Wkrótce zacznie się wprowadzanie poprawek do Konwencji Haskiej. Nie byłoby w tym nic nadzwyczajnego, gdyby nie fakt, że obecny projekt zmian zakłada m. in. uznawanie amerykańskiego prawa patentowego (części związanej z internetem) oraz możliwość cenzurowania europejskich site’ów internetowych niezgodnych z prawem jakiegoś kraju.
Oznacza to, że amerykański sąd będzie mógł nakazać zamknięcie dostępu do jakiejś witryny obywatelom amerykańskim. Taka sytuacja może wystąpić, gdy zgromadzone na niej informacje pogwałcają jeden z patentów lub amerykańskie prawo.
Teoretycznie istnieje szansa zamknięcia dostępu do danego serwera danej grupie adresów internetowych, jednak dzięki możliwości tworzenia tuneli nie sposób dziś wyłączyć jakąś grupę odbiorców, co oznacza, że jedynym sposobem spełnienia tych wymagań będzie usunięcie spornych materiałów.
Problem dotyczy również Polski, która podpisała Konwencje Haską wiele lat temu…
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 EuroLinux: U.S. Internet Patents to be Enforced in EU? (Jun 5th, 16:57:29 ) US Internet Patents to be Enforced in EU ? Hague Convention Draft Provides Legal Grounds for Global Internet Censorship EuroLinux Alliance / petition.EuroLinux.org Paris. 2001-06-05. The draft Hague Convention is to be revised from June 6th. The Hague Convention defines a set of provisions for the execution of foreign judgements in the event of international disputes. Current drafts include industrial property and intellectual property within the potential scope of the proposed Convention. If the current draft were approved, the Hague Convention would eventually allow: 1.to enforce US Internet patents in EU; 2.to enforce non-EU laws in order to censor EU Internet web sites. An EU company publishing on a server located in the EU a web service which provides Internet airplane reservation services worldwide could be sued in the US by PriceLine for infringement on patent 5,794,207. A US judge could decide that this EU company should block access to its service to US citizens unless it gets a license from PriceLine. Under the current draft of the Hague Convention, such a judgement would be enforceable in the EU. A researcher who publishes on a EU server an article on the weaknesses of encryption techniques used in the media industry (ex. CSS, SDMI, etc.) could be sued in the US for infringing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. A US judge could decide that this EU researcher should block access to its research article to all US citizens. Under the current draft of the Hague Convention, such a judgement would be enforceable in the EU. Because all known techniques to block access to a category of citizens, people, country or IP adresses can be easily circumvented through "email tunneling" (a technique which consists in encapsulating any Internet protocol into encrypted email messages), the only two ways of enforcing foreign judgements which entail blocking access to a server require either to close EU services or contents which infringe on foreign laws, thus creating the conditions for global censorship, or to prohibit encryption and deny privacy on the Internet. Members of the Hague Conference include all EU countries as well as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Latvia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Peru, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Suriname, Switzerland, Turkey, the United States of America, Uruguay and Venezuela. Some of these countries are well known for their agressive software patent practices or their restrictive laws on free speech. In particular, EuroLinux feels very concerned by the eventual enforceability of foreign Internet & software patents in Europe. EuroLinux urges members of the Hague Conference to put on hold current plans to extend the execution of foreign judgements in the fields of industial and intellectual property until their effects on software and the Internet have been carefully assessed. References CPT's Page on the Hague Conference on Private International Law's - http://www.cptech.org/ecom/jurisdiction/hague.html Hague Conference on Private International Law - http://www.hcch.net/f/conventions/draft36f.html Intellectual Property Draft - http://www.cptech.org/ecom/jurisdiction/IPWorkgroup3.pdf EuroLinux petition for a Software Patent Free Europe - http://petition.EuroLinux.org/ Printed from Linux Today (http://linuxtoday.com). http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-06-05-002-21-NW-BZ-CY - -- Hugo Gayosso Support Free Software Support the GNU Project http://www.gnu.org http://wildebeest.myip.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7HXv6MNObVRBZveYRAvT1AJ0R/2UFDr3qZQjIFUFVXqEfwJlQtQCfb+B5 FZPPQW8MkmQBgctrsA2sjyY= =4/Ou -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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