"Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad."
This was the headline used by Cory Doctorow to break the news about ACTA to an unsuspecting Internet on November 3rd, 2009...

Great post by Cory Doctorow on the copyfight, battles at WIPO, and the future fight over ACTA.

Cory Doctorow just gets it. Here is what he said about copyright accusations. “The Internet’s a single wire that delivers freedom of speech, of assembly and of the press — it’s a conduit for civic engagement, health care, employment, education, distant family, love and life.

Cory Doctorow spoke some words of warning at the 28th Chaos Computing Club (CCC) about the legal-technological future. The themes handled included DRM, U-EFI, spyware and obviously copyright and internet policy. The speech is available as a 55 minute video and a transcript is available.

In his 2007 charitable giving guide, Science-fiction author Cory Doctorow writes:

"It's wonderful to see a campaigning group based on fighting DRM. Defective by Design has pulled off a number of audacious and clever actions that have raised public awareness of DRM. The fight starts here."

Fiction by Cory Doctorow.

Here's a synthesis of a few prominent ideas of what real copyright reform might look like.

"The Globe and Mail has put C-61, a bill to reform Canadian copyright law, on a wiki for editing..."

"There are several local organizations that are actively fighting against draconian copyright, patent and trade secret laws to restore some balance to the system..."