Hi all,
While the TTIP (EU-US) treaty is so far steering clear of any copyright provisions, TPP (US and Pacific countries) seems to have plenty to offer on this issue, including term lengths and orphan works.
I haven't had time to read into it, but there's a WaPo article that can be accessed without running into a paywall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/09/03/in-a-dar...
Cheers, Dimi
Here is an immediate action that the Foundation could take: http://keionline.org/node/2316
"Five groups, the Authors Alliance, Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) and New Media Rights have written to Ambassador Froman at USTR, asking that the TPP not adopt measures that would prevent the Congress from enacting legislation to limit the remedies for copyright infringement that were proposed by the Register of Copyrights in June 2015, to expand access to orphan copyrighted works."
Copy of letter: http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/31Aug2015-orphan-works-USTR-TPP-let...
Here is more detailed background: http://keionline.org/node/2309
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
While the TTIP (EU-US) treaty is so far steering clear of any copyright provisions, TPP (US and Pacific countries) seems to have plenty to offer on this issue, including term lengths and orphan works.
I haven't had time to read into it, but there's a WaPo article that can be accessed without running into a paywall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/09/03/in-a-dar...
Cheers, Dimi
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Here is another EFF open letter on the TPP, this time mainly about fair use and related protections, which I hope the Foundation will join:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/new-open-letter-calls-tpp-negotiators-...
Text: https://www.eff.org/document/open-coalition-letter-tpp-exceptions-and-limita...
Can we please get some indication of whether the Foundation intends to join these efforts?
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:46 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Here is an immediate action that the Foundation could take: http://keionline.org/node/2316
"Five groups, the Authors Alliance, Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) and New Media Rights have written to Ambassador Froman at USTR, asking that the TPP not adopt measures that would prevent the Congress from enacting legislation to limit the remedies for copyright infringement that were proposed by the Register of Copyrights in June 2015, to expand access to orphan copyrighted works."
Copy of letter: http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/31Aug2015-orphan-works-USTR-TPP-let...
Here is more detailed background: http://keionline.org/node/2309
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
While the TTIP (EU-US) treaty is so far steering clear of any copyright provisions, TPP (US and Pacific countries) seems to have plenty to offer on this issue, including term lengths and orphan works.
I haven't had time to read into it, but there's a WaPo article that can be accessed without running into a paywall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/09/03/in-a-dar...
Cheers, Dimi
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