1.4 Please provide the name of your organisation (if you are responding as a citizen, enter “citizen”): TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue 1.5 Please provide your country of residence / establishment: Belgium 2. What role for Europe? 2.1 There are already many…
EU Challenge for ACTA: Transferring Personal Data to Unsafe Countries
Submitted by alberto.cerda on 29. June 2011 * ACTA * EU Commission * Privacy The European Union has a long tradition of protecting personal information. Since the 70’s, some European countries have adopted domestic law that regulates the processing of…
Mexican Congress might mean deathblow for ACTA
Motion by Mexican Congress asking Government not to sign ACTA PUNTO DE ACUERDO ÚNICO.- La Comisión Permanente del H. Congreso de la Unión, exhorta respetuosamente al titular del Poder Ejecutivo Federal para que, en el marco de sus atribuciones, instruya…
SHOWDOWN IN GENEVA: COPYRIGHT VS. HUMAN RIGHTS FOR BLIND PERSONS
ORAL STATEMENT BEFORE WIPO BY DAVID HAMMERSTEIN, TACD Filibusterism and lack of democratic legitimacy against the right to read of the visually impaired After years of campaigning on the part of blind persons NGOs, consumers and human rights groups, the…
Who is the EU representing at WIPO: democratic will of citizens or narrow industrial interests?
On May 12th, 2011 the plenary session of European Parliament adopted a report called “Unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries” (INI/2010/2156), that made clear its support for the international binding “Treaty for the visually impaired and other print…
TACD copyright event in EP: Making digital sphere work for all
MAKING THE DIGITAL SPHERE WORK FOR ALL European Parliament Room A5E-1 June 22nd, 2011 10:00-13:30 Under Auspices of MEP Catherine Trautmann Organized by TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) PLEASE SEND Name, Birthdate, address and passport number by June 17th to david@davidhammerstein.org…