ACTA: Worldwide Coverage and Analysis

ACTA continues to receive considerable analysis and coverage from bloggers around the globe: Australia

• Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: Impact on Individuals and Intermediaries by the Australian Digital Alliance
• Opinion: The Devil is in ACTA's details by Matt Dawes at Itnews
• Activists sign petition to open up ACTA talks at itnews
• Australia comes clean on ACTA role at itnews
• ACTA: DMCA Mark II? by Kate Lundy
• ACTA – Australian Section by Section Analysis by Kimberlee G. Weatherall
• ACTA April 2010 - Analysis of Provisions by Kimberlee G. Weatherall
• ACTA: new (leaked) text, new issues... by Kimberlee G. Weatherall

Brazil

• Untoward Restrictions to Trade and Abuses of Intellectual Property Rights: A Brazilian Perspective to the ACTA Exercise by Denis Borges Barbosa

Canada

• New ACTA leak: It’s a screwjob for the world’s poor countries by Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing
• Three Strikes... unintended consequences for Canadians? by CIRA CEO Byron Holland
• CIPPIC Submission on ACTA
• A Canadian View of ACTA at EFF
• Copyright Undercover: ACTA & the Web by Cory Doctrorow
• ACTA: All Global Treaties are Local by Blayne Haggart

Europe

• Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: deliberate confusion at FFII
• Legal opinion from The European Parliament Legal Service that the persistent failure to disclose ACTA documents could lead to legal action
• EU competence to conclude Free Trade Agreements under the Lisbon Treaty at FFI
• Leaked ACTA Digital Enforcement Chapter at European Digital Rights

France

• French view on ACTA at EFF
• Brief: The fundamentals of ACTA at La Quadrature
• Leak: EU pushes for criminalizing non-commercial usages in ACTA at La Quadrature
• Three core reasons for rejecting ACTA at La Quadrature
• EC on ACTA Internet Chapter at La Quadrature wiki
• European Parliament strongly opposes ACTA’s democratic deficit at La Quadrature
• ACTA and the European Commission: The great escape at La Quadrature

Germany

• ACTA Draft Has Been Published. And Now? by Axel H. Horns
• News From ACTA Negotiations by Axel H. Horns
• From TRIPS to ACTA: Towards a New ‘Gold Standard’ in Criminal IP Enforcement? (Research Paper) by Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan
• A Trade Agreement Creating Barriers to International Trade? Seizures of Generic Drugs in Transit and International IP Enforcement (Research Paper) by Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan

India

• ACTA Text Released: Impact on India and Other Developing Countries by Amlan Mohanty at Spicy IP
• ACTA – A Draft Trade Agreement with a Potential to Create Trade Barriers? Dr. Henning Grobe Ruse-Khan at Spicy IP
• In ACTA India does (not) trust from Spicy IP
• India Slams ACTA at Trips Council: Addresses Specific Concerns from Spicy IP
• ACTA: A New Culture of Damages.... from Spicy IP
• ACTA: Protecting Innovation or Safeguarding Imperialistic Needs? (Research Paper) by Satabdee Mohanty and Tanay Nandi

International

• ACTA Negotiators Vow To Mesh With National-Level Rights; Withhold New Text at IP Watch
• China, India To Raise Concerns At WTO About “TRIPS-Plus” Measures, ACTA at IP Watch
• Indian Official: ACTA Out Of Sync With TRIPS and Public Health at IP Watch
• ACTA Risks Long-Term Damage To Democratic Public Policymaking, NGOs Say at IP Watch
• Some critical notes on ACTA strategy from TACD
• Smokescreen on ACTA from TACD
• Resolution on enforcement of copyright, trademarks, patents and other intellectual property rights by TACD
• Council debates anti-counterfeiting talks, patents on life at the WTO
• International anti-counterfeiting talks hit snags says EU at IT World

Korea

• Korean view on ACTA at EFF

The Netherlands

• No Definition of Commercial Scale in ACTA by Blog Van Vrijschrift
• Netherlands requires renewed openness ACTA at Webwereld

New Zealand

• Opinion: Countering the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement by Jonathon Penney at Computerworld

