Brazil Drafts An ’Anti-ACTA’ : A Civil Rights-Based Framework For The Internet | Techdirt
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That’s no accident: #ACTA is the last-gasp attempt of the US and the EU to preserve their intellectual monopolies – #copyright and #patents, particularly drug patents – in a world where both are increasingly questioned.
Much of the challenge to the old order is coming from the BRICS group of emerging countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – none of which has been involved in ACTA. Of those, the one in the vanguard of adopting innovative approaches to making knowledge widely accessible in the Internet age is Brazil.
(...) here’s some positive news coming out of the country, in the shape of a draft of a bill for a civil rights-based framework for the #Internet: