Earlier this week, I spoke at a hearing on ACTA at the European Parliament. Media coverage of the talk is available here. The slides are posted below with full audio and video to come shortly.
The Truth About ACTA
Tags: acta / alde hearing / anti-counterfeiting trade agreement / copyright / Counterfeit / counterfeiting / european parliament
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Great event
Great presentation.
I found some incomplete video footoage of the event on Youtube.
http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/partial-video-recordings-of-the-alde-hearing-on-acta/
I also added a few comments on the Commission negotiators role in this.
http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/luc-devigne-and-dg-trades-actarchy/
@ARt, agreed. However, one thing that may have been useful is to compare ACTA against similar treaties (slide 5). I say similar because the examples given are all of UN based treaties, where UN rules apply. Since ACTA is not negotiated under UN aspices, a comparison to other multiparty, non-UN, treaties would be useful as well.