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White House: Copyright Treaty Details are "National Security"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 13, 2009 - 8:35am.
Washington - The Obama administration has denied a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for details of a proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), citing national security concerns, CNET News.com reported.

Critics say that the treaty may include provisions that would criminalize copyright infringement even in cases where there is no direct or indirect motivation of financial gain.

CNET noted that pro-copyright groups have lobbied for the ACTA to include criminal penalties for online copyright infringement.

Jamie Love, director of the nonprofit Knowledge Ecology International -- which filed the recent FOIA request -- told CNET that the classified documents in questions "are being widely circulated to corporate lobbyists in Europe, Japan, and the U.S. There is no reason for them to be secret from the American public."

 
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10195547-38.html

Published in DMW Daily, March 13, 2009
tags: Law | Policy | Copyright | Barack Obama | Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement |



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