Mounting opposition to the agreement from the developing world, particularly powerhouse economies such as India, China, and Brazil, is attracting considerable attention. The public opposition from...
Last week, I had the honour of delivering the opening keynote address at a conference on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement held in Washington. The event brought together over 90 academics, p...
The agenda for the ninth round of ACTA talks scheduled for Lucerne, Switzerland from June 28 - July 1st. All the major issues - civil enforcement, criminal provisions, Internet issues, and border...
The Government of India came out forcefully against ACTA this week in an intervention at the World Trade Organization. The India position, which may well reflect the views of other ACTA-excluded c...
Three major U.S. technology industry groups have jointly spoken out against ACTA. The Consumer Electronics Association, TechAmerica and the Computer & Communications Industry Association plan to o...
With the Canada - European Union summit underway this week, the European Parliament has just passed a resolution that calls on Canada to support even greater ACTA transparency and to shift the neg...
As the ACTA negotiating countries promised, a draft consolidated text was released earlier today. Unlike the earlier leaked version which provided specific attribution to country positions, this o...
The New Zealand round of ACTA negotiations concluded earlier today with participants promising to release the draft text next week. This obviously represents a major new development that reflects ...
The U.S. Trade Representative issued a release just prior to the launch of the New Zealand round of ACTA negotiations that has left no doubt that the U.S. is the biggest barrier to official releas...
http://www.laquadrature.net/files/201001_acta.pdf
Ten civil liberties and library groups have written to the USTR to express concern over ACTA provisions. http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/03/groups-voice-concern-with-acta.php
The European Parliament today overwhelming approved a resolution on ACTA calling for transparency and raising concerns about substantive elements in the treaty such as the prospect of three strikes...
The Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Van der Hoeven has issued a release calling for ACTA transparency. Van der Hoeven adds that a three-strikes system is unacceptable. http://www.nieuwsbank.n...
In an important new leak from the Netherlands, a Dutch memorandum reporting back on the Mexico ACTA negotiation round names names, pointing specifically to which countries support releasing the tex...
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