[Ip-health] Joint Statement of countries negotiating ACTA: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

[Miles Teg]

Well ain't this dandy. Welcome to the club rich country citizens!
Untransparent, unaccountable, undemocratic,
bought-and-paid-for-but-sold-by-Obama! Yes we can!

Inadequate attention on Special 301 by progressives every but especially
in the US contributes to ACTA. Special 301is part of the _same_
enforcement agenda. It is now is coming home to roost. Liking them
apples yet?

Special 301 is unilateral, untransparent and unaccountable and has a
stifling effect on production and investment.

It is logical that monopoly capitalism will take it further given the
tolerance (especially in the rich countries) for these kinds of measures...



Thiru Balasubramaniam wrote:
> http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/fo/pr=
ess-release-communique.aspx
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> Joint Statement: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
>
> June 12, 2009
> Joint Statement
>
> 1. Australia, Canada, the European Union and its Member States, Japan,
> the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore,
> Switzerland and the United States today announced that they are moving
> forward on the negotiation of an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
> (ACTA) to step up the fight against global counterfeiting and piracy.
>
> 2. The participants in the ACTA negotiations will next meet in Morocco
> in July to continue their discussions with a view to reaching an
> agreement in 2010. Today=92s announcement emphasizes the participants=92
> goal to combat global infringements of intellectual property
> rights(IPR), particularly in the context of counterfeiting and piracy,
> by increasing international cooperation, strengthening the framework
> of practices that contribute to effective enforcement, and
> strengthening relevant IPR enforcement measures themselves.
>
> 3. In addition, the ACTA negotiators reaffirmed the importance of
> information disclosure on the progress on ACTA to the public.
>
> Background
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> 4. Negotiations on the ACTA began in June 2008. The objective of the
> ACTA negotiations is to negotiate a new, state-of-the art agreement to
> combat counterfeiting and piracy. The Parties negotiating the
> agreement include Australia, Canada, the European Union and its 27
> Member States, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, South
> Korea, Switzerland and the United States. When it is finalized, the
> ACTA is intended to assist in the efforts of governments around the
> world to more effectively combat the proliferation of counterfeit and
> pirated goods, which undermines legitimate trade and the sustainable
> development of the world economy, and in some cases contributes to
> organized crime and exposes consumers to dangerous fake products.
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> Thiru Balasubramaniam
> Geneva Representative
> Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
> thiru@keionline.org
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