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=== ACTA Background Information ===
This section reflects information about ACTA today and the history behind.

== Timeline ==

http://www.dipity.com/michaelgeist/personal

== Sources ==

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:ACTA

http://keionline.org/acta

== Amelia's notes ==

About ACTA recently:
2008:

http://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/EU%20Council%20refuses%20to%20release%20secret%20ACTA%20documents

What happens is, Ante Wessels from FFII requested documents citing
that the text of the treaty, based on leaked documents, appeared to
simulate legislation. The ombudsman could not grant the request not
having seen the documents. The ombudsman still cannot grant the
request due to not being shown the documents.

2009:

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Classified_US%2C_Japan_and_EU_ACTA_trade_agreement_drafts%2C_2009

http://werebuild.eu/wiki/index.php/The_Impact_of_the_Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement_on_the_Knowledge_Economy:_The_Accountability_of_the_Office_of_the_U.S._Trade_Representative_for_the_Creation_of_IP_Enforcement_Norms_Through_Executive_Trade_Agreements

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/European_Commission_%22advance_warning%22_summary_on_ACTA_Internet_Chapter%2C_30_Sep_2009

What these documents show are: differences in opinions about the tex
of the treaty. In particular, note that EU advocates a treaty that
does not require legislative changes in the union (if you doubt me on
this, I will dig up everything I have on precedents in legislations
and especially border measures). The EFF essay is about the need for
transparency in making of public policy. Note that they don't call
ACTA legislation. The EC advance warning should be understood in the
context of the US trying to enforce a treaty that _would_ require EU
legislation to change, while the EU does not want that. However, the
EU is large enough an economic area to stand up to the US.

About preliminaries to ACTA (World Customs Organisation: SECURE standards):

2008:

http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=952&Itemid=67

http://www.keionline.org/content/view/188/1

It's incredibly important to understand that the roots of ACTA lie in
the SECURE standards project pushed in the World Customs Organisation
between 2005-2007. I have found the above documents to be very helpful
in getting an overview of the SECURE standards project. Especially
note that WCO functions as a democratic, international forum with one
vote per nation and many third world members. ACTA supercedes that by
excluding third world nations.

EU-South Korea FTA:

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=443&serie=273&langId=en

Read the FTA carefully. EuroISPA have reacted on chapter 10 which they
fear will narrow down the scope of mere conduit in the e-commerce
directive from 2001, and i recently heard from Köhler, Green group
advisor on international trade agreements, that the IP sections are
really to be studied as well.

Please feel free to contact Amelia for additional information:

amelia.andersdotter (at) piratpartiet.se

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