Due senatori USA chiedono trasparenza sui negoziati ACTA

Ne avevo gia' accennato in alcuni post, tra cui questo. Con alcuni colleghi sostenevo che aldila' del telecom package a bruxelles, le maggiori perplessità e rischi mi venivano dai trattati ACTA che gia' dall'anno scorso erano caratterizzati dal grande segreto dei contenuti; un anno dopo qualcosa era trapelato.

Ora i senatori USA  Brown e Sanders scrivono una lettera dai toni molto fermi all'ambasciatore Kirk, capo dell'US Trade representative, un dipartimento della casa bianca che segue le trattative, chiedendo la trasparenza negli atti delle negoziazioni che sarebbe sostenuta non tanto per ragioni di sicurezza nazionale (come preteso dagli uffici), bensi' per non affrontare le critiche.

Scarica Sanders_brown_acta (pdf)

ACTA involves dozens if not hundreds of substantive aspects of intellectual property law and its enforcement, including those that have nothing to do with counterfeiting.

...There are concerns about the impact of ACTA on the privacy and civil rights of individuals, on the supply of products under the first sale doctrine, on the markets for legitimate generic medicines, and on consumers and innovation in general."

...We are surprised and unpersuaded by assertions that disclosures of basic information about the negotiation would present a risk to the national security of the United States, particularly as regards documents that are shared with all countries in the negotiations, and with dozens of representatives of large corporations. We are concerned that the secrecy of such information reflects a desire to avoid potential criticism of substantive provisions in ACTA by the public, the group who will be most affected by the agreement. Such secrecy has already undermined public confidence in the ACTA process, a point made recently by Dan Glickman, the CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) - a group highly supportive of the ACTA negotiation, as well as by the members of the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue -- a group more critical of the negotiations.

We firmly believe that the public has a right to know the contents of the proposals being considered under ACTA, just as they have the right to read the text of bills pending before Congress.

Bravi! qualcuno lo fara' anche in Italia ???