As the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement rolls forward, it’s clear that some kind of Internet « enforcement » will end up in the text; but what kind? Thirty-eight corporate lawyers and 4 public interest lawyers are the only ones with a say.
Turns out that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will include a section on Internet « enforcement procedures » after all. And how many people have had input on these procedures? Forty-two. […]
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) found out in September that the US Trade Representative’s office had actually been secretly canvassing opinions on the Internet section of the agreement from 42 people, all of whom had signed a nondisclosure agreement before being shown the ACTA draft text.
After filing a Freedom of Information Act request (the names of the 42 people were considered a matter of « national security » and were not released voluntarily), KEI yesterday revealed the list of people who have had access to the ACTA Internet provisions. Here are the first 32 names, all of them people outside of USTR […]
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/these-42-people-are-shaping-us-internet-enforcement-policy.ars