Negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement resume today in Lucerne, Switzerland with the ninth round of talks. I'll have several ACTA posts this week, but start with a talk I gave earlier this month at a conference on ACTA at the American University, Washington College of Law. The posted version […]
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