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Wikileaks Posts ACTA Documents Revealing Enforcement Cooperation and Practices Info

Wikileaks has posted additional original ACTA documents, including draft language for several sections of the treaty.  The leaked documents are consistent with earlier reports on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Chapter.  The leak package also includes the Canadian non-paper on institutional arrangements for ACTA (Canada has since supplied draft treaty language that has not been leaked).

The one document this is completely new is the release of the non-paper on International Enforcement Cooperation and Enforcement Practices, which would form Chapters 3 and 4 of ACTA.  The basis for discussion for the International Enforcement Cooperation (Chapter 3) are:

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April 12, 2009 7 comments News

The ACTA Document and Obama Transparency

There are many reports about the release this week of an ACTA summary document that was first made available on the USTR website.  These articles suggest that this reflects new support for transparency from the Obama administration.  While it may be true that the administration supports greater transparency, making that […]

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April 9, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

DFAIT Posts ACTA Presentation

The Department of Foreign Affairs has now posted its presentation from earlier this week on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.  I posted commentary on the meeting in five brief postings (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

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April 8, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Canada’s ACTA Briefing, Part Five: The Fight Over a De Minimis Exception

One of the most interesting points of discussion/disagreement during the ACTA briefing arose from the possibility of including a de minimus exception within the Border Measures chapter. The exception is presumably designed to ensure that tougher border measures does not result in iPod searching border guards.  Canadian officials indicated that […]

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April 6, 2009 2 comments News

Canada’s ACTA Briefing, Part Four: Timeline

Canadian officials were asked whether there was a timeline for completion.  Officials responded that they could not confirm that the treaty would be completed by the end of 2009, noting that negotiations were delayed to start the year by a new incoming administration in the United States.  The next round […]

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April 6, 2009 1 comment News