ACTA Set To Cover Not Just Copyrights & Trademarks, But Seven Areas Of IP
from the stretching-the-law dept
The folks who created ACTA were already sneaky enough in describing it as an "anti-counterfeiting" agreement, when they knew all along it went way beyond issues related to counterfeiting. For a while, it's been obvious that it was also very much (perhaps more than counterfeiting) about copyright, but it's actually about much more than that. We already mentioned that it is designed to cover patents as well. Now, KEI has looked at another leaked draft document, and notes that the draft sneaks in the fact that it's designed to cover seven different areas of intellectual property. In typical sneaky fashion, it doesn't come out and list them directly, but in the definitions section, defines "intellectual property" as "refers to all categories of intellectual property that are the subject of section 1 through part 7 of Part II of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights." Basically, it's saying that it's accepting the definition in a totally different document, from TRIPs. So, what's in that document?- Copyright and Related Rights
- Trademarks
- Geographical Indications
- Industrial Designs
- Patents
- Layout-Designs (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits
- Protection of Undisclosed Information
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explain why that happened please
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Both Industrial Designs and Layout-Design seem very broad. I thought business patents were bad, but these seem utterly arbitrary and designed to protect the status quo.
How will upstarts be able to innovate when corporations have monopolies not only on their patents, their busines model, their copyrights, and arbitrarily on their designs?!
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Will the wars of the next generation be over "Hey, you infringed on our (bullshit) treaties!"?
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The corporations holding patents, and the governments they controls will sooner or later go up against the people they "server" or "protect".
There are many things that are good to fight for. patents and the right to create *should* not be one of them. it will pointless and all around bloody when it happens.
unless 1984 comes first, then we are all screwed.
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Importantly, the protection provided is very narrow in scope.
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Re: ACTA and IC
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So rejoice MrSonPopo we are one step closer to a world government.
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bait and switch
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Funny you mention that with how big pharma is already able to deny access to generic meds ... very deadly ...
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Also, counterfeiting is essentially a crime against the consumer, who thinks he's buying brand quality, not the company in question (people who can afford Gucci don't buy knock-offs, and vice versa).
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Because they like to bury other pork in the legislation, plus someone's probably going to make a big load of cash off something, somehow.
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Trademark was #2 in the list of 7 things. I think "...how little of that..." describes 1/7 pretty well. Trademark law is well established, and defines what is and is not counterfeit. Mike is pointing out that the ACTA is getting it's definition of IP from a different document that describes IP in 7 terms, 6 of which do not cover counterfeiting goods. They may be related, but counterfeiting is a trademark issue.
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LOL
:-P
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Remember
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What's next?
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If the 20th century was the American century than the 21st century will be the century of the citizen.
"Consumer. There called consumers, not citizens."
I rest my case.
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