[free-sklyarov] Hague Convention

[James S. Huggins (Free Sklyarov)]

Again, of peripheral interest (fair use rights)

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August 2, 2001.
Statement of Consumer Project on Technology director James Love on the new
Hague Convention draft.
Please feel free to quote.

"The new test goes too far to protect e-commerce firms and publishers while
ignoring the persistent and well-articulated concerns of civil society. In
the area of speech the new draft is a threat and there will be wide
exposure to defamation under the Hague Convention. It is a recipe for the
free software movement to be hounded and harassed around the world and it
will force countries to take from their consumers their rights to use their
own courts for a wide range of transactions. It poses a threat to scholars
and teachers because it will erode fair use rights that many people
currently enjoy in many countries."