Showing posts with label acta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acta. Show all posts
03 March 2019

This Could Be The Most Important Email You Will Ever Send To Your MEP

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As most people reading this will know by now, the deeply-flawed EU Copyright Directive faces one final vote in the European Parliament soon...
31 October 2014

Response to EU Ombudsman's Consultation on TTIP Transparency

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The EU Ombudsman is running a consultation on how to improve the transparency of the TTIP negotiations.  This shouldn't be hard, ...
25 July 2014

European Commission Admits It Plans To Put 'Corporate Christmas List' Of IP Demands Into TAFTA/TTIP

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A few months ago, we quoted the EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht , who is responsible for handling the TAFTA/TTIP negotiations on the...

TTIP Updates - The Glyn Moody blogs

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At the start of 2012 I began a series of posts about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - ACTA. These took the form of updates on how...
24 July 2014

TTIP Update IV

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One of the key issues during the ACTA negotiations was transparency - or rather the lack of it. Despite a few...

European Commission: ACTA Is Dead, Long Live ACTA?

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The first six months of 2012 saw Europeans taking to the streets in order to kill off ACTA in the European Union. Against all the odds, ...
24 November 2013

ISDS: ACTA by the Back Door?

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As I noted in my last TTIP update , things are beginning to get moving again on this front. One reflection of the growing interesting in...
23 November 2013

TTIP Update II

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As I noted in my first TTIP Update about the current negotiations between the EU and US over a massive trade agreement that is far fro...
27 October 2013

TPP Negotiations Deprive New Zealanders Of Promised Copyright Consultation -- For Secret Reasons

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One of the myths perpetuated by governments taking part in major international treaty negotiations like ACTA, TPP and TAFTA/TTIP is that ...
26 October 2013

TTIP Update I

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At the start of this year I flagged up the likelihood that hugely important trade negotations between the EU and US would start in due ...

EU Copyright: The Right to Read and the Right to Mine

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A year ago the European Parliament rejected ACTA - a real milestone in the fight to bring some balance to copyright, since it was the fi...
19 September 2013

EU Mandate For TAFTA Leaked: Includes Investor-State Dispute Resolution For Intellectual Monopolies

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One of the concerns about TAFTA/TTIP is that it would repeat the mistakes of ACTA and SOPA as far as intellectual monopolies were concer...
20 July 2013

Not Learning From ACTA: IPR Protection And Enforcement Seen As 'Less Difficult Issue' For TAFTA/TTIP

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Despite increasing calls for the imminent TAFTA/TTIP trade negotiations to be conducted as openly as possible, it seems likely that, a...

Please Write to MEPs *Now* about TAFTA/TTIP

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Sorry to trouble you again this week, but there's an important vote in INTA today (25 April) on the transatlantic trade agreement (TA...

Why CISPA Shows We Need Strong EU Data Protection

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It seems hard to believe that it was only a little over a year ago that the threat from the US SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) was averted (...
24 April 2013

Please Write to MEPs *Now* about TAFTA/TTIP

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There's an important vote in INTA today (25 April) on the transatlantic trade agreement (TAFTA/TTIP), and there are some crucial issu...
14 April 2013

How Multilateral Free Trade Agreements Are Bypassing Democratic Decision-Making Around The World

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One of the most worrying aspects of ACTA -- which began life as a "simple" treaty about combatting counterfeit goods -- was how...
31 March 2013

Public Well-Being Must Be 'Primary Measurement' Of US-EU Trade Agreement

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Now that the US and EU have officially announced the start of talks on a new bilateral free trade agreement -- sorry, a "trade an...

Why Site Blocking Orders Need To Be Challenged In Court

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There is an extremely dangerous trend to remove proper judicial review from cases involving alleged copyright infringement. Sometimes t...
11 February 2013

European Court Of Human Rights: No, Copyright Does Not Automatically Trump Freedom Of Expression

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As many know, copyright had its origins in censorship and control . But over the last few hundred years, that fact has been obscured by ...