The Department of Foreign Affairs has sent requests to people who submitted comments on the first ACTA consultation to ask their permission to post their comments online. I previously posted the summary of those comments obtained under ATIP.
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BBC Column on ACTA
The BBC runs an updated version of one of my recent pieces on ACTA.
The European ACTA Consultation
IP Watch reports on this week's European public consultation on ACTA. European officials confirmed that ACTA is a response to the difficulty of promoting an IP enforcement agenda at the WTO and WIPO. The officials also highlighted some substantive divisions between the negotiating partners. Two in particular jump out – […]
Foreign Affairs Posts Summary of ACTA Consultation Meeting
The Department of Foreign Affairs has posted a good summary of the recent ACTA consultation meeting. The powerpoint from the meeting is here. My posts following the meeting are here, here, here, here, and here.
ACTA vs. APEC
Earlier this week, I posted an article on how countries negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement now acknowledge that a prime motivation behind their participation in the negotiations is the avoidance of WIPO. Interestingly, I recently obtained under the Access to Information Act the Canadian delegation instructions for the APEC Intellectual Property Experts Group (IPEG), meeting held in Taipei in June 2007. These instructions came just months before the formal announcement of ACTA negotiations and several years after the initial work on ACTA began at the G8. The instructions include:
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