There is a video going around on the Intarwebz. I am not going to link directly to it but you can find it in the blog I link to in this post. It’s a report from Russia Today about ACTA. It has a clip of Richard Stallman sounding off, and a few others, and intimates [...]
ACTA stands for “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” and after a year of negotiations (following a year of “pre-negotiations”), that’s all we really know for certain. Which is just a bit insane for countries that are supposed to be representative democracies. Trade agreements are often negotiated under cover of secrecy, so that industry lobbyists can’t focus on [...]
Michael Geist reports that : the next round of ACTA negotiations, which had been scheduled for next month in Morocco, has been delayed at the request of U.S. officials. While this does not signal a change in perspective on ACTA, the U.S. did want to provide incoming USTR officials time to review ACTA before continuing [...]
There’s a wee snippet in the Briefings to Incoming Ministers regarding ACTA. Yes, I do read these things. Not for fun, you understand, but they’re always a good way to get an overview of what government agencies are working on and how they are constructed, especially when there’s a change of Government. The Beehive site [...]
We return you to your regular programme, after a summer hiatus that I wasn’t intending, actually. And what better way to get into 2009 than with some juicy leaked stuff! James Love, of Knowledge Ecology International, has just blogged some details from apparently leaked documents re ACTA http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/02/03/details-emerge-of-secret-acta/ It seems he has the outline and [...]