Acta ignores reality

The foreign affairs committee of the Latvian parliament, the Saeima, discussed with experts last Wednesday the international Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (Acta) with which states hope to combat pirate products and copyright infringements. The liberal daily Diena finds the legislation too rigid and out of touch with reality: "One would like to believe that those who claim that all the fuss about Acta is exaggerated and that it won't affect citizens' lives in any way are right. Notwithstanding that, it is possible that these people are overlooking the fact that we infringe copyrights every day without even realising it. We're not talking about the downloading of films here but for example passing on emails without the author being informed. Therefore we should not be working on developing a new repressive mechanism but on producing a fundamental revision of the copyright concept that is more in accordance with reality."

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