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<td>[IFLA-L] Video Statement: IFLA raises concerns about ACTA</td>
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<td>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:32:24 +0200</td>
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<td>Wiebke Dalhoff <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Wiebke.Dalhoff@ifla.org"><Wiebke.Dalhoff@ifla.org></a></td>
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<pre>Video Statement:
IFLA raises concerns about ACTA
Brussels/The Hague, 11 April, 2012: At a stakeholder hearing in the
European Parliament today Stuart Hamilton, Director Policy & Advocacy at
the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
(IFLA), raised severe concerns about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
Agreement (ACTA). Libraries are concerned that the non-transparent ACTA
negotiations pose a threat to the balance of copyright, Hamilton
stressed in his video message. ACTA's objectives and methods endanger
the balance of copyright, and seriously conflict with the library
community's commitments to equitable access to information and cultural
expression.
"IFLA is gravely concerned by the extreme secrecy surrounding the ACTA
negotiations, the potentially chilling effects of targeting
intermediaries, and the continuing focus on enforcement at the expense
of flexibility", he said. "We have made far less progress in creating
flexibility in copyright - particularly in the digital age. ACTA
compounds the problem by limiting flexibility going forward - at this
point we have no ideas what technologies are going to emerge in the next
decade and ACTA will lock us into an approach that is not suitable for
now, let alone the future."
ACTA is a proposed international agreement aimed at creating a stronger
framework for global enforcement of intellectual property rights. The
provisions in ACTA go beyond the current internationally-agreed
standards in the TRIPs Agreement. Negotiations started in 2007. The
agreement has already been signed by Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco,
New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, the United States and by all
European Union Member States except Cyprus, Estonia, Slovakia, Germany
and the Netherlands.
In the European Union, the European Parliament has to give its consent
before ACTA can enter into force. The Stakeholder Hearing has been
initiated by Marietje Schaake and Ivailo Kalfin, Members of the European
Parliament, as part of their decision making process. It is expected
that their decision about ACTA will be taken in July.
Watch the full video statement by Stuart Hamilton:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ifla.org/en/news/ifla-raises-concerns-about-acta">http://www.ifla.org/en/news/ifla-raises-concerns-about-acta</a>
Wiebke Dalhoff
Policy Officer
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
P.O. Box 95312
2509 CH The Hague
Netherlands
+31 70 314 0884
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wiebke.dalhoff@ifla.org">wiebke.dalhoff@ifla.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ifla.org">www.ifla.org</a>
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