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US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke went to Nashville yesterday to address a symposium on intellectual property enforcement, and he threw down the gauntlet: the Obama administration will find, board, and scuttle digital pirate ships, and the SS Copyright is going to get a new coat of armored plating.
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The internet has changed the way the world works, and the law is being forced to keep up with it. Changing definitions of intellectual property and privacy in the online world are inspiring new laws at all levels of government. Three such bills are making their way though the US Congress; however, it is what one of these bills would make legal that will be our concern in this article.
Three bills
The three bills referenced are the Internet Spyware Prevention Act of 2007 (I-SPY), the Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act (SPYACT) and the Counter Spy Act of 2007.
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement rolls on. Negotiators have just wrapped up another round of talks this week in Lucerne, Switzerland, and more than two years into the ACTA process, have actually started to meet with civil society groups to talk about the actual ACTA draft text. (Many governments have previously asked for comments on ACTA, but before releasing the full text.)
“On the first day of the negotiations, in the interest of transparency, the Swiss Government hosted meetings at which ACTA negotiators met with representatives of civil society who have expressed an interest in ACTA to exchange views,” says the official announcement.
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Today, Vice President Joe Biden and Victoria Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, released the U.S. government’s official IP enforcement strategy. The plan — developed following extensive public consultation — identifies 33 key action items to combat intellectual property infringement, both domestically and internationally.
Download the PDF to read the complete 2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement.
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