European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs To Discuss ACTA

The European Parliament’s Legal Service released its opinion on ACTA to the public today, and tomorrow the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs will discuss ACTA. The hearing will be streamed live.  In advance of the hearing, the Foundation for a Free Internet Infrastructure has written the Committee, arguing that ACTA 1) will “undermine access to generic medicines” and 2) contains “draconian” measures against media piracy include “damages [that] go beyond current EU law, which is based on actual loss suffered, including lost profits.”

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    Mike Palmedo is the admin for infojustice.org, and he manages interdisciplinary research on copyright exceptions at American University College of Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. He has Masters degrees Economics and in International Affairs, and is an economics PhD candidate.

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