United States

• The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement by Morgot Kaminski at Balkinization
• The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Part II by Morgot Kaminski at Balkinization
• ACTA’s Digital Enforcement Provisions by Morgot Kaminski at Balkinization
• Old Problems Remain in New ACTA Text by Rashmi Rangnath at Public Knowledge
• ACTA means trouble, but don’t take our word for it by Mart Kuhn at Public Knowledge
• Intellectual Property Owners Oppose Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement by Mart Kuhn at Public Knowledge
• U.S. Government Denies that ACTA Mandates Filtering or Three Strikes, But Questions On its Contents Remain at Public Knowledge
• Preliminary Analysis of the ACTA Text by Sean Flynn at PIJIP
• ACTA and Access to Medicines by Sean Flynn at PIJIP
• ACTA – Civil Enforcement Summary by Lydia Grunstra at PIJIP
• Preliminary Comparison of the Consolidated ACTA Text and China's IP Law by Yicun Chen at PIJIP
• ACTA - Criminal Enforcement at PIJIP
• ACTA Section Analysis at PIJIP
• Notes from Meeting with ACTA Negotiators at PIJIP
• African Anti-Counterfeiting Laws at PIJIP
• Details of Secret IP Agreement Confirm Tech Industry Fears at CCIA.net
• ACTA Threatens Internet Freedom, US Business Overseas CCIA.net
• ACTA arrives (still bad, but a tiny bit better) by Nate Anderson at ars technica
• Praising, cursing ACTA: reactions roll in by Nate Anderson at ars technica
• India vows to sabotage ACTA by Nate Anderson at ars technica
• How ACTA Exports Worst Of US Copyright Law Without Corresponding Exceptions by Mike Masnick at Techdirt
• Does ACTA Kill Online Anonymity? by Mike Masnick at Techdirt
• US Copyright Official Pretends That Concerns About ACTA Are Unfounded; Mocks Legitimate Concerns by Mike Masnick at Techdirt
• Even US Intellectual Property Organization Concerned About ACTA Being Too Broad & Changing US Laws by Mike Masnick at Techdirt
• ACTA Negotiators Respond To Questions About ACTA; More Of The Same by Mike Masnick at Techdirt
• ACTA Released, Only Very Slightly Less Awful Than Expected by Karl Bode at techdirt
• A new breed of intellectual property enforcement institution? ACTA Chapter Five by Manon Ress at KEI
• India’s Intervention to the WTO TRIPS Council: TRIPS plus enforcement trends at KEI
• ACTA briefing by De Gucht in the European Parliament at KEI
• Comments on ACTA Provisions on Injunctions and Damages by James Love at KEI
• The July 1, 2010 ACTA text on injunctions by James Love at KEI
• ACTA's Article 2.3, on "Other Remedies" by James Love at KEI
• Article 2.2.1 ACTA, on damages. the July 1, 2010 text by James Love at KEI
• ACTA and changes in global norms for damages and injunctions (for enforcement of intellectual property) by James Love at KEI
• Transparency of FTAA negotiations, compared to ACTA by James Love at KEI
• China describes TRIPS Council proposal on ACTA and other plurilateral enforcement agreements by James Love at KEI
• WTO responds to concerns of the European Parliament on ACTA by Malini Aisola at KEI
• ACTA: the new institution by James Love at KEI
• EU proposes ACTA require criminal sanctions for inciting, aiding and abetting infringements by James Love at KEI
• Concerns with the Leaked Internet Chapter of ACTA by Computer & Communications Industry Association, Consumer Electronics Association, Home Recording Rights Coalition, Library Copyright Alliance, NetCoalition, and Public Knowledge
• Concerns With April 2010 ACTA Text by Library Copyright Alliance
• Silicon Valley Fears Big Liabilities In Small Print of Proposed Trade Agreement at BroadbandBreakfast
• Preliminary Analysis of the Officially Released ACTA Text by Gwen Hinze at EFF
• Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA by Gwen Hinze at EFF
• ACTA: International Harmonization at What Cost? by Gwen Hinze at EFF
• The Impact of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on the Knowledge Economy: The Accountability of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for the Creation of IP Enforcement Norms Through Executive Trade Agreements an essay by Eddan Katz and Gwen Hinze
• Stopping the ACTA Juggernaut by Eddan Katz at EFF
• Outrageous Treaty Nonsense, or The Copyright Tail Wagging the Internet Dog by David Post at The Volokh Conspiracy
• Petition: ACTA 'Threatens' Public Interests by Grant Gross at the New York Times
• ACTA Debate Gets Specific from the Center for Democracy & Technology
• Anti-counterfeiting agreement raises constitutional issues by Jack Goldsmith and Lawrence Lessig in the Washington Post
• Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement Undermines Efforts Toward Transparency by Gary Shapiro at Forbes
• Three tech associations oppose Obama IP effort on anti-counterfeiting deal at The Hill
• ACTA and the Specter of Graduated Response (Research Paper) by Annemarie Bridy
• Six Secret (and Now Open) Fears of ACTA (Research Paper) by Peter K. Yu
• Import Safety Rules Should Not Hinder Legitimate Generic Drug Markets: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) (Research Paper) by Kevin Outterson

United Kingdom

• Acta copyright treaty draft gets first public airing by David Meyer at ZDnet
• ACTA and intermediaries by Andres Guadamuz at Technollama
• How will ACTA affect UK copyright law? by Andres Guadamuz at Technollama
• International Proposals for the Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: International Concern with Counterfeiting and Piracy (Research Paper) by Michael Blakeney