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boingboing.net - 19 days ago
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
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* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any ...

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Notes from Dr. RW:  Will the copyright treaty take us back to Web 1.0?

Mike the Mad Biologist:  Obama's Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Is Not Hopey or Changey

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Will the copyright treaty take us back to Web 1.0?
Notes from Dr. RW — Here's some of what's leaked from secret negotiations to hammer out the treaty, according to Boing Boing: That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability. I have no idea what this really means. Read the rest of the post and the large ...

Obama's Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Is Not Hopey or Changey
Mike the Mad Biologist — ... Over at BoingBoing, we read about the leaked version of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a copyright treaty (so much for the Obama Administration's commitment to transparency. Maybe it's something in the White House water?). Two items caught my eye: ...

News Briefs 06-11-2009
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