Opening Pandora’s box:
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) 2011 - Twitter hashtag #ACTA - is a controversial trade agreement designed to provide for stronger enforcement of intellectual property rights.
There’s been much concern that the treaty was secretly negotiated by a limited number of nation states - including the United States, Japan, the members of the European Union, Switzerland, Singapore, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Mexico. There has been little in the way of democratic input from developing countries, civil society groups or affected communities. Professor Peter Yu has observed that ACTA is a “bad country club agreement”.
The preamble to the treaty reads like pulp fiction – ACTA raises moral panics about piracy, counterfeiting, organised crime, and border security. The agreement contains provisions on civil remedies and criminal offences; copyright law and trade mark law; the regulation of the digital environment; and border measures.
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