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We regret the error.</em></p> <p><a href="https://www.eff.org/mexican-copyright-jul-2020.pdf"><strong>Download all the posts in this series as a single PDF.</strong></a></p> <p>Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins a coalition of international organizations in <a href="https://www.derechosdigitales.org/wp-content/uploads/USMCA-MEX.pdfhttps://www.derechosdigitales.org/14755/mexican-congress-implementation-of-usmca-ip-provisions-threatens-democracy-and-digital-rights/">publishing an open letter of opposition to Mexico's new copyright law</a>; the letter lays out the threats that Mexico's new law poses to fundamental human rights and calls upon Mexico's <a href="//www.cndh.org.mx/”">National Human Rights Commission</a> to take action to invalidate this flawed and unsalvageable law.</p> <p>In a rushed process without meaningful consultation or debate, <a href="https://r3d.mx/2020/07/01/nicensuranicandados-condenamos-la-aprobacion-de-reformas-que-establecen-mecanismos-de-censura-en-internet-y-criminalizan-la-elusion-de-candados-digitales/">Mexico's Congress has adopted a new copyright law</a> modeled <a href="https://businessinsider.mx/notificacion-y-retirada-reforma-ley-derechos-de-autor-mexico-tmec/">on the U.S. system</a>, without taking any account of the well-publicized, widely acknowledged <a href="//www.eff.org/copyrightweek”">problems with American copyright law</a>. The new law was passed as part of a package of legal reforms accompanying the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), Donald Trump's 2020 successor to 1989's North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).</p> <p>However, Mexico's implementation of this Made-in-America copyright system imposes far more restrictions than either the USMCA demands or that Canada or the USA have imposed on themselves. This new copyright regime places undue burdens on Mexican firms and the Mexican people, conferring a permanent trade advantage on the richer, more developed nations of the USA and Canada, while undermining the fundamental rights of Mexicans guaranteed by the Mexican Constitution and the <a href="https://www.oas.org/en/iachr/expression/docs/reports/2014_04_08_Internet_ENG%20_WEB.pdf">American Convention on Human Rights.</a></p> <p>The <a href="https://participa.nicensuranicandados.org/">opposition that </a><a href="https://r3d.mx/2020/07/01/nicensuranicandados-condenamos-la-aprobacion-de-reformas-que-establecen-mecanismos-de-censura-en-internet-y-criminalizan-la-elusion-de-candados-digitales/">sprang up</a> after the <a href="//www.derechosdigitales.org/14673/pero-que-necesidad-los-derechos-humanos-no-son-moneda-de-cambio/”">swift passage of the new Mexican copyright law</a> faces many barriers, but among the most serious ones is a disinformation campaign that (predictably) characterizes the claims about U.S. copyright law as "<a href="//www.etcetera.com.mx/opinion/no-iras-carcel-reparar-celular/””">fake news</a>". The EFF has more experience with the defects of U.S. copyright law than anyone, and in these coming days we will use it to explain in detail how Mexico's copyright law repeats and magnifies the errors that American lawmakers committed in 1998.</p> <p>In 1998, the U.S. adopted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law whose problems the US government has documented in exquisite detail in the decades since. <a href="https://www.copyright.gov/policy/1201/">By the U.S. government's own account</a>, the DMCA presents serious barriers to:</p> <ul> <li>free expression;</li> <li>national resiliency;</li> <li>economic self-determination;</li> <li>the rights of people with disabilities;</li> <li>cybersecurity;</li> <li>independent repair;</li> <li>education;</li> <li>archiving;</li> <li>access to knowledge; and</li> <li>competition.</li> </ul> <p>Despite these manifest defects, the U.S. government successfully pressured Canada into adopting substantially similar legislation in 2011 with <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/canadas-c-11-bill-and-hazards-digital-locks-provisions">the passage of Canada's Bill C-11</a>.</p> <p>In a series of posts over the coming days, we will elucidate the ways in which the Mexican copyright bill imposes undue and unique burdens on Mexico, Mexican people, and Mexican industry, and what lessons Mexico <em>should</em> have learned from the U.S. and Canadian experience with this one-sided, overreaching version of copyright for the digital world.</p> <p>In 1998, the US tragically failed to see the import of getting the rules for the Internet right, passing a copyright law that treated the Internet as a glorified entertainment medium. When Canada adopted its law in 2011, it had no excuse for missing the fact that the Internet had become the world's digital nervous system, a medium where we transact our civics and politics; our personal, familial and romantic lives; our commerce and employment; our health and our education.</p> <p>But these failings pale in comparison to the dereliction of Mexican lawmakers in importing this system to Mexico. The pandemic and its lockdown made it clear that everything we do not only involves the Internet: it <em>requires</em> the Internet. In today's world, it is absolutely inexcusable for a lawmaker to regulate the net as though it were nothing more than a glorified video-on-demand service.</p> <p>Mexico's prosperity depends on getting this right. Even more: the human rights of the Mexican people require that the Congress of Mexico or the Mexican Court get this right.</p> <p><a href="https://www.derechosdigitales.org/wp-content/uploads/USMCA-MEX.pdfhttps://www.derechosdigitales.org/14755/mexican-congress-implementation-of-usmca-ip-provisions-threatens-democracy-and-digital-rights/">Read the letter from EFF, Derechos Digitales and NGOs around the world to Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission here</a>.</p> <p>If you are based in Mexico, we urge you to participate in R3D's campaign "<a href="https://participa.nicensuranicandados.org/">Ni Censura ni Candados</a>" and send a letter to Mexico's National Commission for Human Rights to asking them to invalidate this new flawed copyright law. R3D will ask for your name, email address, and your comment, which will be subject to R3D's <a href="https://participa.nicensuranicandados.org/aviso-de-privacidad/">privacy policy</a>.