This weekend I had the opportunity to deliver a keynote address at PublicACTA, a full-day event on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement held in Wellington, New Zealand just in advance of the next round of ACTA talks that run all this week in the city. The event was a model to […]
Canadian Heritage Memorandum, December 8, 2020, ATIP A-2020-00498
Bill C-10
Analysis of ACTA Under Australian Law
Kimberlee Weatherall has posted an exceptional detailed analysis of the proposed ACTA provisions on Australian law.
The Truth About ACTA
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 Trouble With ACTA
Public Knowledge's Sherwin Siy with a good piece on some of the problems with ACTA. As Sherwin rightly notes, "ACTA's status as a trade negotiation seems less based in the nature of its substance than in the convenience that this designation provides."
ACTA Podcast Explores Transparency and Substantive Concerns
Surprisingly Free has released a lengthy podcast in which I was interviewed about ACTA. The 40 minute podcast touches on a wide range of issues including transparency and substance of the agreement.
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