[Infowarrior] - Fwd: [WL-News] ACTA trade agreement at today's US-EU summit according to White House

[Richard Forno]

Begin forwarded message:
>
> Wikileaks Press Release
> Wed Jun 11 00:43:47 GMT 2008
>
> White House negotiating controversal ACTA trade agreement at US-EU  
> summit
>
> The White House has just released its US - EU Summit Declaration,
> stating, in relation ACTA:
>
> "We will advance our shared objective of effective protection and
> enforcement of intellectual property rights. Toward this end we
> will work together with other trading partners to seek to conclude
> a strong Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by the end of
> the year."
>
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/06/20080610-8.html
>
> Late last month Wikileaks broke the ACTA story with our release of
> this document:
>
> http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Proposed_US_ACTA_multi-lateral_intellectual_property_trade_agreement
>
> which revealed the stealth negotiations.
>
> The story has become front page news in Canada, and is starting
> to be picked up by the world press:
>
> http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=acta+trade+agreement&scoring=d
>
> http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&lr=&q=acta+trade+agreement&scoring=d
>
> The US ACTA proposal has the effect of criminalizing primary source
> journalism sites that publish or even link to leaks, even non profit
> entities such as Wikileaks.
>
> Many provisions of the US proposal are clearly intended to create
> a world-wide "DMCA"--legislation which is notorious in the United
> States for its suppression of digital press freedoms.
>
> Since the ACTA vehicle is a treaty, Congressional or Parliamentry
> oversight is likely to be minimal and constitutional protections
> may be abridged.
>
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