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ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is the notorious, unprecedented secret copyright treaty that was negotiated by industry representatives and government trade reps, without any access by elected representatives, independent business, the press, public interest groups, legal scholars, independent economists and so on. Time and again, the world’s richest governmental administrations (only rich countries were in the negotiation) told their own parliaments and congresses that they could not see what was in the treaty, nor know the details of the discussion.
The European Parliament was one of the bodies that asked its administration to share the treaty discussions with the elected members, only to be turned down. Cables in the Wikileaks dumps showed US officials orchestrating this secrecy because they knew how unpopular this one-sided, heavy-handed copyright treaty would be. Freedom of Information requests to the Obama administration confirmed that the reason for the secrecy was the experience in transparent negotiation at the UN, which resulted in an uprising by developing nations, who saw stricter, more expansive copyrights as a means of extracting rents from the world’s poorest people.
Letter To You (STOP SOPA and PIPA)
I am a fellow Blogger, that writes this post hoping to get your attention. I urge you as my reader to really look what SOPA and PIPA can do to you! If PIPA and SOPA act passes this will be the start of a very agressive censorship to any type of artistic expression. I speak of myself that I am an Aspiring Filmmaker, who hopes that one day with the help of the Internet I can fulfill my dream job as a working media creator or filmmaker.
If we start censoring artistic expressions through out the Internet this gives power to those giant corporations to shape up this country and take control of our freedom.
If this bill passes… people’s artistic expression will be taken away. Because of big corporations that are failing to innovate and move forward to bring what the audience wants. Just imagine a future where cinema and television can not compete with creative people or discover creative people on the Internet. This Act will strip future writers from writing an original piece — which piece is original and have the potential to change the world.
And again I urge you to Stop PIPA and the Sopa act by signing a petition to your elected official. Don’t be afraid to give ‘em your opinion.
Sincerely.
If we start censoring artistic expressions through out the Internet this gives power to those giant corporations to shape up this country and take control of our freedom.
If this bill passes… people’s artistic expression will be taken away. Because of big corporations that are failing to innovate and move forward to bring what the audience wants. Just imagine a future where cinema and television can not compete with creative people or discover creative people on the Internet. This Act will strip future writers from writing an original piece — which piece is original and have the potential to change the world.
And again I urge you to Stop PIPA and the Sopa act by signing a petition to your elected official. Don’t be afraid to give ‘em your opinion.
Sincerely.
Victor Gregory
P.S. AWSY.net will be dark tomorrow too! Protesting this outrageous acts.
