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ACTA stumbles in Germany | Intellectual Property | ZDNet UK
The country's Auswärtiges Amt, or foreign office, has withdrawn instructions to sign ACTA , an international agreement aimed at harmonising copyright enforcement around the world. A German government source told ZDNet UK on Friday the government will postpone its decision on whether it should sign or not until after the European Parliament has voted on the treaty in June. If any EU member state does not both sign and ratify ACTA, the agreement cannot enter into force anywhere in the union, the European Commission has told ZDNet UK . The European Parliament also has to ratify the document for it to apply in the EU. Defenders of ACTA, including EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht and US president Barack Obama, have said the pact is needed to make sure the relatively high standards of copyright enforcement in the EU and US are upheld throughout the rest of the world.
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In a Council of Ministers meeting held last week ministers voted to allow the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to be signed on behalf of EU member countries. The EU had helped finalise the terms of ACTA last year. "The Council adopted a decision authorising the signing of an anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) with Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States," a Council of Ministers statement said. "ACTA is aimed at establishing an international framework to improve the enforcement of intellectual property right laws and create improved international standards for actions against large-scale infringements of intellectual property. Negotiations were concluded in November 2010," it said. In October the US, Japan, Australia, Canada, Republic of Korea, Morocco, New Zealand and Singapore "committed" to ACTA at a signing ceremony in Japan.
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Intellectual Property Watch » Blog Archive » Rights-Holders’ Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Pact Could Have Broad Reach
The countries that own most of the world’s intellectual property rights have all but completed an agreement among themselves that raises the level of protection of those rights while appearing to reduce obligations placed on rights holders. Now they’ll need to find ways to apply it to the countries of the world seen as responsible for much of the infringing material. The latest draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is available here .
Countries negotiating a semi-secret trade agreement against piracy and counterfeiting this week in Tokyo are still aiming to reach agreement by the end of this year, a negotiator told Intellectual Property Watch today. The negotiator also did not reject outright the notion that patents might still be included in the draft treaty text, instead saying it is still a matter for discussion. Negotiators for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) are meeting from 23 September to 1 October in Tokyo for what some have said could be the final round of the negotiation. Civil society groups have stepped up expressions of concern in the lead-up to this meeting, not only over issues with the text itself but also over issues of non-transparency in the negotiating process ( IPW , Bilateral/Regional Negotiations, 24 September 2010 ).
Intellectual Property Watch » Blog Archive » ACTA Negotiators Still Aiming At Agreement By Year’s End
ACTA suspendu à un camembert ? | La Quadrature du Net
Communiqué commun Act Up-Paris, April et La Quadrature du Net Paris, le 13 septembre 2010 – Les représentants d'Act Up-Paris, April et La Quadrature du Net ont rencontré vendredi 10 septembre au matin un responsable français des négociations de l'ACTA. Il en ressort de graves inquiétudes sur un contournement durable du processus démocratique instauré par cet accord « anti-contrefaçon ». Qu'il s'agisse de l'accès aux médicaments des pays les plus pauvres, de la libre communication sur Internet et de la protection du logiciel libre, les modifications récentes ne changent rien à la dangerosité de l'ACTA. Ironiquement, l'espoir de voir rejeter cet accord illégitime est désormais suspendu à la capacité de l'Europe à défendre son camembert, son parmesan et son champagne...
European Parliament Asks EU ACTA Negotiators to Protect Citizens' Fundamental Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation
In a victory for democracy and transparency, the European Parliament adopted Written Declaration 12/2010 (WD 12) on the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement earlier this week. WD 12 calls on EU negotiators to ensure that ACTA does not weaken citizens' fundamental rights of freedom of expression, privacy, and judicial due process, and will not require Internet intermediaries to act as copyright police at the behest of the entertainment industry. WD 12 also calls on EU negotiators to make the ACTA negotiation texts public, and to ensure that ACTA's proposed border measures do not interfere with access to affordable medicines. WD 12 became the official position of the European Parliament on ACTA when it was signed by 377 Members of the European Parliament prior to today's deadline — more than the required majority of MEPs (369).