</p> <p><strong>Other posts in this series:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.eff.org/mexican-copyright-jul-2020.pdf"><strong>Download all the posts in this series as a single PDF</strong></a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/how-mexicos-new-copyright-law-crushes-free-expression">How Mexico's New Copyright Law Crushes Free Expression</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-cybersecurity-and-human-rights">Mexico's New Copyright Law: Cybersecurity and Human Rights</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/disability-education-repair-and-health-how-mexicos-copyright-law-hurts-self"> Disability, Education, Repair and Health: How Mexico's Copyright Law Hurts Self-Determination in the Internet Age</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-undermines-mexicos-national-sovereignty-continuing">Mexico's New Copyright Law Undermines Mexico's National Sovereignty, Continuing Generations of Unfair "Fair Trade Deals" Between the USA and Latin America</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/legal-deep-dive-mexicos-disastrous-new-copyright-law">A Legal Deep Dive on Mexico’s Disastrous New Copyright Law</a></li> </ul> </div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-issue"> <h2 class="pane-title">Related Issues</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-taxonomy-term-reference field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><a href="/issues/trade-agreements">Trade Agreements and Digital Rights</a></div><div class="field__item odd"><a href="/issues/international">International</a></div></div></div> </div> <div class="panel-pane pane-eff-share-blog mobile"> <div class="share-links"> <strong>Share It</strong> <a class="share-twitter" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Mexico%27s%20New%20Copyright%20Law%20Puts%20Human%20Rights%20in%20Jeopardy&url=https%3A//www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-puts-human-rights-jeopardy&via=eff&related=eff" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"><span class="element-invisible">Share on Twitter</span><i></i></a> <a class="share-facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https%3A//www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-puts-human-rights-jeopardy&title=Mexico%27s%20New%20Copyright%20Law%20Puts%20Human%20Rights%20in%20Jeopardy" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"><span class="element-invisible">Share on Facebook</span><i></i></a> <a class="share-clipboard disabled" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-puts-human-rights-jeopardy" title="Copy to clipboard"><span class="element-invisible">Copy link</span><i></i></a> <div style="clear: both"></div> </div> </div> <div class="panel-pane pane-effector-signup"> <h2 class="pane-title">Join EFF Lists</h2> <form action="https://supporters.eff.org/subscribe" method="post" class="newsletter-form" accept-charset="UTF-8"> <h3 class="effector-title">Discover more.</h3> <div class="effector-desc"> Email updates on news, actions, events in your area, and more.</div> <div class="form-item form-type-textfield effector-form-item-email-address"> <label for="edit-email" style="display:none">Email Address</label> <input placeholder="Email Address" type="email" name="email" value="" maxlength="128" class="form-text" /> </div> <div class="form-item form-type-textfield effector-form-item-postal-code"> <label for="edit-postal-code" style="display:none">Postal Code (optional) </label> <input placeholder="Postal Code (optional)" type="text" name="postal_code" value="" maxlength="64" class="form-text" /> </div> <div class="form-item form-type-textfield effector-form-item-challenge"> <label for="edit-challenge" style="clear: left; text-transform: none">Anti-spam question: Enter the three-letter abbreviation for <em>Electronic Frontier Foundation</em>:</label> <input type="text" name="challenge" value="" maxlength="3" size="6" class="form-text" /> </div> <div class="link-textfield"> <div class="form-item form-type-urlfield form-item-link"> <label for="edit-link">Don't fill out this field (required)</label> <input autocomplete="off" type="url" id="edit-link" name="link" value="" size="20" maxlength="128" class="form-text form-url"> </div> </div> <input type="submit" name="op" value="Submit" class="effector-form-submit" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="eff_supporters_library_subscribe_form" /> <div class="thank-you"> Thanks, you're awesome! 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freedom...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2020/07/legal-deep-dive-mexicos-disastrous-new-copyright-law"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/mexico-copyright-1.jpg?itok=wj3y9o8x" width="500" height="250" alt="" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/kit-walsh">Kit Walsh</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 30, 2020</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2020/07/legal-deep-dive-mexicos-disastrous-new-copyright-law" rel="bookmark">A Legal Deep Dive on Mexico’s Disastrous New Copyright Law</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>Mexico has just adopted a terrible new copyright law, thanks to pressure from the United States (and specifically from the copyright maximalists that hold outsized influence on US foreign policy).This law closely resembles the Digital Millennium Copyright Act enacted in the US 1998, with a few differences that make it...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div 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field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>Earlier this month, Mexico's Congress <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-puts-human-rights-jeopardy">hastily imported most of the US copyright system</a> into Mexican law, in a dangerous and ill-considered act. But neither this action nor its consequences occurred in a vacuum: rather, it was a consequence of <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/new-north-american-trade-deal-has-bad-news-canadian-copyright">Donald Trump's US-Mexico-Canada Agreement</a> (USMCA), the successor to NAFTA.Trade...