Selected KEI blogs and letters on provisions in ACTA, TPP and other trade agreements on copyright damages and access to orphan works.
2009
June 15, 2009, James Love, Damages, Injunctions and Transparency Key Issues in ACTA Negotiations. Available at /blogs/2009/06/15/thoughts-acta-negotiations
July 31, 2009, James Love, ACTA and Changes in Global Norms for Damages and Injunctions (For Enforcement of Intellectual Property). Available at /blogs/2009/07/31/acta-injunctions
2010
April 6, 2010, James Love, ACTA Provisions on Injunctions and Damages. Available at https://www.keionline.org/node/826
July 14, 2010, James Love, ACTA’s Article 2.2.1, on damages:the July 1, 2010 text, https://www.keionline.org/node/888
August 10, 2010. KEI Staff, Letter to President of Mexico regarding ACTA, https://www.keionline.org/node/913
October 9, 2010. Areas where the Oct 2, 2010 ACTA text is inconsistent with U.S. law, https://www.keionline.org/node/970
October 20, 2010, James Love, Access to Orphan Works, and ACTA Provisions on Damages. Available at https://www.keionline.org/node/980
October 22, 2010. James Love. USTR’s implausible claim that ACTA Article 1.2 is an all purpose loophole, and the ramifications if true, https://www.keionline.org/node/990
October 25, 2010, James Love, KEI Letter to the European Parliament regarding ACTA, October 25, 2010. Available at https://www.keionline.org/node/992
November 16, 2010, James Love, A KEI Note to Library of Congress About ACTA Text. Available at https://www.keionline.org/node/1021
November 17, 2010, James Love, Non-responsive Letter from David Kappos of USPTO to Senators Sanders and Brown Regarding ACTA Consistency with US Law. Available at https://www.keionline.org/node/1022
2011
April 26, 2011, James Love, Senator Wyden Releases redacted version of October 29, 2010 CRS report on ACTA. Available at https://www.keionline.org/node/1123
August 31, 2011. Krist Cox. KEI comments on inconsistencies between USTR proposal for the TPPA and current US law. https://www.keionline.org/node/1216
September 30, 2011, James Love and Krista Cox, Two Areas Where ACTA is Inconsistent with US Law, Injunctions and Damages. Available at https://www.keionline.org/node/1289
2012
February 26, 2012, James Love, What’s (Still) Wrong with ACTA, and Why Governments Should Reject the Illegitimate Agreement. Available at https://www.keionline.org/acta
2013
May 2, 2013. James Love. USTR “listening session” for public interest groups on TTIP trade negotiations. https://www.keionline.org/node/1714
August 1, 2013. Manon Ress, Quick look at the Green Paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy. https://www.keionline.org/node/1781
September 28, 2013, Krista Cox, Evolving Copyright and the Relationship With the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). Available at https://www.keionline.org/node/1802
November 13, 2013. James Love, KEI analysis of Wikileaks leak of TPP IPR text, from August 30, 2013, https://www.keionline.org/node/1825
November 20, 2013, James Love, KEI TPP Note: Damages Language in IP Chapter Conflicts with US Copyright Law, Blocks Green Paper Reforms. Available at https://www.keionline.org/node/1829
2014
March 17, 2014, Claire Cassedy, Discussion on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization at US Copyright Office, March 10-11, 2014. Available at https://www.keionline.org/node/1978
2015
June 4, 2015. James Love, US Copyright office proposes limits on damages, injunctions, for Orphan Works, contradicting TPP language, https://www.keionline.org/node/2240
July 22, 2105. KEI letter to Register of Copyrights, USPTO and OSTP on copyright issues in TPP. https://www.keionline.org/node/2289