ACTA
From We Re-Build
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a proposed plurilateral trade agreement which is claimed by its proponents to be in response "to the increase in global trade of counterfeit goods and pirated copyright protected works." The scope of ACTA is broad, including counterfeit physical goods, as well as "internet distribution and information technology".
In October 2007 the United States, the European Community, Switzerland and Japan announced that they would negotiate ACTA. Furthermore the following countries have joined the negotiations: Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Canada and the European Union. The ACTA negotiations have been conducted in secrecy until on 22 May 2008 when a discussion paper about the proposed agreement was uploaded to Wikileaks, and newspaper reports about the secret negotiations quickly followed.
Negotiations were originally anticipated to conclude by the end of 2008, however in November 2008 the European Commission stated that negotiations were likely to continue in 2009. The next (sixth) of negotiations was hosted by the Republic of Korea in Seoul on November 4 to 6, 2009. At the fifth round of negotiations, in Morocco in July 2009, participants indicated their intention was to conclude the agreement "as soon as possible in 2010". According to New Zealand ACTA would "establish a new international legal framework" and "the goal of ACTA is to set a new, higher benchmark for intellectual property rights enforcement that countries can join on a voluntary basis."
Critics argue ACTA is part of a broader strategy of venue shopping and policy laundering employed by the trade representatives of the US, EC, Japan, and other supporters of rigid intellectual property enforcement. This strategy entails negotiating for terms in international treaties that might prove too politically unpopular to pass in national assemblies. Similar terms and provisions currently appear in the World Customs Organization draft SECURE treaty, and critics have argued that the anticircumvention provisions of Title I of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act were similarly passed after policy laundering via treaties negotiated through the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Participants in The 6th Round of negotiations on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Seoul, November 4-6, 2009 reaffirmed their commitment to continue their work with the aim of concluding the agreement as soon as possible in 2010. Participants in the meeting also agreed that the next meeting - The 7th Round of negotiations - would be hosted by Mexico in January 2010. This next meeting will possibly be held at the end of January 2010 according to Mexican IMPI. According to this article, the meeting is to take place "tentatively during the week of January 25, 2010"
The 8th Round of negotiations will be held in Wellington, "New Zealand in the week of April 12, 2010".
Public hearings
March 22, 2010
- part 1 (youtube)
- part 2 (youtube)
- part 3 (youtube)
- part 4 (youtube)
- part 5 (youtube)
- part 6 (youtube)
- part 7 (youtube)
- part 8 (guess if this is a movie at youtube ;)
- part 9 (youtube)
- part 10 (youtube)
ACTA & IPRED2
The following text comes from an Intellectual Property Watch article from december 2009:
"While the Swedish EU presidency had favoured greater transparency with regard to the ACTA, discussions on this are still ongoing, according to Magnus Fridh, special adviser at the Division for Intellectual Property and Transport Law Ministry of Justice in Sweden. Fridh in reply to a question from Intellectual Property Watch rejected the notion that there was a clear timetable. But he confirmed that a representative from the Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Civil Rights announced that a new draft for IPRED 2 would be tabled in May or June.
He declared that “nothing prevents the EU and/or its member states from signing ACTA before such a directive is in place.” An expert at the Commission answering a request from Intellectual Property Watch said that ACTA and the criminal sanctions of a EU IPRED 2 have a connection, but that “a particular arrangement was established that should allow the EU to successfully achieve its objectives for ACTA even without IPRED 2.”"
Provisions
Although the treaty's title suggests that the agreement only covers counterfeit physical goods (such as medicines), the proposed treaty has a broader scope, including "piracy over the Internet". In an ACTA fact sheet published in November 2008 the European Commission stated that "There is, at this stage, no agreed text." A leaked document entitled Discussion Paper on a Possible Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement suggests that the following provisions will be included in ACTA: new legal regimes to "encourage ISPs to cooperate with right holders in the removal of infringing materials", criminal measures and increased border search powers.
In reaction to the leaks the European Commission in November 2008 stated that:
"The negotiations are still ongoing. This means that there is no agreement yet, and that, at the time of writing this fact sheet, there is not even a draft text on which negotiating parties converge. A number of "texts", wrongly presented as draft ACTA agreements have been circulated on the web. At a preliminary stage of the discussions about the idea of a future ACTA, some of the negotiating parties have submitted concept papers, to present their initial views of the project to other partners. Some of these concept papers have been circulated on the net or commented in the press and presented as "draft ACTA texts or negotiating guidelines", which they are not."
