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Chan On Open Access

Leslie Chan has a great primer on open access in Academic Matters.

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April 15, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Fights Over Bandwidth Caps

Bill St. Arnaud asks whether bandwidth caps are the next net neutrality, while a New York Congressman has announced plans to introduce a bill banning the practice.

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April 15, 2009 14 comments News

15 Years of Anti-Piracy Warnings

TechDirt points to Guardian collection of anti-piracy warnings, dating back to video cassettes.

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April 13, 2009 1 comment News

Korean Version of ACTA Timeline

IP Left, a Korean NGO, has created a Korean-language version of my ACTA Timeline post.

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April 13, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Wikileaks Posts ACTA Documents Revealing Enforcement Cooperation and Practices Info

Wikileaks has posted additional original ACTA documents, including draft language for several sections of the treaty.  The leaked documents are consistent with earlier reports on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Chapter.  The leak package also includes the Canadian non-paper on institutional arrangements for ACTA (Canada has since supplied draft treaty language that has not been leaked).

The one document this is completely new is the release of the non-paper on International Enforcement Cooperation and Enforcement Practices, which would form Chapters 3 and 4 of ACTA.  The basis for discussion for the International Enforcement Cooperation (Chapter 3) are:

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April 12, 2009 7 comments News