Oracle of ONE1 » politics http://dvector.com/oracle Obscure words of unity Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:25:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) http://dvector.com/oracle/2009/01/30/anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement-acta/ http://dvector.com/oracle/2009/01/30/anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement-acta/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:53:32 +0000 one1 http://dvector.com/oracle/?p=198 The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a broadly written, extensive and secretly negotiated agreement currently being worked on by the US, European Community, Japan, and others. The stated goal of ACTA is to create a new standard of intellectual property enforcement beyond the existing standards and to increase international cooperation, including the sharing of information between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies. Negotiations are expected to continue for much of 2009.

Based upon documents that have been leaked into the public domain, ACTA is expected to cover for more than just counterfeit products. In fact, one of the focuses seems to be upon copyright and intellectual property to the point of targeting “Internet distribution and information technology”. This is definitely something that should be publicly negotiated to involve the full range of philosophies on these issues.

Instead, it seems we need to be concerned about our privacy rights and civil liberties. The original hope of negotiation supporters was to seal the deal in 2008. Fortunately that has not happened. Now your opinion about the benefits or drawbacks of such a treaty may differ than mine. In fact, I urge you to look into the details and make up your own mind.

Oh, wait. You can’t. AND THAT IS THE POINT!

Please urge your elected representative to push for transparency on this issue.

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  1. Welcome
  2. Election information
  3. Why you
  4. Biography (your story)
  5. Issues
  6. Donations
  7. Volunteer
  8. Other ways to help
  9. Email list
  10. Bulk emailer
  11. Events
  12. Endorsements
  13. Local News
  14. RSS News feed
  15. Speeches
  16. News releases
  17. Campaign disclosures
  18. Contact us

These additional features may be included on a campaign site:

  1. Surveys
  2. Blog
  3. Photo gallery
  4. Calendar
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