Why Google, Bing, Yahoo Should Fear ACTA

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @05:44AM from the reason-enough-to-keep-it-secret dept.

littlekorea writes "US intellectual property law expert Jonathan Band has warned that Silicon Valley's search engines, hosting companies, and e-commerce giants have much to fear from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, negotiations for which continued in Switzerland today. The fear for search engines in particular is the erosion of 'fair use' protections and introduction of statutory damages, both of which could lead to more copyright claims from rights holders." The article links a marked-up ACTA draft (PDF) that Band and a coalition of library organizations and rights groups believe is more balanced. Quoting Band: "Our high-level concern is that ACTA does not reflect the balance in US IP law, [which] contains strong protections and strong exceptions. ACTA exports only the strong protections, but not the strong exceptions."

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Fuck it by kyrio · 2010-06-29 05:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'm already -1
1. Re:Fuck it by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-29 06:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  preposterous
2. Re:Fuck it by logjon · 2010-06-29 06:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  The Habbofags are still out for your Karma, eh?
  
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Re:I claim the COPYrights to the letter E! by Lunix+Nutcase · 2010-06-29 05:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The "joke" wasn't funny the first time nor the second time around.
Re:The untimely war on filesharing. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-29 06:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Modded "Troll"? That's funny. An explanation of the view opposite Slashdot is always a Troll.