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What is ACTA?
Behind closed doors the EU, US and Japan negotiate an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). No drafts are published. ACTA will contain a new international benchmark for legal frameworks on the enforcement of copyrights, trade mark rights, patents and other so called intellectual property rights. According to the European Commission's website, a "path breaking" agreement is foreseen. For this reason the Commission likes to work outside the normal formal structures. Public interest organisations are concerned ACTA may limit access to medicines, limit access to the internet, give patent trolls free reign and harm the most innovative sectors of the economy.
ACTA workgroup description
The ACTA workgroup of the FFII is run by Ante Wessels. For the time being, the ACTA WG activities overlap with the IPRED2 workgroup (IP Enforcement), but ACTA also affects other domains such as network regulation.
The goal of the workgroup is to raise awareness about ACTA, ensure public scrutiny and broad democratic debate, provide analysis and to monitor the political decision process.
You can contact the workgroup at ipred2@ffii.org.
FFII analysis
FFII ACTA analysis Both the European Parliament and the EU Member States have vetoes on aspects of the ACTA
FFII observations on Council position
Presentation Ante Wessels at HAR 2009 text - slides - video
Other Trade Agreements, same problems
links
Leaked documents, meetings ...
Knowledge Ecology International
Leaked discussion paper.... Google txt
Keionline: Details of the ACTA emerge
Canada's ACTA Briefing, Part Two: The Treaty Provisions
Putting Together the ACTA Puzzle: Privacy, P2P Major Targets
Secretive ACTA Negotiations under Scrutiny
Intellectual property enforcement initiatives threaten consumer rights and public health
European Union
EU: Summary of key elements under discussion in the on-going ACTA negotiations
Effects on developing countries
European Parliament resolution 18 December 2008 - - - (IP Watch)
European Parliament resolution 11 March 2009 - - - (Straight.com)
MEP Jens Holm Parliamentary question and answer
Agreement to keep the ACTA secret
Search: Council: 133 (title), acta (text)
Search: Council: anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (in title)
Search: Council: anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (in text)
U.S.
U.S. Trade Representative brief - - - p2pnet
Seizures of generic medicine
General article on IP-Watch: Alarm Escalates Over Delayed Generic Drug Shipments As Action Sought
Health Action International (HAI) website frontpage contains some statements by HAI on the subject
Joint HAI Europe/Oxfam Novib Open Letter to Dutch Ministries on generic medicines seizure
Other governments
Access to documents U.S.
FOIA: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
http://www.eff.org/fn/directory/6661/328
http://www.eff.org/fn/directory/6661/329
Declaration of Stanford McCoy, Assistant United States Trade Representative for Intellectual Property and Innovation Shows corporate lobbyists have access
U.S. DoJ Motion for Summary Judgment Shows corporate lobbyists have access
NGO Letter to USTR on transparency
