[Ecommerce] The Problem with ACTA (and what to do about it) by Aaron Shaw in KE Studies

[Manon Ress]

The Problem with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (and what to
do about it) by Aaron Shaw

http://kestudies.org/ojs/index.php/kes

Quote:
In mid-February 2008, the Office of the United States Trade
Representative (USTR) issued a request for public comments on the
proposed =93Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement=94 (ACTA). However, with
the exception of a handful of press releases, information about the
proposal itself remains scarce. Mainstream media outlets have printed
USTR officials' talking points about the importance of winning =93the
fight against fakes,=94 but have failed to analyze either the origins or
the nature of the ACTA in any detail. What is ACTA? Where did it come
from? How would it affect the trade and governance of the knowledge-
based economy? In what follows, I provide preliminary answers to these
questions and argue that ACTA would impose a narrow trade agenda at
the expense of global cooperation and evidence-based policies.
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