Breaking America's grip on the net: Effect on copyright?

[Sierra_Dad]

[technology.guardian.co.uk...]

While I am not very knowledgeable on the matter, I am under the impression that you can now get recourse for trademark / copyright under US law.

What would be the implications if this went to a "coalition" of nations, some of which don't care about copyright? In particular, I think that the DMCA notifications would lose teeth.

Those who know more please comment.

[andrea99]

Yes, if a coalition of governments gets control of the internet, copyright will be enforced much like "oil for food" and I'm not talking about salad dressing.

[oddsod]

Damn! From the title I thought you'd found a way to break America's grip on the net!

[Sierra_Dad]

@#! From the title I thought you'd found a way to break America's grip on the net!

Sorry to get your hopes up. But as the article suggests, there are "people working on that".

Whether they will succeed and whether it is a "good" thing is left as an exercise to the reader.

[BertieB]

Is it a good thing? Time will tell. It does have a certain "We're from the government[s], and we're here to help..." ring to it though.

On the coyright side of things, while I'm not a lawyer, I don't see this affecting DMCA filings to the likes of G and Y, since they are US-based companies and therefore have to follow US law. Besides, an EU council would have to follow the EUCD [en.wikipedia.org] in any case, which is very similar to the DMCA.

My understanding was that maintaining connectivity was the reason for the move, especially with regards to the recent problems between Cogent and Level 3.