CAFTA Treaty Exports DMCA

[rman]

Slashdot
CAFTA Treaty Exports DMCA
August 02, 2005
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/08/02/2333208.shtml?tid=103&tid=17
"The BSA, RIAA and MPAA successfully lobbied the U.S. Congress to include DMCA-like provisions in the recently approved CAFTA treaty, according to CNet. Among other provisions, Chapter 15 of the treaty requires treaty signatories to allow software patents, extend Copyright protections to 70 years after the author's death, and make it illegal to produce 'circumvention devices' for protected works."


News.com
Copyright lobbyists strike again
August 1, 2005, 4:00 AM PT
http://news.com.com/Copyright+lobbyists+strike+again/2010-1071_3-5811025.html?part=rss&tag=5811025&subj=news

Chapter 15 of the CAFTA treaty
http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/asset_upload_file934_3935.pdf (pdf)

Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Executive Summary
http://www.copyright.gov/reports/studies/dmca/dmca_executive.html

[whistle]

1. So, is it really "FREE TRADE" if patents, copyrights, etc......

....go on almost forever?

[rman]

2. kick