The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure has just released the response it got from the EU INTA committee to the request to disclose the legal opinion the Committee recently received on ACTA. In what would be a shocking response,…
Statement and FAQ on ACTA and the Constitution Sean M Fiil Flynn Associate Director Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) American University Washington College of Law (202) 274-4157; Cell 202-294-5749 October 12, 2011 Today, Senator Wyden released a…
On October 2, the Anticounterfeiting Trade Agreement was signed by Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States. The signing statement issued at the ceremony called the agreement “a significant achievement in the fight against the…
ACTA to Be Signed – But Can it Enter into Force? It has been reported in global press this week that ACTA will be signed October 1 in Japan. But that does not mean that ACTA actually goes into…
It has been reported in the global press this week that ACTA will be signed October 1 in Japan. But that does not mean that ACTA actually goes into effect. ACTA Article 40 states that the “Agreement shall enter into…
With the U.S. round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) underway in Chicago, intellectual property and information policy experts from around the world have released a Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest that challenges the dominant direction…
WEBCAST August 25, 2011 10:00 Release of EU Greens Draft Analysis of ACTA 11:00 Analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement CONTACTS: Megan Smith | megans@wcl.american.edu | 202-274-4276 Sean Flynn | sflynn@wcl.american.edu | 202-294-5749 Draft Reports: Draft Report:…
The Mexican Senate has asked President Calderon to reject ACTA. A statement by a group of Senators led by Eloy Cantu Segovia (translated by Geraldine Juarez, and printed in English on Techdirt) said that ACTA “would violate the principle of…
The EU Directorate General for External Policies has issued a report on ACTA in advance of this fall’s debate over ratification. Its primary recommendation is that “unconditional consent would be an inappropriate response from the European Parliament given the issues…
The EC has produced a Proposal for a Council Decision recommending against further review of ACTA before it is passed by the European Parliament. The document opens with an explanatory memo noting that “the Commission has opted not to propose…
The following blog was written by Geraldine Jaurez, and posted to TechDirt: Last Tuesday, the Second Standing Commission of the Mexican Congress unanimously approved a resolution promoted by Senator Francisco Castellon P(artido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD) exhorting the Executive…
Geraldine Juarez in Mexico, geraldine@hipertextual.com, reports that the Mexican Congress has approved a resolution asking the president to not sign ACTA. She reports that, in a public hearing after the voting with citizens, senators from the presidential party PAN assured…