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Timeline
Futur
- August 2010 - Tenth round of negotiations to be held in Washington, USA
Present
- July 13th, 2010 - Consolidated version of the ACTA text dated July 1st, 2010
Past
- June 28th - July 1st 2010 - Ninth round of negotiations held in Luzern, Switzerland
- April 21st, 2010 - The negociating parties published the documents of the 8th round of negotiations held in Wellington
- April 12th-16th, 2010 - Eighth round of negotiations held in Wellington, New Zealand
- January 26th-29th, 2010 - Seventh round of negotiations held in Mexico
- November 3rd-6th, 2009 - Sixth round of negotiations held in Seoul, South Korea
- July 16th-17th, 2009 - Fifth round of negotiations held in Rabat, Morocco
- March 2009 - The European Parliament passes a resolution calling for the public availability of all ACTA materials. The U.S. government denies requests for access to ACTA documents on national security grounds but promises to review its approach.
- December 15th-18th, 2008 - Fourth round of negotiations held in Paris, France
- October 8th-9th, 2008 - Third round of negotiations held in Tokyo, Japan
- July 29th-31st, 2008 - Second round of negotiations held in Washington, DC
- June 3rd-4th, 2008 - First round of negotiations held in Geneva
- November 2007 - April 2008 - Governments conduct initial consultations on ACTA.
- October 2007 - The United States, European Union, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Canada announce plans to negotiate ACTA.
ACTA
Since Spring 2008, the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as a few other countries have been secretly negotiating a trade agreement aimed at enforcing copyright and tackling counterfeited goods (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). Specifically, leaked documents show that one of the major goal of the treaty is to force signatory countries into implementing anti file-sharing policies under the form of three-strikes schemes and net filtering practices.
At a time when important debates are taking place on the need to adapt copyright to the digital age, this treaty would bypass democratic processes in order to enforce a fundamentally irrelevant regulatory regime. It would profoundly alter the very nature of the Internet as we know it by putting an end to Net neutrality.
See the most worrying provisions under discussions and the three core reasons for rejecting ACTA.
Dossier
- Consolidated version of the ACTA text dated July 1st, 2010
- Joint industry statement on ACTA dated June 8th, 2010
- Round Nine Agenda
- Position of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) on ACTA
- Consolidated version of the ACTA text dated January 18th, 2010
- HAI Europe comments on ACTA stakeholder consultation
- Tract and poster to urge MEPs to sign the written declaration
- Resolution from the European Parliament opposing the current negotiation process regarding the ACTA
- Written declaration 12/2010
- Open Letter to EU institutions
- EDRi's FAQ on ACTA digital chapter
- European Commission's analysis of the draft digital Chapter
- Summary of Internet Chapter
- Global overview of ACTA
- FFII's analysis of ACTA and Memo on the EU competence to conclude trade agreements under the Lisbon treaty
- EFF essay: The impact of ACTA on the knowledge economy
- MPAA letter to U.S Congress
- European Parliament Resolution on ACTA
- WeRebuild.eu's introduction to ACTA: Analysis and introduction to key actors
- Letter to the French Minister of the Economy, Christine Lagarde, regarding ACTA
