[Advocacy Advisors] [Wikimedia-l] SOPA related bill in Taiwan

[Ted Chien]

Hi Stephen, thanks for the forwarding, much appreciated.  

Regards,
Ted Chien
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On 2013年5月29日Wednesday at 上午12:38, Stephen LaPorte wrote:

> Hello Ted,
>  
> I am cross-posting your email for the advocacy advisory group.  
>  
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Ted Chien <hsiangtai.chien at gmail.com (mailto:hsiangtai.chien at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > My dear colleagues,
> >  
> > Recently on May 21 the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office has announced
> > that they will amend the Copyright Act to demand local ISPs to block
> > illegal contents on foreign websites, just like the SOPA bill in USA last
> > year. For more information, you can read the following news reports:
> >  
> > Focus Taiwan:
> > http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aall/201305210035.aspx
> >  
> > ZDNet:
> > http://www.zdnet.com/cn/taiwans-copyright-act-amendment-proposal-comes-under-fire-7000015943/
> >  
> > Now there are many Taiwan netizens protesting the bill:
> >  
> > http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/05/26/netizens-fear-copyright-amendment-will-bring-web-filter-system-to-taiwan/
> >  
> > But today we just see an news that TIPO just ignored these protests and
> > insist that this bill will not harm the net freedom and rights of general
> > users:
> >  
> > http://newtalk.tw/news/2013/05/28/36854.html (it's in Chinese, you may use
> > Google translate to read the news.)
> >  
> > Indeed we should protect the copyright, but to ask ISPs to block websites
> > is too over-reaction.
> >  
> > We Wikimedia Taiwan is now against the bill and has just released an
> > Chinese announcement on our official website to explain why we against the
> > bill and ask the government to stop the act:
> >  
> > http://bit.ly/ZbvTX0
> >  
> > We also started an discussion on zh.wp to ask the community if we could put
> > the announcement as an global site notice, we even think about blackout
> > zh.wp for 24 hours (the date is still in discussion):
> >  
> > http://goo.gl/fXi8g
> >  
> > This is because according to Alexa.com (http://Alexa.com) (http://Alexa.com), Wikipedia is now
> > the top 10 website in Taiwan. To blackout Wikipedia in Taiwan should get
> > the attention of TIPO and has some effects.
> >  
> > My questions are:
> >  
> > * Could we ask for blackout Wikipedia (not just zh.wp) ONLY for Taiwan IP?
> > (Some users from China hope this blackout will not effect them)
> > * If we could not blackout Wikipedia only for Taiwan IP, could we ask to
> > blackout zh.wp? (from what we have discussed on zh.wp, the Chinese
> > community has agreed on such blackout, but the date is still on discussion)
> > * If we could implement such blackout, how soon it can be done?
> > * What suggestions from you that we should do as an local Chapter?
> >  
> > Thanks and Regards,
> > Ted Chien
> > Chairman
> > Wikimedia Taiwan
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> Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel
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>  
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