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Sweden Says It Won't Agree To ACTA If It Requires Any Changes To Swedish Or EU Laws
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| While US negotiators keep insisting that ACTA
| won't change US law, they're perfectly
| willing to admit that's not the case for
| other countries. That's why much of what the
| US is insisting on in ACTA looks like the
| US's quite problematic existing copyright law
| (minus a few consumer protections and with
| some "hints" at stricter compliance).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100303/1436038395.shtml
EU Apparently Agrees That ACTA Should Be More Transparent
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| As far as I can tell from the earlier list,
| we're now down to Singapore, South Korea and
| the US. That's odd, because Singapore, South
| Korea and the US already have trade
| agreements of this nature. In fact, much of
| ACTA is actually based on the agreement
| between the US and South Korea -- which is
| already proving problematic for those in
| South Korea.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100305/1237468441.shtml
Recent:
NZ Doing Good in ACTA Negotiation
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| The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
| is an agreement between countries around IP
| rights and enforcement. The negotiations have
| been happening in secret, with every country
| saying âwell, weâd love to reveal what weâre
| talking about but those other countries just
| wonât let usâ. Fortunately there have been
| leaks, and the latest is a fascinating glimpse
| at how these things are put together and where
| the parties stand.
|
| It seems bizarre at first, but the draft is
| laid out like a spreadsheet: one article per
| row and with three columns, one each for the
| US/Japan version, the EU version, and
| comments. Inside each sentence square
| brackets mark the attributed proposed
| alternatives for language.
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http://nathan.torkington.com/blog/2010/03/01/nz-acta-negotiation/
German Justice Minister: ACTA Transparency And No Three Strikes
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| German Justice Minister Leutheusser-
| Schnarrenberger tells Spiegel Online that
| Germany would like to see the full draft
| ACTA texts released now and that the
| country will not accept inclusion of a
| three strikes system nor adopt such a
| system domestically.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4836/196/
The ACTA Conspiracy
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| What is often not understood, the planned
| ACTA is negotiated among a coalition of
| the willing. It is not primarily targeted
| at the nations which sit at the
| negotiations table but it aims at third
| nations, in particular emerging nations
| and BRIC. TRIPS included IPR âminimum
| standardsâ under the premise of their
| misuse as a barrier to trade. The current
| ACTA negotiations leave that premise
| totally out of sight, negotiators are not
| aware of the difference or argue that is
| was just enforcement, not substantive
| provisions. The actual usefulness of ACTA
| lies in its applications beyond its
| original members.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/the-acta-conspiracy/
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