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ACTA Consensus on Transparency Breaks Down
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| The 9th round of ACTA talks concluded last
| week in Lucerne, Switzerland. I briefly
| noted the official statement last week, but
| a subsequent news report makes it clear that
| the most important development to come out
| of the meeting is the breakdown of a
| consensus on transparency. Following the
| New Zealand meeting in April, there was
| consensus achieved on the need to release a
| draft version of the text. It is now clear
| that the overwhelming majority of countries
| favoured continuing this approach by
| releasing updated versions at the conclusion
| of subsequent meetings. That did not happen
| after the Lucerne meeting, however, with
| both the Swiss and European Commission
| delegations indicating that they favoured
| releasing the text but that one delegation
| did not. It is a safe bet that the U.S. is
| once again the key holdout on the
| transparency issue.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5168/125/
INTA, ICC Oppose De Minimis Provision in ACTA
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5166/196/
Questions For ACTA Negotiators
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| Sean Flynn from the Program on Information
| Justice and Intellectual Property at
| American University, sent over the list of
| questions that he and a group of others
| concerned about ACTA are planning to ask the
| ACTA negotiators today in a meeting in
| Switzerland, where the latest round of ACTA
| negotiations are under way. The meeting is
| set to take place at 7pm Swiss time, which
| should be about 10am this morning California
| time.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100627/2221079975.shtml
The ACTA casino must be closed.
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/the-acta-casino-must-be-closed
EXCLUSIVE: Pictures of the ACTA negotiations
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/exclusive-pictures-of-the-acta-negotiations
Recent:
ACTA calls to urgently rethink patents and copyright (open letter)
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| Whatever the final text will be after the
| next negotiation rounds, the Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will
| remain an illegitimate agreement, by its
| elaboration process (beyond any democratic
| control) as well as its content (further
| strengthening of an outdated set of
| legislation). Access to medicine in the
| poorest countries and protection of
| citizens' fundamental rights in their
| usage of Internet and digital technologies
| are too crucial issues to be left out to
| the hazards of closed-doors negotiations.
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-calls-to-urgently-rethink-patents-and-copyright-open-letter
ACTA A Sign Of Weakness In Multilateral System, WIPO Head Says
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| The plurilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement (ACTA) and other such regional
| negotiations are a âbad developmentâ for
| multilateral agencies, the World
| Intellectual Property Organization
| director general has told Intellectual
| Property Watch.
|
| Asked about this weekâs ACTA negotiation
| in Lucerne, Switzerland (IPW, Enforcement,
| 26 June 2010), Gurry said it is an example
| of the difficulty of the United Nations
| and the rest of the multilateral system
| have providing swift answers to
| international problems.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2010/06/30/acta-a-sign-of-weakness-in-multilateral-system-wipo-head-says/
India vows to sabotage ACTA
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| Fed up with the controversial Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), India
| hopes to whip up an anti-ACTA chutney so
| spicy that negotiators have no choice but to
| purge every trace of the loathed agreement
| from their systems.
|
| Though countries like Morocco are involved,
| rich countries have driven the ACTA process.
| The World Trade Organizationâignored. The
| World Intellectual Property Organizationâ
| bypassed. Instead of using the very fora that
| they played such a role in establishing,
| countries like the US, EU, Canada, Japan, and
| Australia formed a coalition of the willing.
| ACTA has been negotiated in secret, though
| the recently released negotiating draft text
| envisions a permanent secretariat that will
| receive new members.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/india-vows-to-sabotage-acta.ars
India Seeking Allies To Oppose ACTA
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| With the next round of Anti-Counterfeiting
| Trade Agreement negotiations scheduled for
| later this month in Lucerne, Switzerland
| (governments have been painfully slow this
| round in confirming dates, location, and
| agenda), the global politics behind the
| agreement escalated over the weekend with
| Indian officials acknowledging that they plan
| to establish a coalition of government
| opposed to the agreement. Reports indicate
| that a major concern involves the possible
| seizure of goods in transit, which raises
| access to medicines fears with the potential
| detention of generic pharmaceuticals.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5076/125/
India Gearing Up To Fight ACTA; Seeking Other, Like-Minded, Countries
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| But, of course, according to various folks at
| the USTR and the Copyright Office, now that
| ACTA's been released, it's proven that all
| the "fears" from online sources were
| misguided. Right?
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100601/0354539639.shtml
EU Legal Review Says ACTA Negotiators Broke The Law In Not Revealing Text To EU Parliament
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| While ACTA has now been released, the review
| still happened. Hephaestus points us to the
| news that the analysis found that negotiators
| were not allowed to keep the document secret
| (pdf) from Parliament, and that if it had
| continued to the Parliament could have taken
| legal action. The key points:
|
| * Confidentiality cannot be used as a
| justification for not complying with the
| obligation to keep Parliament fully
| informed. Where a degree of
| confidentiality is justified to ensure
| the proper conduct of negotiations, the
| Council and Commission may request that
| agreed measure on the confidentiality of
| the documents be applied.
| * The obligation to inform Parliament
| cannot be modified or limited by any
| agreement among the institutions or by an
| arrangement with third parties which does
| not involve Parliament. Where documents
| originate from a third party, the Union
| negotiator may be justified in agreeing
| not to disclose such information without
| the consent of the third party concerned.
| In such circumstances, Parliament should
| nonetheless be provided with sufficient
| information.
| * In the case of a persistent refusal to
| provide it with sufficient information,
| Parliament could initiate proceedings for
| illegal failure to act.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100601/1014129647.shtml
US Copyright Official Discounts ACTA Concerns
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| U.S. copyright official Steven Tepp said
| Tuesday he doesn't understand many of the
| current objections to the proposed Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a 37-
| nation effort to enforce copyright and
| counterfeit laws across international
| borders.
|
| Tepp, senior counsel for policy and
| international affairs at the U.S. Copyright
| Office, dismissed objections to ACTA voiced
| by representatives of the Consumer
| Electronics Association (CEA) and Knowledge
| Ecology International (KEI), an
| intellectual-property research and advocacy
| group, during a debate on the trade
| agreement at the Future of Music Coalition's
| Washington, D.C., policy forum.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/197121/us_copyright_official_discounts_acta_concerns.html
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