[NYCInfoLaw] Reading Group @ CLS -- Tues., Apr. 6, 7 pm

[Bahrad Sokhansanj]

We return to regular reading groups next week with a discussion of the  
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which is being negotiated  
as we speak.

The reading group will be held at Columbia on Tuesday, April 6 at 7:00  
pm in Jerome Greene Hall Room 646.

RSVP to yekaterina.vershov at law.columbia.edu, if you plan to attend.

***READINGS***

This recent op-ed by Larry Lessig & Jack Goldsmith published in the  
March 26 edition of the Washington Post sums up key issues and  
criticisms:

http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2010/03/29_goldsmith.lessig.post.html

The leaked text of the current draft is available here:

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/201001_acta.pdf_as_text

And, here are some additional interesting readings:

Cory Doctorow Summarizing the worst case ACTA:
http://boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html

Blog Post on Notice and takedown, anti-circumvention and 3-strikes provisions:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4808/125/

EU is not a fan of ACTA:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/10/eu-parliament-votes.html

Wikipedia has a long-ish article [Ed.-- edited by pro-copyright  
government agents and EFF anarchists, one assumes]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement

What the EFF has to say:
http://www.eff.org/issues/acta

What the government has to say (partially redacted):
http://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20080313/doj1.jpg


-- 
Bahrad Sokhansanj (Columbia Law)
bahrad.sokhansanj at law.columbia.edu