CETA’s Intellectual Property Exposed to The Public

Some time ago we’ve informed our readers about a new dangerous treaty called CETA or the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. As it seems, a text of the Intellectual Property Chapter has leaked. Here are the details we’ve found out thanks to a ZeroPaid report . CETA is a trade agreement between Europe and Canada and its purpose is to fundamentally change intellectual property rights. Although at first the agreement seemed to be based on the one-strike policy, the leaked text indicates that CETA is very similar to the former ACTA. Dr. Michael Geist – Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa – argued that all the concerns within ACTA are magically appearing in CETA

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CETA’s Intellectual Property Exposed to The Public

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