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2020/07/disability-education-repair-and-health-how-mexicos-copyright-law-hurts-self"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/mexico-copyright-1.jpg?itok=wj3y9o8x" width="500" height="250" alt=" " /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/cory-doctorow">Cory Doctorow</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 30, 2020</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2020/07/disability-education-repair-and-health-how-mexicos-copyright-law-hurts-self" rel="bookmark">Disability, Education, Repair and Health: How Mexico's Copyright Law Hurts Self-Determination in the Internet Age</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>Mexico's <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-puts-human-rights-jeopardy">new copyright law</a> was rushed through Congress without adequate debate or consultation, and that's a problem, because the law -- a wholesale copy of the US copyright system -- creates unique risks to the human rights of the Mexican people, and the commercial fortunes of Mexican businesses and...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-cybersecurity-and-human-rights"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/mexico-copyright-1.jpg?itok=wj3y9o8x" width="500" height="250" alt="" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/cory-doctorow">Cory Doctorow</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 29, 2020</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-cybersecurity-and-human-rights" rel="bookmark">Mexico's New Copyright Law: Cybersecurity and Human Rights</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>This month, Mexico <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-puts-human-rights-jeopardy">rushed through a new, expansive copyright law</a> without adequate debate or consultation, and as a result, it adopted a national rule that is absolutely unfit for purpose, with grave implications for human rights and cybersecurity.The new law was passed as part of the country's obligations under...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2020/07/how-mexicos-new-copyright-law-crushes-free-expression"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/mexico-copyright-1.jpg?itok=wj3y9o8x" width="500" height="250" alt="" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/cory-doctorow">Cory Doctorow</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 27, 2020</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2020/07/how-mexicos-new-copyright-law-crushes-free-expression" rel="bookmark">How Mexico's New Copyright Law Crushes Free Expression</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>When Mexico's Congress <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-puts-human-rights-jeopardy">rushed through a new copyright law</a> as part of its adoption of Donald Trump's United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), it largely <a href="https://piedepagina.mx/reformas-a-la-ley-de-derecho-de-autor-criminalizan-y-fomentan-la-desigualdad/">copy-pasted the US copyright statute</a>, with some modifications that made the law even worse for human rights.The result is a legal regime that has all...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a 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recognition of her digital rights and privacy work around the globe, EFF International Rights Director <a href="https://www.cnet.com/es/noticias/electronic-frontier-foundation-katitza-rodriguez/">Katitza Rodríguez</a> was named by <a href="https://www.cnet.com/">CNET</a> as one of the most <a href="https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2018/09/19/los-20-latinos-mas-influyentes-de-la-industria-de-la-tecnologia-en-2018/">influential Latinos in technology</a> this year.We’re delighted to see <a href="https://twitter.com/txitua">Katitza</a> celebrated for her many years of advocacy on...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="teaser-thumbnail" style="background: #f7f7f7"><a href="/deeplinks/2018/04/us-ip-policy-spins-out-control-2018-special-301-report"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/og-tpp-chainedearth.png?itok=rj3nDvrb" width="500" height="250" alt="" /></a></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by Jeremy Malcolm</span> <span class="node-date"> | May 1, 2018</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2018/04/us-ip-policy-spins-out-control-2018-special-301-report" rel="bookmark">U.S. IP Policy Spins Out of Control in the 2018 Special 301 Report</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>Certain reports and publications from U.S. government agencies, such as those of the <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/you-always-wanted-read-crs-reports-now-you-can">Congressional Research Service</a>, have become important reference works due to their reputation for being relatively in-depth, up to date, and factual. The United States Trade Representative's (USTR) <a href="https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/Reports/2018%20Special%20301.pdf">Special 301 Report</a> [PDF], the latest annual edition...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2018/02/rcep-negotiations-face-obstacles-member-nations-unwilling-commit"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/tpp-handshake_0.png?itok=qnlyBFNC" width="500" height="250" alt="" /></a></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by Jyoti Panday</span> <span class="node-date"> | March 2, 2018</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2018/02/rcep-negotiations-face-obstacles-member-nations-unwilling-commit" rel="bookmark">The Post-TPP Future of Digital Trade in Asia</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>On March 8, trade representatives from eleven Pacific rim countries including Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Australia are expected to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership, now known as the <a href="https://www.mfat.govt.nz/assets/CPTPP/Comprehensive-and-Progressive-Agreement-for-Trans-Pacific-Partnership-CPTPP-English.pdf">Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership</a> (CPTPP). 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