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Google attorney slams ACTA copyright treaty
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| An attorney for Google slammed a
| controversial intellectual property treaty
| on Friday, saying it has "metastasized"
| from a proposal to address border security
| and counterfeit goods to an international
| legal framework sweeping in copyright and
| the Internet.
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| The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or
| ACTA, is "something that has grown in the
| shadows, Gollum-like," without public
| scrutiny, Daphne Keller, a senior policy
| counsel in Mountain View, Calif., said at a
| conference at Stanford University.
|
| Both the Obama administration and the Bush
| administration had rejected requests from
| civil libertarians and technologists for
| the text of ACTA, with the White House last
| year even indicating that disclosure would
| do "damage to the national security." After
| pressure from the European Parliament,
| however, negotiators released the draft
| text two weeks ago.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20004450-38.html
Huge seizure of Indian generic drugs at EU ports; India, global NGOs cry foul
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| Generic drugs from India which are meant
| for Latin American countries have been
| seized by European port authorities
| alleging infringement of intellectual
| property rights.
|
| The Indian generic drugs shipments, which
| were headed for Peru, Columbia, Ecuador,
| Mexico and many other countries, included
| medicines for treatment for AIDS, Cardiac
| problem, schizophrenia, dementia.
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http://www.dancewithshadows.com/pillscribe/huge-seizure-of-indian-generic-drugs-at-eu-ports-india-global-ngos-cry-foul/
(EU countries are confiscating generic anti-HIV drugs)
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| EU countries are confiscating generic anti-
| HIV drugs made in India and being sent to
| various poor countries.
|
| This article spreads confusion when it
| refers to patents as "intellectual
| property", using the terms interchangeably.
| (I am sure the author does not realize how
| harmful that term is as propaganda.)
|
| The EU's attempt to confuse generic drugs
| with fake drugs is part of another
| propaganda campaign, which calls copying
| "counterfeiting". ACTA is an instance of
| that nastiness.
|
| The governments which have confiscated the
| drugs are evidently more concerned with
| corporate profits than with human lives.
| Their actions as of this moment endanger
| people in poor countries, but I am sure
| they are just as glad to threaten the
| inhabitants of their own countries when
| they can get away with it.
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http://www.stallman.org/archives/2010-mar-jun.html#09%20May%202010%20%28EU%20countries%20are%20confiscating%20generic%20anti-HIV%20drugs%29
Recent:
Border detention of counterfeit and/or "counterfeit" pharma products
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| So what is this 60 page document (which you
| can download here) all about? As ICTSD's
| website explains:
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| "The detentions of generic medicines in
| transit as a result of the
| implementation by certain countries of
| border measures, which go beyond the
| minimum standards set by the TRIPS
| Agreement, have attracted international
| attention. At the same time, such
| measures are often considered, by these
| countries, as instrumental in the fight
| against the circulation of
| âcounterfeitâ medicines [The Kat thinks
| these countries, in so far as they are
| personified, are concerned with
| counterfeits, not "counterfeits". The
| agenda of specific rights owners may be
| a different matter]. Clearly, the
| border measures in question raise
| complex legal and technical issues
| under the rules of the World Trade
| Organization (WTO).
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2010/05/border-detention-of-counterfeit-andor.html
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