This is another call for support from our friends in Korea, as a result of trade negotiations with the US. Please forward as widely as possible, >Dear all, > >This is another comment on the copyright issues in the Korea-US FTA. > >Best, >PatchA > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: IPLeft <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Tue, 21, Mar 2006 18:34:02 +0900 >Subject: [A2k] (Korea-US FTA) Seeking signatures on COPYRIGHT comment >To: [log in to unmask] > > > >South Korea and United States are preparing for the FTA negotiation. >On the negotiation agenda, intellectual property issues are given a >top priority. IPLeft and other NGOs prepared a written comment >(download at http://www.ipleft.or.kr/fta/20060324-CoalitionLetterofNGOs-copyright.pdf) >on copyright issues that will be submitted to the USTR. Written >comments are due by noon, March 24, 2006 via e-mail. IPLeft is seeking >signature from many individuals and organizations in U.S on this >comment. People and organizations that want to join this effort and >put their names on the written comment, please reply to >[log in to unmask] with their names and addresses (post address, Web >site address or/and e-mail address) BY MIDNIGHT, MARCH 23, 2006. If >you know people or organizations that might want to join as a >signatory, please forward this e-mail message to them. > >I ask you to keep up on with the future development of the South >Korea-U.S. FTA negotiation and to be a part of this fight against it. > >The following paragraphs are excerpted from the written comment: > >We strongly oppose the inclusion of the copyright clause in the >current FTA negotiation between Korea and the United States. > >Considering the FTA that the United States negotiated with Singapore, >Australia, and Chile, and what the United States has been demanding >from the Korean government thus far, we assume that the United States >will request copyright protection similar to or stronger than the >United States copyright laws such as the 1998 DMCA(Digital Millennium >Copyright Act). > >However, the DMCA and extending the copyright protection period in the >Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) have been under much >criticism because it obstructs fair use, science research, technology >advancement, and publishing. Furthermore, there are strong concerns >about how it impedes computer security research. Nonetheless, United >States has been imposing their own copyright laws on other countries >by adopting laws similar to the DMCA in the FTA. Among them, we cannot >allow the extension of the copyright protection period to 70 years or >setting the penalty for circumventing the technical measures for >protection at the broad level of the laws in the United States because >these clauses violate the fundamental principles of the copyright >laws. The United States must stop such demands on the Korean >government immediately. > >Nam Hee-seob, Chairperson of Intellectual Property Left >Jungbongwon Bd. 5F, 502, 1-13, >Chungpa-dong 1ga,Yongsan-gu, >Seoul, Korea (140-868) >Website) http://www.ipleft.or.kr Dept. of Media Studies, University of San Francisco. 2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, California 94117-1080. 415-422-5061 [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: Aliza Dichter <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:03 am Subject: Fwd: letter on korean screen quota - sign on by March 23! > ( una carta en la ayuda del cuota de la película Koreano) > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Frannie Wellings <[log in to unmask]> > > Date: March 22, 2006 11:22:23 AM EST > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: [cc-mediareform] letter on korean screen quota - sign on > by > > March 23! > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm hoping organizations on this list can sign on in support of > the > > attached letter prepared by the International Network for > Cultural > > Diversity. The letter concerns the Korean Screen Quota which > protects > > the Korean film industry and Korean culture and is currently > > threatened by free trade negotiations between the United States > of > > America and the Republic of Korea. > > > > In January 2006, Korea announced it is reducing its movie > theater > > screen quota system by 50 percent, effective July 2006. As the > letter > > states, the INCD believes the US negotiation "interferes with the > > democratic will of the Korean people to have their political > > representatives protect and promote Korean culture." For more > > information, read the letter below from Garry Neil and James Early. > > > > To sign on or if you have any questions, contact Garry Neil at > > [log in to unmask] or 416.268.5665. Deadline for signatures is > > tomorrow, March 23rd! > > > > Thank you, > > > > Frannie > > > > > > > > >