Lecture: TTIP and Free Software

Threats and action plan

Two years after the rejection of ACTA by the European Parliament, new international agreements deeply worry digital rights defenders on both sides of the Atlantic. TAFTA/TTIP and CETA are deep and comprehensive free trade agreements currently being negotiated behind closed doors by the European Commission. If concluded, these agreements could have a negative impact on free software and free technology. Why? Why should we care? Who does currently care? What can we do within the next months?

From the little information we now have on TTIP and CETA, there are many reasons to worry. We identified several threats to the free software ecosystem and to digital freedoms. The agreements threaten positive reforms of copyright and patent law, could strengthen DRM protection, hinder laws giving priority to free software in public procurement, prevent strong regulations on data protection and make the enforcement of rules on net neutrality ineffective.

This talk will primarily be focused on 1) TTIP and free software, with an opening towards 2) the impact on digital rights in general, and if there is time left we will 3) debate the impact of TTIP and other agreements on all other sectors of interest.

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Day: 2014-11-01
Start time: 17:15
Duration: 00:45
Room: C444
Track: Code, data and infrastructure
Language: en

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