
not stop.
In our region, Mexico, wishing to be nice in the picture with the USA
and being more royalist than the king, proposes in the TPP that
copyrights last for a century instead of 70 years after death of the author.
Frankly, I do not understand Peru's Ollanta Humala involved in this.
So it goes...
--c.a.
On 11/15/2013 09:42 AM, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Reminder. Already signaled by Michael Gurstein.
Wikileaks’ Release Of TPP Chapter On IP Blows Open Secret Trade Negotiation
By William New, Intellectual Property Watch
For years, the United States and partner governments have worked vigorously
to keep the publics they represent from knowing what they are negotiating
behind closed doors in the top-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership trade
agreement. But today’s Wikileaks release of the draft intellectual property
chapter blew that up, confirming the fears of public interest groups that
this is an agreement heavily weighted toward big industry interests.
“If instituted, the TPP’s IP regime would trample over individual rights
and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and
creative commons,” WikiLeaks’ Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange said in a
release. “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or
invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be
ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”
. . .
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/11/13/wikileaks-release-of-tpp-chapter-on-ip-blows-open-secret-trade-negotiation/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts">http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/11/13/wikileaks-release-of-tpp-chapter-on-ip-blows-open-secret-trade-negotiation/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wikileaks.org/tpp/pressrelease.html">https://wikileaks.org/tpp/pressrelease.html</a>
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Hopefully TTP will take SOPA's trail.
The next battlefield,
TTIP<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.euintheus.org/press-media/vice-president-viviane-reding-in-washington-spoke-about-the-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-and-data-protection/"><http://www.euintheus.org/press-media/vice-president-viviane-reding-in-washington-spoke-about-the-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-and-data-protection/></a>,
shall put the EU Commission on a hot seat.
Louis
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