It proposes to create a Commission of Intellectual Property enabling it to shut down any website for infringing copyright (such as sites with links to torrents) without judicial intervention.
The government could have shut down entire sites for minor or mistaken violations of copyright, such as your post of your kids birthday party video on YouTube, in which everyone is singing Happy Birthday to You. That song is copyrighted.
For example, the EFF has slammed TPP's stance on copyright, such as the extension of copyright terms and prohibition on circumvention of DRM, writing in an analysis last month: "If you look for provisions in the TPP that actually afford new benefits to users, rather than to large, rights-holding corporations, you will look in vain".
You can only use a CC license on works that can be copyrighted, such as: books, scripts, websites, lesson plans, blogs and any other forms of writings; photographs and other visual images; films, video games and other visual materials; musical compositions, sound recordings and other audio works.
This is the biggest intellectual-property securitisation by far, says Jordan Yarett of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a law firm that has worked on many such deals.Securitisations of intellectual property can be based on revenues from copyrights, trademarks (such as logos) or patents.
"What this means is that companies could sue any of the TPP nations for introducing rules that they allege harm their right to exploit their copyright interests — such as new rights to use copyrighted works for some public interest purpose.
If the argument is successful the only salvation for American's may be Congress passing laws like other countries have that makes personal copying legal, but don't hold your breath; Congress is too busy trying to pass laws that would strengthen copyright sanctions (such as with the PRO IP Act) and copyright offenders don't make sizable donations to election campaigns, do they :-).
Twitter will respond to reports of alleged copyright infringement, such as allegations concerning the unauthorized use of a copyrighted image as a profile photo, header photo, or background, allegations concerning the unauthorized use of a copyrighted video or image uploaded through our media hosting services, or Tweets containing links to allegedly infringing materials.
Two other clauses were passed, raising the maximum penalty for a criminal conviction for copyright infringement, such as copying DVDs, to £50,000; and absolving libraries of copyright infringeemnt for lending ebooks and audiobooks.
EME is designed to allow publishers to invoke global copyright rules, such as the European Union Copyright Directive and the US's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits tampering with a digital lock, even for legal purposes.
