Archive for June, 2009

ACTA Update: New Meetings, New Partners, New Issues

The Canadian government held an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement consultation meeting today focused on pharmaceutical and access to medicines issues.  The meeting was smaller than the earlier consultation in April, but featured some important new information about the ACTA process including a fuller description of planned negotiating meetings, details on the upcoming Morocco meeting, and confirmation on an inquiry from Brazil about joining the negotiations.

1.   Negotiation schedule

The ACTA partners met on June 11th to discuss ACTA related issues and committed at the meeting to continue with the negotiations.  The next meeting is set for Morocco in July with later meetings currently planned for October (Korea) and December (Mexico).  There are additional tentative plans for meetings in February and April 2010.

2.   The Morocco meeting

Officials advised that the Morocco meeting will be a two-day meeting that focuses on ACTA chapters involving international co-operation, enforcement, and institutional issues.  The meeting will also address some "housekeeping" issues including ongoing transparency concerns.  The Internet-related provisions will not be a focus and the Internet-related issues has not progressed beyond the U.S. non-paper that surveyed other ACTA participants on the state of their digital copyright laws (in other words, there is still no draft text).

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June 30, 2009 1 comment News

Garneau Responds: Clarifying the Liberal Copyright Recommendation

Late this afternoon, Marc Garneau, the Liberal Industry critic, contacted me to respond to my post today on the Liberal dissenting recommendation to introduce copyright legislation and ratify the WIPO Internet treaties in the Industry Committee report on the Canadian economy.  The following notes on the call are posted with […]

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June 29, 2009 Comments are Disabled Stop CDMCA

Garneau Responds: Clarifying the Liberal Copyright Recommendation

Late this afternoon, Marc Garneau, the Liberal Industry critic, contacted me to respond to my post today on the Liberal dissenting recommendation to introduce copyright legislation and ratify the WIPO Internet treaties in the Industry Committee report on the Canadian economy.  The following notes on the call are posted with […]

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June 29, 2009 10 comments News

Liberal Party Recommends Ratification of WIPO Internet Treaties

A week after the Liberal Party came out in favour of net neutrality, David Akin notes that Liberal members of the Standing Committee on Industry recently issued a dissenting recommendation focused on copyright reform.  The recommendation was part of a report on the Canadian economy.  While the committee as a […]

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June 29, 2009 7 comments News

Liberal Party Recommends Ratification of WIPO Internet Treaties

A week after the Liberal Party came out in favour of net neutrality, David Akin notes that Liberal members of the Standing Committee on Industry recently issued a dissenting recommendation focused on copyright reform.  The recommendation was part of a report on the Canadian economy.  While the committee as a […]

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June 29, 2009 Comments are Disabled Stop CDMCA