Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA | Electronic Frontier Foundation »

Posted By berkeley 2 weeks, 4 days ago in Science & Technology

Negotiations on the highly controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement start in a few hours in Seoul, South Korea. This week's closed negotiations will focus on enforcement in the digital environment.

Let's reflect on what this means: First, the US government appears to be pushing for Three Strikes to be part of the new global IP enforcement regime which ACTA is intended to create – despite the fact that it has been categorically rejected by the European Parliament and by national policymakers in several ACTA negotiating countries, and has never been proposed by US legislators.

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