[governance] FW: [Dewayne-Net] EU & US Negotiators Looking To Hold Blind & Deaf Access Rights Hostage To Get A New ACTA/SOPA

[michael gurstein]

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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] EU & US Negotiators Looking To Hold Blind & Deaf
Access Rights Hostage To Get A New ACTA/SOPA

EU & US Negotiators Looking To Hold Blind & Deaf Access Rights Hostage To
Get A New ACTA/SOPA from the sad dept By Mike Masnick Oct 23, 2012
<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121020/23344420778/eu-us-negotiators-loo
king-to-hold-blind-deaf-access-rights-hostage-to-get-new-actasopa.shtml>

We already talked about how US officials have been working against a treaty
to allow more access to copyrighted works for the disabled, but the latest
report from Jamie Love highlights an even more nefarious part of the
strategy. To hold the agreement hostage in order to backdoor in certain
elements of ACTA/SOPA. This is mainly being led by the EU, but with support
from the US. And the main part is putting lots of red tape around any
exceptions -- and tying it to more standardized enforcement, which is what
ACTA was really all about:

The European Union primarily, but with some backing from the US government,
is holding blind people's access hostage in and effort to introduce new
global enforcement norms for copyright. If you look at most copyright
exceptions in most countries, the system works as follows. If the exception
applies, an activity is not considered infringement. If you do something
that is not protected by the exception, you are infringing, and all sorts of
bad things can happen, depending upon your national laws for infringement,
which include both criminal and civil sanctions. That is how the US
exceptions work for blind persons, and that's how nearly all national
exceptions work for blind persons. But here at WIPO, the EU wants page after
page of detailed regulation of anyone who uses an exception. The expanding
verbiage of the agreement is almost entirely about introducing ACTA and SOPA
like enforcement provisions into this agreement.

We've already seen the EU try to backdoor ACTA provisions in elsewhere, so
it should come as little surprise that it would also seek to abuse a treaty
to help the disabled to get to the same point as well. Shameful, but not
surprising. 

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