Weekly column: DMCA exported on back of CAFTA and other trade agreements [ip]
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@xxxxxxxx>
Date: August 1, 2005 7:16:59 PM EDT
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Subject: [Politech] Weekly column: DMCA exported on back of CAFTA and
other trade agreements [ip]
http://news.com.com/Copyright+lobbyists+strike+again/
2010-1071_3-5811025.html
Copyright lobbyists strike again
August 1, 2005, 4:00 AM PT
By Declan McCullagh
Hollywood and large U.S. software companies chalked up another
crucial yet little-noticed victory last week with the final approval
of the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
You wouldn't know it from a political debate veering between labor
standards in Nicaragua and the evils of protectionism, but one major
section of CAFTA will export some of the more controversial sections
of U.S. copyright law.
Once it takes effect, CAFTA will require Costa Rica, the Dominican
Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to mirror
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's broad prohibition on bypassing
copy-protection technology.
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