Speak out against secretive copyright treaty: sign the ACTA declaration!

Cory Doctorow 8:44 am Tue Jun 22, 2010

Mike from American University writes in with a request for signatures on a statement on ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. This is a largely secret treaty negotiation that has taken place away from the UN, among rich countries, containing many extreme copyright measures that public interest groups, poor nations, and independent creators have been excluded from participating in:

"The statement below was drafted at a meeting of over 90 academics, practitioners and public interest organizations from six continents gathered at American University Washington College of Law, June 16-18, 2010. It has been endorsed by over 200 organizations or individuals in the last 24 hours. The thrust of the statement is that: 'we find that the terms of the publicly released draft of ACTA threaten numerous public interests, including every concern specifically disclaimed by negotiators.' The statement is now open to individual and organizational endorsements. Please send endorsements to: acta.declaration@gmail.com The final statement will be released to the public with endorsements on Wednesday June 23 at 10AM. Endorsements for this release will be accepted until June 23 at 9AM."

Full Statement
(Thanks, Mike)

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