ACTA

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/13/AR2009111300852_2.html?hpid=news-col-blog&sid=ST2009111300859

This article entitled "Copyright Overreach Goes on World Tour" is about a recent trade agreement, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which will potentially help globalize the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which has been in play for over 10 years, but is proving to be more controversial every day, as certain restrictions that are a part of it seem to downplay common sense. One example is that you cannot put a DVD purchase on your ipod because of this act, even though you are the owner of it. The countries involved in ACTA are the United States, South Korea, Japan, Canada, and parts of the European Union.

This article points out that this agreement would help to cement the user-hostile DMCA in place in the US, and give a possibility for a rather frightening future of intellectual property ownership and the laws surrounding it.