Showing posts with label concerns about Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concerns about Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Show all posts

Saturday, May 14, 2011

ACTA Still Open To Interpretation, Legal Experts Say; Transparency Fight Ongoing; Intellectual Property Watch, 5/10/11

Monika Ernert, Intellectual Property Watch; ACTA Still Open To Interpretation, Legal Experts Say; Transparency Fight Ongoing:

"In the United States, ACTA is planned to be passed by executive order and without involvement of Congress, which is possible as long as there is no need to update national law in the US. Yet a study by Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress done on request of Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and kept under the wraps until recently notes that “Depending on how broadly or narrowly several passages from the ACTA draft text are interpreted, it appears that certain provisions of federal intellectual property could be regarded as inconsistent with ACTA.""