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The Pirate Party movement was founded in Sweden in 2006, focussing on digital rights and intellectual property reform. The controversial raiding of a facility hosting The Pirate Bay put them in the spotlight, leading to a significant victory in the 2009 European elections leaving them with 2 MEPs. This caught the imagination of many worldwide, but also in the UK. A group including our first leader put the party together in Britain, working online.
August 25 Washington DC ACTA Text | Knowledge Ecology International
The negotiating text emerging from 10th round ACTA negotiations in Washington DC (August 16-20, 2010) was not shared with the public because the United States successfully opposed its release. The US was the only negotiating party to have taken this position on transparency. We have obtained a copy of the August 25 consolidated text which reflects changes made during the DC round.T-Mobile expressed surprise that the ICO had gone public with the investigation before bringing the case to court. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Personal details of thousands of mobile phone customers have been stolen and sold to rival firms in the biggest data breach of its kind, the government's privacy watchdog said today. An employee of phone operator T-Mobile sold the customer records, including details of when contracts expired.
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James Love: White House Blocks Disclosure of Secret Intellectual Property Trade Text
The Obama Administration has again blocked the public release of the text of an important intellectual property enforcement agreement. The White House has made the completion of the agreement a high priority, which it will describe as something to protect U.S. jobs -- and hopes to complete the global pack in time to influence the November 2010 Congressional elections. The "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement," known as ACTA, has been shrouded in controversy since its inception in the Bush Administration, because of the secrecy surrounding the negotiations, and the suspected anti-consumer, anti-civil rights, and anti-innovation measures that were thought to be included.
US told EU to hide ACTA from public | EurActiv
Background: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which began in Geneva two years ago, is a multilateral trade agreement to establish international standards on intellectual property rights. According to former trade negotiators, countries attempted to clinch an agreement under the banner of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), but as members could not agree, like-minded nations formed ACTA. on 10 March, casting a vote against an agreement between the EU, the US and other major powers on combating online piracy and threatening to take legal action at the European Court of Justice. An overwhelming majority of MEPs (663 in favour and 13 against) passed in March a resolution criticising the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) , arguing that it flouts agreed EU laws on piracy online.Reuters/ Negotiators from the , the European Union and nine other countries have said they planned to finish work in September on a proposed pact to crack down on trade in counterfeit and pirated goods. The countries also pledged to publicly release the final text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which has raised concerns among Internet and digital rights advocates, “before deciding to sign it”. movie, music, software and other copyright-based industries calculate that they lose more than $16bn in sales each year from pirated versions of their products sold around the world. Many of these counterfeit and pirated goods are made in .
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from the international-obligations dept One of the important aspect of the leaked copy of the ACTA draft a little while back was that it also included what each of the different parties was pushing for in terms of language choices. This part of the draft was conveniently missing from the "official" draft that was released recently. But, if you looked through the different changes being pushed for by different countries, you quickly realized that definitions mean everything .
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[[ACTA/ 20100701_leak ]] ==Section 3: Criminal Enforcement Negotiator's Note: Definitions of "counterfeit trademark goods" and "pirated copyright goods" provided for in footnotes 12 and 13 of Section 2 (Border Measures) should be used as context for this Section. ==
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Round ten of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations in Washington concluded on Friday with countries confirming progress on all fronts and hopes to reach agreement on all remaining substantive issues at the next round in negotiations in Japan in late September. While the joint statement is not yet online, Reuters reports that the U.S. believes the remaining issues - including the U.S. - E.U. divide over geographical indications - could be resolved at the next meeting. The statement repeats earlier assurances about the impact on fundamental rights, cross-border transit of generic medicines, and iPod searching border guards. It also appears that there was again no agreement on releasing the draft text, with the U.S. presumably the ongoing obstacle. Instead, countries pledge to release the final text before deciding to sign it. Yet releasing the text once negotiations are concluded is too late.
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