Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 26, 2012 at 11:31:00 AM CET
Mitmachen: Stoppt ACTA!
Das ACTA-Abkommen wird nun bald auch von der EU und den einzelnen Mitgliedstaaten ratifiziert. Hierfür muss das Europäische Parlament das Abkommen absegnen oder ablehnen. Daher haben wir jetzt die Chance, alle Europaparlamentarier an ihre Verantwortung zu erinnern, sich für unsere Bürgerrechte und den europäischen Binnenmarkt einzusetzen und “Nein” zu stimmen.
Der Entwicklungsausschuss (DEVE) im EU-Parlament hat einen ersten Stellungnahmeentwurf (pdf) veröffentlicht, der das ACTA befürwortet, viele Fehler enthält und scheinbar nicht versteht, dass der Medikamentenzugang in Entwicklungsländern durch das ACTA behindert wird.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 26, 2012 at 11:19:00 AM CET
ACTA Signed by the EU. Let's Defeat it Together!
Today in Tokyo, the EU and 22 of its Member States officially signed ACTA1, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement. The worldwide citizen movement initiated against SOPA and PIPA must now focus on defeating their global counterpart ACTA in the European Parliament.
A few days after the online protests against the anti-sharing bills SOPA and PIPA in the United States, today's signing ceremony of ACTA is the symbol of the circumvention of democracy to impose policies that hurt freedom of communication and innovation worldwide. However, this highly symbolic signature is not the end of the road.
Every citizen willing to act to defeat ACTA now has an opportunity to participate in having it rejected. They will be able to weigh in at each of the many steps of the procedure, which will lead to a final vote in the EU Parliament no sooner than June.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 26, 2012 at 11:09:00 AM CET
Signing Ceremony of the EU for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
The ceremony for the European Union (EU) and its Member States to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was held on January 26 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
(1) Representatives from the European Union (EU) and 22 Member States, attended the ceremony and signed the Agreement. The Member States which did not sign the Agreement are expected to do so on the completion of respective domestic procedures.
EU and its Member States that signed the Agreement at this ceremony are: the EU, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 26, 2012 at 11:00:00 AM CET
ACTA explained
ACTA is one more offensive against the sharing of culture on the Internet. ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is an agreement secretly negotiated by a small "club" of like-minded countries (39 countries, including the 27 of the European Union, the United States, Japan, etc). Negotiated instead of being democratically debated, ACTA bypasses parliaments and international organizations to dictate a repressive logic dictated by the entertainment industries.
ACTA would impose new criminal sanctions forcing Internet actors to monitor and censor online communications. It is thus a major threat to freedom of expression online and creates legal uncertainty for Internet companies. In the name of trademarks and patents, it would also hamper access to generic medicines in poor countries.
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Topic: War and Peace - on January 26, 2012 at 10:14:00 AM CET
Pressefreiheit weltweit
Österreich liegt auf Platz fünf - Platz eins belegen Finnland und Norwegen - Schlusslichter sind Turkmenistan, Nordkorea und Eritrea
Reporter ohne Grenzen stuft Ägypten im jüngsten Pressefreiheitsranking gleich um 39 Plätze schlechter ein als im Vorjahr. Schärfere Notstandsgesetze und unverhältnismäßige Gewalt gegen Journalisten führt die Pressefreiheitorganisation als Gründe an. Platz eins belegen Finnland und Norwegen. Syrien, wo Zensur, Überwachung und willkürliche Gewalt die Arbeit von Journalisten nahezu unmöglich machen, fiel auf Platz 176. Schlusslichter des Rankings sind Turkmenistan, Nordkorea und Eritrea. Die USA fielen um 27 Positionen auf Platz 47 ab, weil die Polizei die Berichterstattung über die Occupy-Proteste laut RSF-Bericht behindert habe.
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Topic: War and Peace - on January 26, 2012 at 10:12:00 AM CET
Reporters Without Borders international press freedom index
“This year’s index sees many changes in the rankings, changes that reflect a year that was incredibly rich in developments, especially in the Arab world,” Reporters Without Borders said today as it released its 10th annual press freedom index. “Many media paid dearly for their coverage of democratic aspirations or opposition movements. Control of news and information continued to tempt governments and to be a question of survival for totalitarian and repressive regimes. The past year also highlighted the leading role played by netizens in producing and disseminating news.
“Crackdown was the word of the year in 2011. Never has freedom of information been so closely associated with democracy. Never have journalists, through their reporting, vexed the enemies of freedom so much. Never have acts of censorship and physical attacks on journalists seemed so numerous. The equation is simple: the absence or suppression of civil liberties leads necessarily to the suppression of media freedom. Dictatorships fear and ban information, especially when it may undermine them.
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Topic: PHOTO - on January 26, 2012 at 10:03:00 AM CET
Insane English copyright ruling creates ownership in the idea of a photo's composition
In a bizarre ruling, an English court has ruled that in favor of a commercial poster company that argued that a photo that showed a similar (but different) scene taken by a different person in a different place nevertheless infringed the copyright of a poster. What the judge ruled was that photographing a scene that is "substantially similar" to a scene someone else has already photographed infringes the first shooter's copyright.
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Topic: WEB - on January 26, 2012 at 8:36:00 AM CET
Österreich unterzeichnet ACTA - heute
Das umstrittene Anti-Piraterieabkommen ACTA wird von Österreich am Donnerstag in Tokio vom österreichischen Botschafter in Japan unterzeichnet. Das bestätigte ein Sprecher des Außenministeriums am Mittwoch der futurezone. Der Ministerrat hatte das Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), das in den vergangenen Jahren weitgehend unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit zwischen 39 Staaten ausgehandelt wurde, bereits am Dienstag beschlossen. Durch den EU-Rat ging der Pakt bereits Mitte Dezember.
In Tokio werde das Abkommen deshalb unterzeichnet, weil Japan der Depositarstaat sei, wo Dokumente zu dem Pakt hinterlegt werden, so der Ministeriumssprecher. Das Abkommen muss noch vom österreichischen Parlament und vom EU-Parlament beschlossen werden, das den Pakt noch kippen kann.
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Topic: MUSIK - on January 26, 2012 at 8:02:00 AM CET
Chemical Brothers – the movie: do not adjust your eyeballs
The Chemical Brothers' famously psychedelic live act has finally been captured in film – with flying cutlery and clowns.
Adam Smith is the first to admit that his debut feature film is not the easiest sell in the history of cinema. "There's no real narrative strand," says the director. "It's 85 minutes long, it's got paintballs exploding – and clowns. I was saying to someone the other day, 'You'd never commission it, would you?'" He laughs. "It sounds rubbish, you know?"
Seated across the table from Smith in a west London pub, Tom Rowlands, one half of the Chemical Brothers, frowns. "There is," he says heavily, "some music in it is as well." But even taking into account the film's subject matter – the Chemical Brothers headlining Fuji Rock festival in Niigata, Japan, last year – Don't Think still seems on the face of it an unlikely candidate for cinematic glory. "It's quite a singular experience," admits Rowlands. "It's an hour and a half of …" He searches for the right word to describe the ferocious electronic psychedelia of the duo's live set. "Bosh," he decides, adding that the film has no scene-setting introduction, "just a load of cutlery falling in slow motion."
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