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Updated: ACTA draft agreement: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

01 March 2010

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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) - draft (link, 14 MB, pdf): "Consolidated text: Reflects US-Japan and all Comments/Edits received. This documents contains foreign government information to be treated as U.S. CONFIDENTIAL MODIFIED HANDLING AUTHORISED * CONFIDENTIAL"

See also: Joint statement: MEPs deplore Council's continued secrecy on ACTA (pdf) and see: Parliament threatens court action on anti-piracy treaty (euactiv, link): "The European Parliament defied the EU executive today (10 March), casting a vote against an agreement between the EU, the US and other major powers on combating online piracy and threatening to take legal action at the European Court of Justice. A strong majority of MEPs (663 against and 13 in favour) today voted against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), arguing that it flouts agreed EU laws on counterfeiting and piracy online."

Background: Leaked ACTA draft reveals plans for internet clampdown - ISPs must snoop on subscribers or face being sued by content owners (Computerworld, link). Leaked Commission Note (pdf) and Leaked section of draft agreement (pdf): The EU (represented by the Commission) is taking part in negotiations on the drafting of an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). These negotiations were launched in 2007 amongst an initial group of interested parties and then continued with a broader group of participants; to date those include Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States,

See also: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) highly critical of proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA): Press Release (pdf) and Opinion: full-text (pdf).

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