Details published in February 2009 indicate that ACTA has six main chapters. Most of discussion to date is focused on the "Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights" chapter, which has four sub chapters:
- Initial Provisions and Definitions;
- Enforcement of IPR;
- Civil Enforcement
- Border Measures
- Criminal Enforcement
- Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement in the Digital Environment
- International Cooperation;
- Enforcement Practices;
- Institutional Arrangements;
- Final Provisions.
ISP cooperation
The leaked document includes a provision to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to provide information about suspected copyright infringers without a warrant, making it easier for the record industry to sue music file sharers and for officials to shut down non-commercial BitTorrent websites such as The Pirate Bay.
FFII - Analysis Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
Executive Summary
Behind closed doors, the EU, US, Japan and other countries are negotiating ACTA. No drafts are published. The negotiating parties use a too broad definition of piracy. In an obfuscated way, the definition comes down to "willful large scale infringements". As a result, bona fide entrepreneurs and civilians are criminalized, and excessive civil and administrative measures can be invoked against them. The following examples may be infringements. If they are, they would fall within the definition:
- a newspaper, whistle blower or weblogger revealing a document,
- ambiguous cases of trademark confusion,
- parallel importation (buying and selling of genuine products),
- making a product or medicine (in many sectors, there are so many patents, with unclear scope and validity, it is impossible to tell whether one violates a patent),
- the production of spare parts (may violate an unexamined design right, with unclear scope and validity),
- an office worker emailing a copy of a market research report to his colleague at work,
- emailing a list of people (may violate an unexamined database right, with unclear scope and validity),
- a library, in order to preserve digital sound recordings for posterity, unlawfully breaking the technical protection measure wrapping the digital recording each time it lawfully receives a sound recording either by purchase or by legal deposit,
- and possibly: youngsters enthusiastically sharing their favorite music with friends.
In all these cases, the rights holder can go to a civil court for damages. But harsh anti-piracy measures, meant to fight criminal organizations, are excessive. A too broad definition may have far reaching consequences on legal certainty, innovation, competitiveness, freedom of speech, privacy and access to medicines, software and the Internet. ACTA could become a dangerous tool for abusive strategies.
It is essential the public and parliaments can scrutinize ACTA. It is unclear whether they will be able to do that. It is unclear whether the final draft will be published prior to Political Agreement in the EU Council. ACTA may pass silently during Parliamentary recess.
In the EU decisions are normally taken as openly as possible and as closely as possible to the citizen. Preparatory legal texts are published. If full disclosure is not possible, parts are published. Translations are made prior to adoption in the Council. With ACTA, no drafts or translations are published. In a Resolution, the European Parliament called for disclosure of ACTA preparatory drafts, including progress reports, and of the Commission's negotiating mandate. The Council did not release documents.
In the case of trade agreements, both the EU Member States and the European Parliament have vetoes on aspects of the trade agreement. The following vetoes apply to ACTA:
- in so far as ACTA will relate to trade in cultural, audiovisual and educational services, the Member States have a veto,
- in so far as ACTA will relate to non commercial acts, the Member States have a veto,
- the Member States have a veto on criminal measures in ACTA,
- the European Parliament has vetoes if ACTA entails amending an act adopted under the procedure referred to in Article 251 or if a specific institutional framework is established by instituting cooperation procedures,
- furthermore, the Community is not competent to take disproportional measures.
ACTA's secrecy makes it impossible to assess whether the vetoes apply and should be used. In order to safeguard transparency and parliamentary legislative power, we call upon the parliaments of Europe, both the national as the European Parliament, to set parliamentary scrutiny reservations. If ACTA's final draft indeed combines a too broad definition of piracy with harsh measures, we call upon the parliaments to exercise vetoes against ACTA.
See also FFII ACTA page
Non disclosure agreement
Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement
I, __________, intending to be legally bound, accept the obligations in this Agreement in return for obtaining access to classified information. As used in this Agreement, classified information means information that has been determined under Executive Order 12958 to require protection from disclosure in the interest of national security. Classified information includes information, such as trade agreement negotiating texts, that the United States Government (USG) has provided to or received from another government or an international organization in an expectation that it would be held in confidence.
