ACTA talks resume today
p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement talks resume today as Round Ten opens in Washington, DC. The full agenda indicates that all the issues will be addressed along with discussions of many smaller matters that have been left until the end.
Following the last round in Lucerne, Switzerland (which only concluded 47 days ago), I had several posts on the leaked draft that tried to identify the primary areas of disagreement, the Canadian positions, the U.S. decision to cave on anti-circumvention, the importance of geographical indications in the talks, and speculation on the prospect of the EU walking away from ACTA.
The decision to move to a full round – rather than more informal (and less transparent) inter-round talks or a bi-lateral meeting between the U.S. and EU – seems to have come fairly late in the process. With the U.S. on its home turf and having pushed for an accelerated schedule (there will be another round in Japan early in the fall), the next week could decide the fate of ACTA.
If neither side is willing to budge on the core disagreement over scope of the treaty, the prospect of a slimmed down group of countries as part of ACTA becomes greater.
If the move to a full round is a sign that movement is likely, there is every reason to believe that ACTA will be concluded this year.
Michael Geist – Michael Geist’s Blog
[Geist is the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. He can be reached by email at mgeist @ uottawa dot ca]
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August, 2010
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August 16th, 2010 at 11:50 am
This Anti Consumer Trade Carve-up treaty is designed to slip in so many unpalatable aspects that are squarely aimed at both free trade and free speech I,m surprised anyone is still making the pretence is ever had anything to do with counterfeiting, its all about monopoly.
August 16th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
This another sign that backs up Stephen Hawking’s speech that we need to populate space beyond this planet.
August 16th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
The Anti Consumer Trade Agreement will be ignored by the public just like the DMCA in the US which is by the way unconstitutional.
The corporations of parasites can continue to masturbate with treaties and agreements that is and will remain irrelevant.