[governance] Fwd: Why do US and EU trade negotiators hate the Berne Copyright Limitations and Exceptions? | Knowledge Ecology International

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net>wrote:

> Hi, is there an internet governance angle to this that I somehow missed?
>
> --srs (iPad)
>

Th WGIG 2005 Report identified Intellectual Property as an Internet
Governance thematic area. See page 7:

"*23. Intellectual property rights (IPR)*
*Application of intellectual property rights to cyberspace.*
• 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."

 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.

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.

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.

There are many links that you can go to see the link between IP and the
Internet and here are just three:

http://www.cisco.com/web/about/gov/issues/ip_rights.html
https://www.eff.org/search/site/Trans%20Pacific%20partnership
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121011_perspective_on_verisign_patent_application_on_domain_transfers/



> On 20-Feb-2013, at 18:57, riaz.tayob at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Using a treaty for the blind to push 3 strikes..
> >
> >> http://keionline.org/node/1655
>
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