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Actors and lobbies
Confirmed insiders
Confirmed insiders (also note the few internet friendly insiders) having signed non disclosure agreements and seen the U.S. proposed Internet text for ACTA:
USTR says these people signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) to see the U.S. proposed Internet text for ACTA:
- Emery Simon, Business Software Alliance (BSA)
- Jesse Feder, Business Software Alliance (BSA)
- Bill Patry, Google
- Daphne Keller, Google
- Johanna Shelton, Google
- Lisa Pearlman, Wilmer Hale
- Robert Novick, Wilmer Hale
- Bob Kruger, Consultant to eBay
- Brian Bieron, eBay
- Hillary Brill, eBay
- Sarah Deutch, Verizon Communications
- David Weller, Wilmer Hale
- Steve Metalitz, International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA)
- Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
- Veronica O'Connell, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
- Jim Burger, Dow Lohnes, Counsel to Intel
- Jonathan Band, Jonathan Band PLLC
- Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge
- Rashmi Rangnath, Public Knowledge
- Sherwin Siy, Public Knowledge
- Maritza Castro, Dell
- Jeff Lawrence, Intel
- Mathew Schruers, CCIA
- David Sohn, Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)
- Michael Pericone, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
- Ryan Triplette, Intel
- Janet O'Callaghan, News Corporation
- Chris Israel, PCT Government Relations
- Alicia Smith, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Cameron Gilreath, Time Warner
- Seth Greensten, Constantine Cannon LLP, for Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
- Daniel Dougherty, eBay
- David Fares, News Corporation
Persons who received the ACTA Internet text who are members of ITAC 15 - the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights:
- Anissa S. Whitten, Vice President, International Affairs and Trade Policy, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
- Eric Smith, President, International Intellectual Property Alliance
- Neil I. Turkewitz, Executive Vice President, International, Recording Industry Association of America
- Sandra M. Aistars, Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property, Time Warner Inc.
- Stevan D. Mitchell, Vice President, Intellectual Property Policy, Entertainment Software Association
- Thomas J. Thomson, Executive Director, Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights
- Timothy P. Trainer, President, Global Intellectual Property Strategy Center, P.C., Zippo Manufacturing Company
Persons who received the ACTA Internet text who are members of ITAC 8 - the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Information and Communications Technologies, Services, and Electronic Commerce:
- Jacquelynn Ruff, Vice President, International Public Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Verizon Communications Inc.
- John P. Goyer, Vice President, International Trade,Negotiations and Investment, U.S. Coalition of Service Industries
- Mark F. Bohannon, General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Public Policy, Software and Information Industry Association
Lobby interests
The following table represents companies and industry associations lobbying for ACTA. The Confirmed column means if the entity (or a subsidiary company) is doing, directly, pro-ACTA lobbying. NDA is set to yes if members of the company have Non-Disclosure Agreements to see ACTA documents, ITAC is set if the entity is on the USTR's advisory boards with access and input in ACTA. The rest of columns are affiliations to various pro-ACTA organizations.
| Name | Abbr. | Type | Confirmed | NDA | ITAC | IIPA | AAP | BSA | ESA | IFTA | MPAA | NMPA | RIAA | PhRMA | CropLife | CIPR | CACP | IPO | USCIB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| International Intellectual Property Alliance | IIPA | Ind. assoc. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | ? | |||||||||
| Business Software Alliance | BSA | Ind. assoc. | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ||||||||
| Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights | CIPR | Ind. assoc. | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ||||||||||
| Consumer Electronics Association | CEA | Ind. assoc. | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ||||||||||
| CropLife International | Ind. assoc. | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ||||||||||
| Entertainment Software Association | ESA | Ind. assoc. | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ||||||||
| Intellectual Property Owners Association | IPO | Ind. assoc. | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ||||||||||
| Motion Picture Association of America | MPAA | Ind. assoc. | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ||||||||
| Recording Industry Association of America | RIAA | Ind. assoc. | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ||||||||
| Software and Information Industry Association | SIIA | Ind. assoc. | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ||||||||||
| U.S. Coalition of Service Industries | USCSI | Ind. assoc. | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||||||||||
| United States Council for International Business | USCIB | Ind. assoc. | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | |||||||||||
| General Electric (owns 80% NBC Universal) | Company | Yes | ? | ? | Indirectly | ? | ? | ? | Yes* | Yes* | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes* | Yes | Yes | |
| News Corporation | Company | Yes | Yes | ? | Indirectly | Yes* | Yes* | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ||||||||
| Pfizer | Company | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Sanofi-Aventis | Company | Yes | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | |
| Time Warner | Company | Yes | Yes | Yes | Indirectly | ? | ? | ? | Yes* | Yes* | ? | Yes* | No | No | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | |
| Sony | Company | Yes | Yes* | ? | Indirectly | ? | ? | Yes* | ? | Yes* | ? | Yes* | No | No | Maybe** | Yes | ? | Maybe** | |
| Verizon Communications | Company | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | |
| The Walt Disney Company | Company | Yes | ? | ? | Indirectly | Yes* | ? | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | ? | Yes* | No | No | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | |
| Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy | CACP | Ind. assoc.*** | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Global Intellectual Property Strategy Center, P.C | GIPSC | Company | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Association of American Publishers | AAP | Ind. assoc. | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ||||||||
| Independent Film and Television Alliance | IFTA | Ind. assoc. | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No 28112009 | ? | ? | ||||||||
| National Music Publishers Association | NMPA | Ind. assoc. | No | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | No 28112009 | ? | ? | ||||||||
| Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America | PhRMA | Ind. assoc. | No | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | |||||||||
| Monsanto Company | Company | No | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Viacom | Company | No | ? | ? | Indirectly | ? | ? | ? | Yes* | Yes* | ? | ? | No | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
- * Through subsidiary companies.
