Update: Masnick’s post USTR Releases Ridiculous ‘Naughty’ Special 301 List For Countries Who Don’t Pass Silly Laws Hollywood Wants.
Also discussed in LFFS, ch. 15, at n.19 and accompanying text.
From StephanKinsella.com (see also my post Examples of American Imperialism Disguised as Spreading “Free Market” Ideas):
Intellectual Property Imperialism
by STEPHAN KINSELLA on SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
Collecting previous posts and other links about IP imperialism (efforts by the US and other western countries to strongarm developing or other nations into adopting US-style IP laws:
- Cory Doctorow, Wikileaks cables reveal that the US wrote Spain’s proposed copyright law
- Hatch’s “International IP Piracy Priority Watch List”;
- IP Imperialism (Russia, Intellectual Property , and the WTO);
- Russian Free Trade and Patents, Mises Blog (Sept. 22, 2006);
- Bush Wants More Jailed Citizens in Russia and China;
- China, India like US Patent Reform, Mises Blog (Dec. 10, 2007);
- Stop the ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement);
- Cory Doctorow, How ACTA will change the world’s internet laws;
- Mike Masnick, Canadian Recording Industry Claims That Canadian Copyright Proposal Is A $5k License To Infringe (regarding US diplomatic pressure on Canada to adopt DMCA-style provisions).
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