Delete the FTAA Treaty Chapter on Intellectual Property Rights
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We, the undersigned citizens of the Western Hemisphere, urge you to delete the chapter on intellectual property rights in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Treaty, set to take effect in 2005.
The FTAA Treaty chapter on intellectual property rights is hopelessly unbalanced and threatens the civil liberties of 800 million citizens of the Americas. The chapter's provisions would restrain trade, prevent competition, and stifle innovation throughout the Western Hemisphere.
The FTAA intellectual property rights chapter requires the 34 signatory nations to amend their domestic laws to dramatically expand criminal and civil penalties and procedures against intellectual property infringement. It proposes mandating that countries imprison non-commercial infringers such as Peer-2-Peer (P2P) file-sharers, and it restricts consumers' traditional fair use rights.
The FTAA Treaty's 'DMCA-like' anti-circumvention provisions would create monopolies for large intellectual property holders over building compatible devices. They also forbid consumers from bypassing the restrictions on their own music CDs, DVD movies, and eBooks, thereby creating greater barriers to trade, competition, and innovation.
These provisions outlaw critical scientific research and technical information, in violation of the freedom of expression rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
The treaty's chapter on intellectual property is bloated with provisions to permit the copyrighting of facts and data, and it requires other nations to increase the length of copyright protection. Rather than being forced to adopt domestic policies that only benefit a few large foreign corporations, individual countries must retain their national sovereignty and remain in control of deciding fundamental policy choices about the appropriate scope and breadth of intellectual property rights.
See IP Justice's "Top 10 Reasons to Delete the FTAA's IP Chapter" or the educational website http://www.ipjustice.org/FTAA for more detailed analysis and information on the impact of the FTAA Treaty's intellectual property chapter.
While we do wish to reward authors and incentivize further creativity, FTAA's intellectual property rights chapter will harm the vast majority of creators and thwart the progress of science and useful arts. Nor does the agreement promote the values of free trade or democracy.
A chapter on intellectual property rights has no legitimate place in a free trade agreement and should be deleted in its entirety from the Free Trade Area of the Americas Treaty
The FTAA Treaty chapter on intellectual property rights is hopelessly unbalanced and threatens the civil liberties of 800 million citizens of the Americas. The chapter's provisions would restrain trade, prevent competition, and stifle innovation throughout the Western Hemisphere.
The FTAA intellectual property rights chapter requires the 34 signatory nations to amend their domestic laws to dramatically expand criminal and civil penalties and procedures against intellectual property infringement. It proposes mandating that countries imprison non-commercial infringers such as Peer-2-Peer (P2P) file-sharers, and it restricts consumers' traditional fair use rights.
The FTAA Treaty's 'DMCA-like' anti-circumvention provisions would create monopolies for large intellectual property holders over building compatible devices. They also forbid consumers from bypassing the restrictions on their own music CDs, DVD movies, and eBooks, thereby creating greater barriers to trade, competition, and innovation.
These provisions outlaw critical scientific research and technical information, in violation of the freedom of expression rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
The treaty's chapter on intellectual property is bloated with provisions to permit the copyrighting of facts and data, and it requires other nations to increase the length of copyright protection. Rather than being forced to adopt domestic policies that only benefit a few large foreign corporations, individual countries must retain their national sovereignty and remain in control of deciding fundamental policy choices about the appropriate scope and breadth of intellectual property rights.
See IP Justice's "Top 10 Reasons to Delete the FTAA's IP Chapter" or the educational website http://www.ipjustice.org/FTAA for more detailed analysis and information on the impact of the FTAA Treaty's intellectual property chapter.
While we do wish to reward authors and incentivize further creativity, FTAA's intellectual property rights chapter will harm the vast majority of creators and thwart the progress of science and useful arts. Nor does the agreement promote the values of free trade or democracy.
A chapter on intellectual property rights has no legitimate place in a free trade agreement and should be deleted in its entirety from the Free Trade Area of the Americas Treaty
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Robin D. Gross
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- United States of America
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- Please sign!
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David Thompson
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- United States of America
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Patrick Norager
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- USA
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- Pro File-Sharing Songwriter
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Andrew Sitzer
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- USA
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Steaphan Greene
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- United States
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Loic Dachary
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- France
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- Our culture needs more freedom, not more restrictions.
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Carsten Larsen
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Colby Schoolcraft
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- United States of America
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- Tell everyone! Get rid of this IP Chapter!!
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Jacob Vivian
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- USA
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G J'evon Covington
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- United States
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- I am highly against this FTAA
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Tony Pereira
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- USA
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Giotgio Silvio Patalani
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- Italy
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I.P. Freely
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- SomeWhere...ia
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- teh petition needs me! Defenders of Constitutional Freedoms, ASSEMBLE! For great justice!!@
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Adam Sayer
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- USA
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- Viva La Freedom
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jason lane
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- UK
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- just what the world needs, more in prison, American justice. Over my dead body.
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John Mulich
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- United States Of America
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- Liberty shall prevail!
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Bob McDonald
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- USA
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- This lockdown is utter crap. The RIAA are a bunch of fascists nazi stupid heads!
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Eric Platt
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- USA
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- You are killing our civil rights with these laws & setting back the path of human evolution.
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Eric Fort
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- USA
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Robert
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Jez Humble
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- UK
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- If the message isn't clear yet - listen to voters, not big business - it will be at the next election.
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Jeroen Rathe
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- Belgium
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Richard
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- United States of America
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- This is removes liberties set forth within the United States consitution and must be stopped.
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Ralph Ekekihl
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- Netherlands
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Carl Hult
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- Sweden
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Jim Bowen
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- USA
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- Freedom is disappearing the older I get.
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Arthur Quiab
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- USA
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- Will the world ever not be driven by greed?
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Derek Gibson
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- Ireland
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- Bad hoojoo
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Adam Cruse
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- Australia
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- for god sake why make life harder than it already is.
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David Loundy
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- USA
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Brandon Engmark
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- United States
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Timothy Swan
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- Australia
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Scott A OBrien
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- USA
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- Preserve the rights of digital consumers. Stop the greed of large corporations.
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Rob Williams
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- UK
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S. Scaggs
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- USA
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Dr. William Rankin
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- US
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Nicolбs Daniel Cйsar
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- Argentina
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Diego Saravia
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- Argentina
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Mark Vovchuk
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- USA
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- If the US signs this treaty. They lose a citizen.
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Pamela Firth
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- USA
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- This is one of the dumbest things on record. Did the Alien and Sedition Acts teach us nothing?
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Daniel Bendig
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- United States
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Mariano de Iriondo
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- Argentina
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Pablo
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- Argentina
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patricio luis
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- argentina
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Enrique Herrera Noya
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- CHILE
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- hipatia.info
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Juan Bidini
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- Argentina
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Martin Olivera
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- Argentina
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- Hipatia member - www.hipatia.info
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Claudia Acuсa
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- Argentina
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German Maglione
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- В
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- В
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Jon Jensen
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