[A2k] ACTING AGAINST ACTA

[james.love@keionline.org]

Alan,

How do Roberto Verzola's comments map into the ACTA negotiations?  Are
you suggesting people make political demands to address the brain drain
in the ACTA negotiation?  Jamie

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 20:36 +0100, Alan Story wrote:
> ACTING AGAINST ACTA
>
> 30 May
>
> As more details about the proposed ACTA pact continue to dribble out, the
> responses printed on this list, in IP Watch, and elsewhere rather miss th=
e
> main point, in my view.

    snip

> Instead, what we need more voices which directly challenge and
> contextualise ACTA=92s  piracy discourse. Read, for example, the words of=
 my
> friend Roberto Verzola of the Philippines (as quoted on page 73 of the
> Copy/South Dossier: www.copysouth.org)
>
> =93If it is a sin for the poor to steal from the rich, it must be a much
> bigger sin for the rich to steal from the poor. Don=92t rich countries
> pirate poor countries=92 best scientists, engineers, doctors, nurses and
> programmers? When global corporations come to operate in the Philippines,
> don=92t they pirate the best people from local firms? If it is bad for po=
or
> countries like ours to pirate the intellectual property of rich countries=
,
> isn=92t it a lot worse for rich countries like the US to pirate our
> intellectuals?
>
> In fact, we are benign enough to take only a copy, leaving the original
> behind; rich countries are so greedy that they take away the originals,
> leaving nothing behind.=94
>