- ** Potentially through law firms Lovells and/or Baker&McKenzie
- *** Leaded by the U.S. Chamber
Lobby companies
This section is dedicated to lobby companies active in ACTA. These companies are contracted by large corporations to lobby for them.
The Gorlin Group
The Gorlin Group is Jacques Gorlin's lobby company. Gorlin has been lobbying for the pharmaceutical industry for 20 years. He was Director of the Intellectual Property Committee, a industry coallition which was the main lobbyst in TRIPS. He's Vice-Chairman of ITAC 15 and member of the Commission on Intellectual Property of the International Chamber of Commerce.
- Clients (companies): Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont, FMC Corporation, General Electric, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Lilly, Merck, Microsoft, Monsanto, Novartis, Pfizer, Pharmacia, Procter & Gamble, Rockwell International, Schering Plough, Texas Instruments, Time Warner, Westinghouse
- Clients (industry associations): American BioIndustry Alliance (ABIA), Business Roundtable, Intellectual Property Committee (IPC), International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA), INTERPAT, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of South Africa, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA), RDPAC (R&D-based Pharmaceutical Association in China)
Global Intellectual Property Strategy Center
The Global Intellectual Property Strategy Center is Timothy Trainer's lobby company. Trainer was attorney in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's (PTO) Office of Legislative and International Affairs. He assumed the position of President of the Washington, D.C.-based International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC) in September 1999. Trainer has represented the US in the WIPO and has provided IP technical support to the USTR and other US agencies. He founded the Global Intellectual Property Strategy Center, P.C. (GIPSC), in March 2005. He's member of the ITAC 15 (representing the Zippo Manufacturing Company).
Unconfirmed lobby interest
Others (unconfirmed)
- Vivendi (owns Universal Music Group (UMG))
- Warner Music Group (WMG)
- Broadcast Music, Inc (BMI)
- American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)
- American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
- American Society of Media Photographers, Inc. (ASMP)
- Commercial Photographers International
- Directors Guild of America (DGA)
- Evidence Photographers International Council
- International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)
- Picture Archive Council of America (PACA)
- Professional Photographers of America (PPA)
- Reed Elsevier Inc.
- Society of Sport & Event Photographers
- Stock Artists Alliance
- Student Photographic Society
- The Advertising Photographers of America
Copyright industry allies
Spain
- Ángeles González-Sinde (Minister of Culture): comes from the film industry, she's legislating everything the copyright lobbies tell her to. Most recently, ACTA-like laws including file-sharing sites shutdown without judicial orderer, by a commission appointed by her.
- Ignasi Guardans (Director of Instituto de la Cinematografía y las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), the highest responsible for policies related to the film industry. He and his family have interests in film producers. He's a former MEP and was one of the main Spanish advocates for the copyright-industry-ammendments on the Telecoms Package.
