Michael Geist has a link to the leaked EU comments on the chapter for third party liability on the internet – being drafted by the USA.
The Guardian has weighed into the debate.
Kim Weatherall has emerged from her self-imposed seclusion to comment here, here and here.
DFAT’s must recent summary and overview of key elements. Anondyne USTR statement.
Selected microblog posts from the past week:
The USTR has released a 6 page (pdf) outline of issues being dealt with under the proposed ACTA.
Link via Intellectual Property Watch.
The IP Dragon has links to a 48 page document with rather more information.
More tea leaf sifting here.
The “gang” secretly negotiating ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeitng Treaty) is starting to attract increasingly organised opposition:
* ”100 groups” (ranging from the EFF in the USA to the Australian National University to …) have signed a “letter” challenging much of what is (assumed) to be going on behind closed doors
* China, supported by Brazil and India, amongst others, has launched a campaign to force ACTA back into WIPO
Of course, one might speculate that the developing countries or the “South” (in a non-US civil war sense) might feel they have better voting prospects in WIPO than, say, a treaty which is being negotiated without them by, apparently, Australia, Canada, European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, United States, and the United Arab Emirates. Then again, one might wonder if that will dissuade the gang of 13 (if one may count the EU as “one”) from rushing headlong onwards?
