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ACTA Treaty Signed by the United States… on October 1, 2011
The United States, Australia, Canada, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Morocco, and Singapore signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) at a ceremony on October 1, 2011, in Tokyo, marking an important step forward in the international fight against trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy.

"Why should you care about #ACTA? Initial reports indicate that the treaty will have a very broad scope and will involve new tools targeting “Internet distribution and information technology."
" What is the goal of ACTA? Reportedly the goal is to create new legal standards of intellectual property enforcement, as well as increased international cooperation, an example of which would be an increase in information sharing between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies." (http://inewp.com/)"
Both the Bush administration and the Obama administration had rejected requests to make the text of ACTA public, with the White House saying that disclosure would cause "damage to the national security." In 2009, Knowledge Ecology International filed a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request in the United States, but their entire request was denied. The Office of the United States Trade Representative's Freedom of Information office stated the request was withheld for being material "properly classified in the interest of national security." US Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) penned a letter on 23 November 2009, asking the United States Trade Representative to make the text of the ACTA public. (Wikipedia) Now that the treaty has been signed, the text of it is now available at http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/economy/i_property/pdfs/acta1105_en.pdf

Poland is due to sign it on January 28th, and the European Union has until March of 2013 to agree to it. India and the South American countries have been resistant.

For more information, please see the other posts and their links here on our page, and visit http://inewp.com/?p=10655 and scroll down to "Essential ACTA Resources"

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ACTA Signing Participants in Tokyo, Japan on October 1, 2011. On October 1, 2011, eight ACTA negotiating partners signed what will become the highest-standard plurilateral agreement ever achieved conc…

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