Does that mean I could poison the Archive by posting IP on this list, or poison someone else's code if they use some of mine that I post here?
B. On Feb 4, 2016, at 7:48 PM, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@effectivedefense.org> wrote: > It's not clear if the TPP would ever directly impact the R project. > However, it could impact many R users. > > > * For example, if someone decides that something you have on the > web includes material for which they claim copyright, the TPP allows them to > order your Internet Service Provider to take down your web site. No court > order is required. No proof is required. If you want to contest, the > dispute might go through the "Investor-State Dispute Settlement" process, > where the issue will be judged by people essentially selected by > multinational businesses. (Article 18, Section J.) [Phillip Morris Tobacco > Company has already sued Uruguay, Australia and Norway over packaging > requirements that has actually been effective in reducing tobacco consumption > in those countries. Former New York City Mayor Bloomberg has been paying > legal fees for Uruguay, because they can't afford the legal fees. Tobacco is > explicitly excluded from the TPP, but similar suits could be brought over > other types of products or services.] This could include some algorithm > you've coded into R, if some company decides you're using their copyrighted > algorithm or whatever without paying for it. Current US copyright law covers > "derivative works", which could be almost anything. This sounds far fetched. > However, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued four > college students for close to $100 billion, because their improvements of > search engines made it easier for people in a university intranet to find > copyrighted music placed by others in their "public" folder. The attorney > uncle of one of those four told his nephew that it would cost him a million > dollars to defend himself, and there would be no way he could recoup that > money even if he won. In negotiations, they asked the student how much money > he had. He said he had saved $12,000 for college. They took it. Major media > organizations similarly sued Venture Capitalists who funded Napster and > Lawyers who advised MP3.com that they had reasonable grounds to that MP3's > business model was legal. The Napster funders and MP3 lawyers similarly knew > they could not afford to defend themselves and settled. [Wikipedia, "Free > Culture (book)"; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)] > > > Other parts of the TPP are highly undemocratic but may not relate as > closely to R as the provision I just mentioned. > > > * The provision that worries me the most is Article 18.78 on > “Trade Secrets”. This broadly criminalizes “unauthorized and willful > disclosure of a trade secret”. This doesn't sound bad, except that a "trade > secret" could include documentation of criminal behavior. This substantially > increases risks for journalists and whistleblowers. For example The Guardian > could be sued for having published documents released by Ed Snowden -- even > though what Snowden did was expose perjury by James Clapper, US Director of > National Intelligence. > (http://tumblr.fightforthefuture.org/post/132605875893/final-tpp-text-confirms-worst-fears-shadowy) > > > * Article 18.63 "forces the most draconian parts of the U.S.’s > broken copyright system on the rest of the world without expanding > protections for fair use and free speech. This section requires countries to > enforce copyright until 70 years after the creator’s death. This will keep an > enormous amount of information, art, and creativity out of the public domain > for decades longer than necessary, and allow for governments to abuse > copyright laws to censor online content at will, since so much of it will be > copyrighted for so long." > (http://tumblr.fightforthefuture.org/post/132605875893/final-tpp-text-confirms-worst-fears-shadowy) > > > > * The TPP could also make the Internet less secure. For example, > the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that, "With no good rationale, the > agreement would outlaw a country from adopting rules for the sale of software > that include mandatory code review or the release of source code. This could > inhibit countries from addressing pressing information security problems, > such as widespread and massive vulnerability in closed-source home routers." > (www.eff.org/issues/tpp) > > > I hope you find this interesting and useful even if some of it is off > topic. > > > Spencer Graves > > > On 2/4/2016 5:15 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: >> >> >> Quite a while ago I went to talk (I think it may have been at an NZSA >> conference) given by the great Ross Ihaka. I forget the details but >> my vague recollection was that it involved a technique for automatic >> choice of some sort of smoothing parameter involved in a graphical >> display. Apparently Ross's ideas related peripherally to some patented >> technique owned by Texas Instruments, and TI was causing problems for >> Ross. He seemed to be of the opinion that the TPP would make matters >> worse. >> >> I suspect he's right. It will make matters worse for everyone except >> the rich bastards in the multinationals, in all respects. >> >> cheers, >> >> Rolf >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
