March 12th, 2009

Copyright treaty is classified for 'national security'

By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com

Last September, the Bush administration defended the unusual secrecy over an anti-counterfeiting treaty being negotiated by the U.S. government, which some liberal groups worry could criminalize some peer-to-peer file sharing that infringes copyrights...

The White House appears to be continuing the secretive policy of the Bush administration, which wrote to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (PDF) on January 16 that out of 806 pages related to the treaty, all but 10 were "classified in the interest of national security pursuant to Executive Order 12958."

Related Issues: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

Related Cases: FOIA: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

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