[Free-sklyarov-uk] Protests

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Richard Kay wrote:

> I think the best way to get the possibility of decent numbers on
> this protest by Saturday is to broaden the issue so that those involved
> in anti WTO activities generally are willing to adopt 
> Free-Sklyarov and anti-DMCA as a cause directly connected with theirs, 
> rather than this being an issue understood only by a very narrow and 
> specialised group of hacktivists. I think some research into UK based 
> anti-WTO lists and education there about the WTO extension of 
> corporate intellectual property rights might enable a fairly quick 
> escalation of support. 

[I'm out-of-country, just monitoring this list for freesklyarov.org, but
couldn't resist...]

There *is* a link here.  The U.S. DMCA was passed *explicitly* to
implement provisions of the WIPO treaty; the WTO and WIPO have a
"cooperative agreement".  Many other countries are going to be
"encouraged" to implement similar laws "to comply with the WIPO" --- in
all likelihood they will not realize the pernicious effects of the
proposed anti-circumvention language until after it is passed.

I can rant more on the WTO-DMCA link, if anyone's curious.
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