Campaigns
International
Twitter: stoppacta
Australia
Canada
Europe
Japan
Jordan
Mexico
Twitter: OpenActa
Morocco
New Zealand
Twitter:
Singapore
The Republic of Korea
The United Arab Emirates
United States of America
Knowledge Ecology International
Twitter:
- White House shares the ACTA Internet text with 42 Washington insiders, under non disclosure agreements
- NGO Letter to USTR on transparency
- Petition to President Obama, regarding transparency of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- Knowledge Ecology International - The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
- In their own words: why they oppose the treaty to facilitate access and sharing of works for people with reading disabilities
- Senators Sanders and Brown ask White House to make ACTA text public
- Senators Sanders and Brown's letter to the United States Trade Representative PDF
- Ambassador Kirk: People would be “walking away from the table” if the ACTA text is made public
- Seven Secret ACTA documents from 2008
- Dec 7, 2009 letter from Ambassador Kirk to Senator Sanders on ACTA transparency, says nothing new
- ACTA for beginners
La Quadrature Du Net
Twitter: La Quadrature du Net
- Web Dossier on ACTA
- ACTA - Draft of Internet Chapter
- Global Overview of ACTA
- FFII's Analysis of ACTA
- European Parliament Resolution on ACTA
- Dogmatic IPR enforcement fails to address the challenges of the Internet-based creative economy
- Dogmatic IPR enforcement fails to address the challenges of the Internet-based creative economy PDF
- ACTA, U.S Democracy and the Global Knowledge Economy
- European Parliament to adopt a report on IPR enforcement
- ACTA: A Global Threat to Freedoms (Open Letter)
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Twitter: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Stopping the ACTA Juggernaut
- Reining in ACTA: Update and Call to Action
- Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA
- The Distraction of Transparency: an ACTA News Roundup
- Senator Bayh Responds on ACTA
European Digital Rights
Twitter: European Digital Rights
- ENDitorial: Mobilizing to Stop ACTA
- ENDitorial: ACTA revealed, European ISPs might have a big problem
- Response of the Federal Government to the Parliamentary Question from Members Dr. Petra Sitte, Agnes Alpers and others and the DIE LINKE Parliamentary Party on the current state of the negotiations on the International Anti-Piracy Agreement (“Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” – ACTA)
- ENDitorial: What the conquistadores can teach us about ACTA
See also
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Presentation - New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development December 2009
- Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) Intellectual Property chapter, 22 Sep 2009
- Acta-discuss -- Public ACTA discussion list
- European Union's Comments to the U.S. Proposal - Special Requirements Related To The Enforcement Of Intellectual Property Rights In The Digital Environment 29 OCTOBER 2009 - leaked document
- The Impact of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on the Knowledge Economy: The Accountability of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for the Creation of IP Enforcement Norms Through Executive Trade Agreements
- The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) - Summary of Key Elements Under Discussion* Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- Analysis Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- European Commission on Internet Chapter, "advance warning" memorandum, Sep 30, 2009, reports following documents as the basis of the proposed text:
- U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 18 on intellectual property;
- U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement, Article 4.13;
- TRIPS, Article 41;
- DMCA, Section 512 — definiton of the Internet Service Provider;
- Article 11 of the WCT and Article 18 of the WPPT.
- EU Council deliberately obstructs access to ACTA documents
- MPAA letter re ACTA
- Issue Brief - The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: An updated analysis
- United States – Oman Free Trade Agreement
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
- Office of the United States Trade Representative
- International Chamber of Commerce
- Mexican Institute of Industrial Property
- Global Congress - Combating Counterfeiting & Piracy
- E-Commerce Directive
- mere conduit
- Safe harbor
- Susta-rapporten
- Cashman-rapporten
External links
English
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Wikipedia
- EFF and PK to Congress: U.S. Trade Advisory Committee Needs Technology Users' Input
- Testimony of Gigi B. Sohn President, Public Knowledge Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade - Hearing on Trade Advisory Committee System July 21, 2009
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- Japan - U.S. Joint Proposal - Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement PDF 7 July 2008
- New Zealand Launches ACTA Consultation
- MED Seeks further comment on ACTA
- Observations on the Council's opinion
- ACTA on Wikileaks 1
- ACTA on Wikileaks 2
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- IP-Justice: ACT Against ACTA
- IP Justice White Paper on the Proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
- The European Commission about ACTA
- The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) Fact sheet PDF
- The Problem with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- EFF: Sunlight for ACTA
- Group Letter to President Obama Expressing Concern Over Lack of Transparency and Openness Surrounding Negotiations of ACTA
- The Leaked ACTA Document
- se2009.eu: The 6th Round of Negotiations on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
- Still-murky copyright treaty could change web as we use it
- NZ should not sign international piracy agreement
- ISPs focus of piracy talks
- Secret ACTA treaty can't be shown to public, just 42 lawyers
- The ACTA Internet provisions: DMCA goes worldwide
- ACTA Internet Chapter Leak Signals Far-Reaching Copyright Policy
- What is Acta and what should I know about it?
