ACTA

Reactie

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ACTA leans heavily on the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which itself leans on the 1971 Berne Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works - how can a 1971 document still be relevant in this digital world? Especially when ACTA for at least a third concerns software piracy. Not only the medium but also the way the inhabitants of the world percieve it (as opposed to large corporations) has changed. In order to guarantee your IP you need to spend vast amounts of money, thus favouring the large IP companies at the expense of the smaller IP companies.

There is a lot said about sharing information between signatories and parties, without any mention of how this information is going to be safeguarded.

This document will stifle innovation in any country that uses it and put unprecedented power into the hands of 'rights holders' who can perform all kinds of mayhem without legal process, as well as turning ISPs into monitors, spies and judges, which they aren't.

All these problems combine to make this an unnacceptable document.

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