{"id":505,"date":"2012-02-11T06:10:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T12:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2012-03-15T13:17:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T19:17:31","slug":"6-reasons-to-oppose-acta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/11\/6-reasons-to-oppose-acta\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Reasons to oppose ACTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>ACTA locks countries into obsolete copyright and patent laws. If a democracy decides on less restrictive laws that reflect the reality of the internet, ACTA will prevent that.<\/li>\n<li>ACTA criminalizes users by making noncommercial, harmless remixes into crimes if &#8220;on a commercial scale&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laquadrature.net\/en\/acta-updated-analysis-of-the-final-version#footnote10_tuwtomp\">art 2.14.1<\/a>). Many amateur works achieve a commercial scale on sites like Youtube. ACTA, like SOPA, could mean jail time for the <a href=\"http:\/\/freebieber.com\/\">Justin Biebers<\/a> of the world.<\/li>\n<li>ACTA Criminalizes legitimate websites, making them responsible for user behavior by &#8220;aiding and abetting&#8221;. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laquadrature.net\/en\/acta-updated-analysis-of-the-final-version#footnote6_04274xs\">art 2.14.4<\/a>). Like SOPA, the founders of your favorite sites could be sued or (worse) thrown in jail for copyright infringement by their users.<\/li>\n<li>ACTA will let rightsholders use laughably inflated claims of damages (based on the disproven idea that every download or stream is a lost sale) to sue people. As if suing amazing artists, video makers and websites for millions wasn&#8217;t hard enough!<\/li>\n<li>ACTA Permanently bypasses democracy by giving the &#8220;ACTA Committee&#8221; the power to &#8220;propose amendments to [ACTA]&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laquadrature.net\/en\/acta-updated-analysis-of-the-final-version#footnote12_bdjc6bn\">art 6.4<\/a>). In other words, voting for ACTA writes a blank check to an unelected committee. These closed-door proceedings will be a playground for SOPA-supporters like the MPAA.<\/li>\n<li>Trade agreements are a gaping loophole, a backdoor track that, even though it creates new law, is miles removed from democracy. It&#8217;s a secretive process that&#8217;s tailor-made to serve politically connected companies. And the movie studios behind SOPA? They&#8217;re experts at it. If we can&#8217;t make secretive trade agreements harder to pass than US law, our internet&#8217;s future belongs to the lobbyists behind SOPA.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laquadrature.net\/en\/acta-updated-analysis-of-the-final-version\">La Quadrature du Net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACTA locks countries into obsolete copyright and patent laws. If a democracy decides on less restrictive laws that reflect the reality of the internet, ACTA will prevent that. ACTA criminalizes users by making noncommercial, harmless remixes into crimes if &#8220;on a commercial scale&#8221; (art 2.14.1). Many amateur works achieve a commercial scale on sites like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34,32,33],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-censorship","tag-copyright","tag-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}