Now YES we can celebrate.
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-se...
Cheers!
Tom
2014-03-26 12:05 GMT-07:00 Oona Castro oonacastro@gmail.com:
Fair enough, you're right. There is a long path yet ahead. The government is expecting to be able to sanction/sign it during NetMundialhttp://netmundial.br/meeting and has invested a lot on negotiations to make it real.
Let's wait and see how far it can go.
For those interested in regulation related matters, I'm attaching a draft version in English made by Raquel Gatto from ISOC Brazil and shared by Carolina Rossini, whom some of you might know.
Oona
On 26 March 2014 03:30, Everton Zanella Alvarenga < everton.alvarenga@okfn.org> wrote:
Humm.... let's wait until the bill become a *law*.
This is an important step, but we still need a lot of work here.
When our access to information law [1] were approved by the chamber of deputies, its bill got stuck in the senate for a looong time. It was really, really hard to have any civil society influence to have it approved. I didn't believe when I saw it happening - as Spain, Brazil was one of the last big democracies without an access to information law.
Now we have to analyse the senate situation and *if* it will be approved with the actual configuration. It is possible the bill will have to pass
on
several commissions and, if any lobbyist find its amable senator, this
bill
can easily get stuck. And we are in the presidential elections year, thus if eveything goes as usual, the law will likely be approved only next
year.
And if the presidential situation changes (workers party go out of the power, which is be very constrained with the world cup results, as incredible it can be for a gringo), things can change a lot regarding the actual political scenario.
[1]
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o*<
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o%3E
http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm
2014-03-26 2:23 GMT-03:00 Victor Grigas vgrigas@wikimedia.org:
Yahooooo!
On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacastro@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello all!
Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important
for
the
future of projects like ours.
Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill)
has
just
been approved by the Brazilian Congress<
http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-s...
. Now the Senate still needs to approve it.
The bill has been recently supported <
http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-s...
by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1]
Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started
to
fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal
law
over certain uses of internet.
This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another
round
of
public comments on 2010.
A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of
lobby
over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles
about
net
neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries,
but
mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the
content
should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the
need
of
a justice decision about that).
The case of NSA spying Brazil<
http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-sta...
made the government become fonder of the Marco Civil bill, fostering its approval in the Congress.
Since the first draft of the bill, some aspects were lost, but the
bill
remains important and mostly beneficial to internet rights in my
opinion.
It's been a long process, with lots of threats to this initiative,
but
in
the end the balance seems good. Good the the freedom of expression
and
good
for net neutrality.
Best regards Oona
[1]
http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-s...
http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-sta...
Other links: a. Research about media piracy - the Brazilian chapter brings the
history
of the Marco Civil da Internet by 2010. -
http://piracy.americanassembly.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/MPEE-PDF-1.0.4...
b.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/brazil-legislate-online-civil-r...
c.
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/02/19/amendments-to-brazils-bill-of-right...
d.
https://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/03/12/brazil-marcocivil-bill-of-rights/
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