US Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency

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US Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 12, 2010 @05:15AM from the yet-we-still-see-right-through-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The US Trade Representative issued a release just prior to the launch of the New Zealand round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations that has left no doubt the US is the biggest barrier to official release of the ACTA text. Unlike most other ACTA countries that have called for transparency without condition, the US has set conditions that effectively seek to trade its willingness to release the text for gains on the substance of the text."

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People are fighting ACTA by click2005 · 2010-04-12 05:16 · Score: 5, Informative

http://www.stopacta.info/alertbox

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maaaan by unity100 · 2010-04-12 05:20 · Score: 4, Informative

they actually said it. one member of this 'trade house commitee' assured corporations recently that 'consumer groups' participation would be kept to a minimum'.

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1. Re:maaaan by commodore64_love · 2010-04-12 05:53 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Corporations (or tress or rocks or other non-humans) should not be allowed to lobby the People's representatives.
  And yes I know corporations consist of people. They are still allowed to speak, as individuals.
  
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documenting it on http://en.swpat.org by ciaran_o_riordan · 2010-04-12 05:31 · Score: 5, Informative
Luckily for democracy, the process is leaking like an old bucket anyway.
- ACTA overview
- 201001 acta.pdf as text - the big leak, pretty much complete
- ACTA-6437-10.pdf as text - earlier leak, including comments from the EU representative
swpat.org is a publicly editable wiki, help in documenting this is very welcome.
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Re:Hope, Transparency, Change. by Sloppy · 2010-04-12 05:42 · Score: 4, Informative

and a gop administration would be different, how?
What part of "no change" did you not understand?

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