- Enhanced Efforts at Transparency on ACTA Chamberpost propaganda
- The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - Summary of Key Elements Under Discussion - Australian Government: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- ACTA: Worldwide Net restrictions without public debate
- The ACTA Threat
- What laws and bananas have in common
- Chat with Michael Geist on secret copyright rules
- Knock it off: Global treaty against media piracy won't work in Asia
- Copyright overreach takes a world tour
- Accessibility and ACTA
- Interview with Jorge Amigo, Director of IMPI about #ACTA
- South Korean Copyright Groups Demand P2P Site Filters “Or Else”
- ACTA: walk away or get on board?
- ENDitorial: Mobilizing to Stop ACTA
- Stopping the ACTA Juggernaut
- Council Resolution on a comprehensive European anti-counterfeiting and anti piracy plan PDF
- Resolution on enforcement of copyright, trademarks, patents and other intellectual property rights PDF
- Why The Lack of ACTA Transparency Is Not Standard
- Fear Mongering and Misinformation Used to Slag ACTA
- MPAA's Glickman seeks Hill support for ACTA
- MPAA letter re ACTA
- Another Pro-ACTA Letter from MPAA, RIAA, et al.
- Shocker: Ars, Hollywood agree on need for ACTA openness
- Hollywood: Never Mind the Transparency, Here's the ACTA
- Alec Ross: U.S. telecom policy not admired abroad
- Word manipulation, hypocrisy, and the so-called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
- MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood
- IP: Singing from the same songbook
- Copyright treaty not the cause of S92A delay
- Entertainmnent Industry: Yes, Please Keep Negotiating Secret Copyright Treaty To Save Our Asses
- The usual suspects are threatening to dismantle our Internet
- File-sharing is coming to an end! ACTA Copyright Treaty Secrets video
- Afro-IP has not been hot on the heels of the developments surrounding the not-so-secret Anti-Counterfeiting and Trade Agreement
- MPAA Dismisses Demand for Copyright Treaty Transparency as “Distraction”
- Library Copyright Alliance ACTA submissions
- Library Copyright Alliance - Issue Brief - The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement PDF
- The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: An updated analysis
- Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities, 74 Fed. Reg. 52507 (Oct. 13, 2009) PDF
- Act against ACTA Secrecy
- Opinion: Countering the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- Senators blast Obama's secret trade talks as Fox head calls for '3 strikes'
- Don’t sign away our rights in secret
- Funny How Those In Favor Of ACTA Are Against Treaty Providing More Access To Content For Vision Impaired
- Senate Demands Transparency on Copyright Bill
- Swedish Minister To Demand ACTA Be Opened Up
- EU competence to conclude Free Trade Agreements under the Lisbon Treaty
- European ISPs Lash out at Secret ACTA Negotiations
- EU ACTA Analysis Leaks: Confirms Plans For Global DMCA, Encourage 3 Strikes Model
- European ISPs Warn Against A Trade Deal Threatening Iinternet Openness PDF
- Current ACTA drafts ban DRM interoperability laws
- Knock knock ACTA, it’s the Internet.
- Europe Worries U.S. Bowing to ‘Industry’ in ACTA Talks
- ACTA and the Drug Monopoly Enforcement Agenda: A windfall for big drug companies; higher medicine prices for all
- A Treaty for the Visually Impaired
- Secret ACTA negotiations would criminalize Canadian internet use
- New ACTA Leak Confirms Major Threat to Internet Freedom, Privacy
- Another ACTA leak reveals Europe's worries about Internet chapter
- Secret plans to criminalize generic medicines could hurt poor countries and people
- Canadian copyright law to trump ACTA, Clement says
- Anonymous - An Official Message (ACTA)
- European ISPs attack secret Acta copyright talks
- Historical Knowledge Mobilization and ACTA
- More ACTA Leaks; Still Looking Really Bad
- Net piracy: The people vs the entertainment industry
- EU negotiators show too many incompatibilities between ACTA and EU laws
- What’s the need for secrecy?
