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Your life will some day end; ACTA will live on
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) isn’t just another secret treaty—it’s a way of life. If ACTA passes in anything like its current form, it will create an entirely new international secretariat to administer and extend the agreement. Knowledge Ecology International got its hands on more of the leaked ACTA text this week , including a chapter on “Institutional Arrangements” that has not leaked before.
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Continue reading »EU Commission on ACTA – ‘There is no Treaty’
It appears as though confusion and mixed signals continue to plague the EU commission in more than one committee. Movement in North America on ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) may have slowed down today, but the issue is definitely heating up in Europe. Fresh on the heals of the IMCA experiencing difficulty in understanding ACTA , the INTA (European Parliament’s Trade committee) committee had some more dramatic commentary in the European parliament.
Continue reading »World, get ready for the DMCA: ACTA’s Internet chapter leaks
The oddest thing about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) secrecy is that, whenever we see leaked drafts of the text, there’s nothing particularly “secret” about them. That was also the case with this weekend’s leak of the “Internet enforcement” section of the ACTA draft; as we’ve noted in the past, ACTA appears to be a measure to extend the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to the rest of the world , and that’s exactly what the Internet section tries to do. IDG News saw the draft text of the Internet section last week , but the actual document has now leaked (PDF).
Continue reading »Adding up the explanations for ACTA’s "shameful secret"
Why is an intellectual property treaty being negotiated in the name of the US public kept quiet as a matter of national security and treated as “some shameful secret”? Solid information on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been hard to come by, but Google on Monday hosted a panel discussion on ACTA at its DC offices . Much of the discussion focused on transparency, and why there’s so little of it on ACTA, even from an administration that has made transparency one of its key goals.
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