News
- 08/09/10 European Parliament Vs. ACTA: Rejection is the only option
- 14/07/10 New ACTA leak: 2010 07 13 consolidated text (Luzern round)
- 05/07/10 WD12 on ACTA: It's the Final Countdown!
- 01/07/10 ACTA calls to urgently rethink patents and copyright (open letter)
- 29/06/10 ACTA negotiators don't care about the Internet
- 28/06/10 EXCLUSIVE: Pictures of the ACTA negotiations
- 28/06/10 The ACTA casino must be closed.
- 26/06/10 In the ACTA poker, repression is exported
- 24/06/10 Leak: EU pushes for criminalizing non-commercial usages in ACTA
- 14/06/10 WD12 on ACTA: 150 signatures to go, time to call!
Press review
- 06/09/10 [MichaelGeist] ACTA Text Leaks: U.S. Concedes on Secondary Liability, Wants To Go Beyond DMCA on Digital Locks
- 02/09/10 [Euractiv.com] US told EU to hide ACTA from public
- 23/08/10 [EurActiv.com] Anti-counterfeit trade deal planned for September
- 20/08/10 [EurActiv.com] Policing the Internet?
- 20/08/10 [Euractiv.com] EU-US food fight hampers ACTA talks
- 18/08/10 [ArsTechnica] Negotiators confirm ACTA not really a "counterfeiting" treaty
- 29/07/10 [IPWatch] Civil Society Groups Warn EU On ACTA
- 21/07/10 [LiveMint.com] India may complain to WTO if Acta is enforced: Khullar
- 16/07/10 [NYTimes] Disagreements on Transparency Fail to Stop ACTA Treaty Leak
- 15/07/10 [Slashdot] Latest Version of ACTA Leaks
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.
Reference documents
- Text from the eighth round de negotiations held in New Zealand
- European Parliament resolution opposing the current negotiation process regarding the ACTA
- European Parliament resolution of 18 December 2008 on the impact of counterfeiting on international trade
Dossier
- Consolidated version of the ACTA text dated August 25th, 2010
- Consolidated version of the ACTA text dated July 1st, 2010 and its transcription
- 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 and its transcription
- 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
URGENT !
Contact MEPs to urge them to sign the written declaration 12 addressing important issues regarding the content of ACTA.
Only 16 signatures to get for the written declaration be adopted!
Next and last plenary session : Sept. 6th - 9th, in Strasbourg.
Timeline
Futur
- September 23rd - (?) - Eleventh (and probably last) round of negotiations to be held in Tokyo, Japan
Present
Past
- August 16th-20th, 2010 - Tenth round of negotiations held in Washington, USA
- July 13th, 2010 - Consolidated version of the ACTA text dated July 1st, 2010
- 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.