- Dunne: What are we signing up to, Mr Power? – 4 december 2009
- USTR Plans Another Year Of Elevating IP Protection With Trading Partners
- Report: U.S. Fears Public Scrutiny Would Scuttle IP Treaty Talks — Update
- Canadian Proposal For ACTA Secretariat
- Acta-discuss -- Public ACTA discussion list
- Transparency of FTAA negotiations, compared to ACTA
- EU's secretive anti-piracy talks cause concern
- ACTA: Government Talks Contemplate Internet-User Sanctions
- Canada To Host ACTA Meeting in 2010?
- Charlie Angus: The trouble with the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement talks
- Is EU Parroting the ACTA Lie?
- Coalition focuses on secret ACTA treaty
- The ACTA Timeline
- What’s going on with ACTA?
- New ACTA Coalition Launches in New Zealand
- ACTA WG
- Beyond ACTA: Proposed EU - Canada Trade Agreement Intellectual Property Chapter Leaks
- ACTA briefing reveals little, details kept secret
- Dan Glickman's Moral Panic
- EC104 - ETNO Expert Contribution on the on-going ACTA negotiations
- ETNO Expert Contribution on the on-going ACTA negotiations
- Lettre Ouverte de la Quadrature - ACTA, accord secret, menaces contre nos libertés
- Europe's telcos call to open up ACTA
- Canada Also Getting Pushed By EU On Ridiculous Copyright Policies
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Presentation - New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development December 2009
- Geist: EU demands in free trade talks would retool our copyright laws
- ACTA May Prompt Quick Restart To EU Harmonisation Of Criminal Enforcement Of IP
- EC official responds to ACTA critics
- ACTA as the (Fool's) "Gold Standard"
- ACTA explained by the European Commission
- My only prediction for 2010 and it ain’t pretty
Spanish
- Acuerdo Comercial Antifalsificación Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Intelectual
- La negociación secreta de un acuerdo mundial sobre el 'copyright' alarma a los internautas
- ¿Cómo afectará el ACTA tu actividad diaria?
- Entrevista con Jorge Amigo Castañeda
- Hay de Piratas a Piratas #ACTA
- OPENACTA.ORG
- Convocatoria para el Tercer Concurso de Dibujo Infantil
- SOS INTERNET: Levantemos acta sobre ACTA
- Acuerdo Comercial Anti-Falsificación (ACTA) Possible date of #ACTA meeting in México, week of the 25th of January 2010. (unconfirmed)
Swedish
- SVT Kulturnyheterna 10:e mars 2009 (Video)
- "Hemlig process leder till slutet internet"
- Avtal om reglerat internet diskuteras
- Actaförhandlingarna fortsatt hemliga
- IT-jurister varnar för Actaavtalet
- ACTA och Internet Governance Forum
- Actaavtalet: Sverige säger nej till förslag om illegal fildelning
- Hemliga ACTA - hot och skandal
- Lawrence Lessig: Obama och Biden oeniga om Actaavtalet
- Åsa Torstensson besöker Washington DC
- EU mörkar antipiratplan
- Torstensson ska diskutera ACTA-avtalet - utan att ha läst det
- Glada amatörer åker alltid dit
- Torstensson kräver öppenhet av USA om Acta
French
- La Suède souhaite que le contenu de l'ACTA soit rendu public
- ACTA : le traité secret impose riposte graduée et filtrage (MAJ)
- Si l'ACTA est rendu public maintenant, des participants "quitteront la table"
- ACTA: Menace globale pour les Libertés
- ACTA: Menace globale pour les Libertés: Lettre ouverte aux institutions européennes
- ACTA : l'Allemagne opposée au dispositif de riposte graduée
- ACTA : mobilisation contre la menace « pour les libertés
- La menace ACTA : pourquoi les bibliothèques doivent s’en préoccuper
- L'ACTA expliqué (et justifié) par la Commission européenne
German
- STOP ACTA - Bündnis und Petition
- ACTA - ein geheimes Abkommen bedroht die Grundrechte und die Freiheit des Internets
- Brüssel hat Bauchschmerzen bei Anti-Piraterie-Abkommen
- Aus für das TechCrunch-Surftablett
- Offener Brief zu ACTA: “Eine globale Bedrohung der Freiheit”
- Intransparente ACTA-Verhandlungen: Spricht die Justizministerin für die Bundesregierung?
Poland
- Wnioski o udostępnienie informacji publicznej na temat ACTA / Freedom of Information Request regarding ACTA — 24 Nov 2009, English version available.


