Graeme Philipson discusses the surreptitiously conceived Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which aims to strengthen digital copyright protection. In effect the new regulations mean border and immigration officers in treaty countries will become "copyright police", empowered to search, confiscate, or destroy, virtually at their sole discretion, any electronic device that may, or may not, hold content that contravenes copyright laws. The ACTA draft is a scary document. If a treaty based on ... Read full entry
Border and immigration officers to be copyright enforcers?
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 12 June, 2008 to the comment subset
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