Alleged New ACTA Draft Text Leaked 14/07/2010 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)The latest text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) reflecting the late June – early July negotiations in Lucerne, Switzerland has allegedly been leaked, just after being placed in a secret reading room for the European Parliament (IPW, IP Burble, 14 July 2010). Non-governmental group La Quadrature du Net announced today (Bastille Day) that it has released the latest text, available here. European Union negotiators had lamented to Intellectual Property Watch after Lucerne (IPW, Bilateral/Regional Negotiations, 2 July 2010) that the latest text was kept secret despite an earlier version having been released in April, this time supposedly withheld by one of the 11 negotiating delegations on the grounds that there were few significant changes. This draft appears to show the latest changes and the delegations associated with them. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related "Alleged New ACTA Draft Text Leaked" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Miles Teg says 16/07/2010 at 9:04 pm So much for democracy at the EU! Negotiations being conducted in secret on a matter that affects a large range of people with the prime beneficiaries being corporations of an old dying paradigm. Setting intellectual property norms should not be done in private as was the case with the WHO work on neglected diseases. It is objectionable and Europeans should wake up to the incredible injustice done to consumers…. Reply