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EC's ACTA Negotiator Devigne: Rejected U.S. "Blackmail"
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| Luc Devigne, the European Commission's lead
| ACTA negotiator, recently appeared before
| the International Trade Committee which
| brought together Members of the European
| Parliament and ACTA negotiators. Sources
| say Devigne revealed several key things:
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| * the release of the draft ACTA text
| may be a one-time deal. There are no
| current plans to release the updated
| text following future rounds of talks.
| * Devigne reportedly told the MEPs that
| the EC successfully rejected U.S.
| "blackmail", a reference to U.S.
| demands for changes on the scope of
| ACTA in return for greater
| transparency.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5029/125/
Moving ACTA to WIPO
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| The request of the European Parliament is
| no good idea at all but it certainly
| expresses it concerns about the planned
| ACTA governance model.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/moving-acta-to-wipo/
EU-INDIA policy laundry or: ACTA as it was meant to be
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| When the interested public and Parliament
| fails to spot undesirable measures in ACTA
| (cast light on it) weâll get it anyway,
| sneaked through a bilateral route, because
| Commission trade specialists want it so.
| Domestic effects of institutional activism
| and forum shopping. The process
| demonstrates us how trade policy severely
| undermines parliamentarian democracy when
| trade administration steps into merely
| regulatory matters, legislation not trade.
| I hate to admit that but maybe the
| globalisation critics were right with their
| fierce criticism of the EU- âGlobal Europeâ
| strategy spirit.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/eu-india-or-acta-as-it-was-meant-to-be/
Recent:
How ACTA Exports Worst Of US Copyright Law Without Corresponding Exceptions
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| And, of course, the rationale for all of
| this? It's based on studies that our own
| government now says were bogus.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100428/1416549224.shtml
ACTA written declaration: 223 signatures to go!
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| La Quadrature du Net has sent a letter to
| the Members of the European Parliament who
| have yet to sign written declaration 12
| regarding ACTA, urging them to do so.
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-written-declaration-223-signatures-to-go
Indian Official: ACTA Out Of Sync With TRIPS and Public Health
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| All the ânoble announcementsâ made by EU
| and US officials about respect for the Doha
| Declaration on intellectual property trade
| and public health when negotiating the
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
| does not match the ACTA text, warned
| Ashutosh Jindal, adviser at the Embassy of
| India to the EU at a hearing organised by
| the Green Party Group in Brussels
| yesterday. The much-debated agreement that
| has only recently been made public would be
| very hard on countries like India that are
| trying to balance competing public policy
| issues, IPR protection and public health.
| Jindal pointed to provisions like ex-
| officio actions by border personnel on all
| types of IP rights infringements, including
| not only trademark infringement. The bar
| for searches and seizures is proposed to be
| lowered to a mere suspect of
| counterfeiting. ACTA seems to be an attempt
| to force developing countries to much
| harsher IPR protection measures, he said.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2010/05/05/indian-official-acta-out-of-sync-with-trips-and-public-health/
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