Intellectual Property Law

Secret Counterfeiting Treaty Public Must be Made Public, Global Organizations Say
More than 100 public interest organizations from around the world today called on officials from the countries negotiating Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to publish immediately the draft text of the agreement...

Secret Anticounterfeiting Treaty
ArsTechnica: "100 Groups Demand To See Secret Anticounterfeiting Treaty": The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is on a fast-track process as rich nations hope to wrap it up by the end of the year...

Public Interest Groups Sue US Trade Representative Over Secret Enforcement Treaty
By Kaitlin Mara Perhaps no topic over the past year has been cause for more uneasy speculation within the intellectual property community than the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), primarily because the negotiating process for this treaty has been behind tightly closed doors...

Over 100 International Public Interest Organizations Demand ACTA Be Made Public
Over 100 public interest organizations have demanded that ACTA, the notoriously secret treaty being negotiated by numerous nations around the world, to finally be made public. The EFF points to a very interesting news release which announces that several organizations from around the world are demanding that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement be made public...

Groups Call for ACTA Transparency
More than 100 groups have issued a public letter calling on the U.S., Canada, and other ACTA-negotiating countries to immediately publish the draft text of the agreement.  I agreed to serve as the Canadian contact on the release...

Essential Action Comments to USTR on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
The comments argue that background information on the treaty conflate the concepts of counterfeiting, "piracy" and infringement. "An agreement based on, or reflecting, such a conflation of distinct concepts is likely to be overly broad, proscribing behavior that cannot correctly be identified as counterfeiting and that is not necessarily detrimental to the public interest...

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