A proposed global intellectual-property treaty no longer nudges the international community to develop “three strikes” protocols to suspend internet connections of customers caught downloading copyrighted works, according to a draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement released Tuesday. The official draft of the proposed intellectual property accord was released after months of leaks and assertions by the Obama administration that it was a classified national security secret . Still, critics of the proposal said Tuesday that a controversial theme in the draft (.pdf) remains: that the United States was “attempting to export a regulatory regime that favors big media companies at the expense of consumers and innovators,” according to Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C., digital rights group. The group and others were, in part, referring to the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act . Under the DMCA, internet service providers are responsible for the infringing material hosted on their networks if they fail to remove the content at the rights holder’s request. That is a sea change to Canadian copyright statutes, for example.
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ACTA Backs Away From 3 Strikes
