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California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill sponsored by Sen. Alex Padilla that would allow police to search disk manufacturing plants without a warrant, and seize equipment used to manufacture illegal copies. Excerpt from S.B. 550: “Officers performing inspections may do so without providing prior notice or obtaining a warrant, and shall have the authority […]
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest ACTA Signed by Eight Nations On October 1, 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 infringement of […]
In the fact sheet from USTR on ACTA, which appears to be the document that was being floated to cleared advisors as the “signing statement,” USTR points to four agreements (in addition to GATT) that justify its entry into ACTA as a sole executive agreement. Of these, it appears that only one of the agreements […]
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 infringement of intellectual property rights, in particular the proliferation of counterfeiting and piracy on a […]
Next week, PIJIP Fellows Bijan Madhani and Michael Vasquez and I will be releasing our study for the EU parliament on the impact of ACTA on access to medicines in developing countries. A draft of the paper was released last month. Given that the agreement is being signed by some countries Saturday, I thought I […]
When the US signs ACTA tomorrow in Japan, the signing statement is likely to state something like “ACTA is entirely consistent with US law and therefore requires no implementing legislation.” This will be a defense of Obama’s new assertion of unilateral international law making power, dramatically expanding the scope of the president’s claimed authority to […]
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