On October 19, 2010, Senators Bernard Sanders (I-VT) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) have written to David Kappos, the Director of the USPTO, asking for an assessment of conflicts between the October 2010 ACTA text, and U.S. law. Continue Reading →
(This timeline is part of a larger project at KEI regarding an evaluation of the 1971 Appendix to the Berne Convention on “SPECIAL PROVISIONS REGARDING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.) In 1970, Charles F. Johnson wrote “The Origins of the Stockholm Protocol, 18… Continue Reading →
Text: 1967 Stockholm Revision of the Berne Convention Protocol Regarding Developing Countries (This html text may contain from errors from an OCR scan. Official copies of the text and a meeting report are also attached at the end of this… Continue Reading →
Note: On October 8, 2010, Senator Wyden asked the American Law Division of the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress undertake and provide to Congress: Continue Reading →
Noting the ACTA is being negotiated as an “executive agreement” because “it is not intended to impact U.S. law, but that “some experts outside of government are raising concerns that the ACTA text is contrary to U.S. law and its application or would present a barrier to changes in U.S. Continue Reading →
Notes on the October 7, 2010 USTR NGO briefing on ACTA
By Judit Rius Sanjuan & Anne Mira Guha
Today, USTR held a nearly 2-hour public briefing on the new version of the ACTA text. USTR representatives present included Stan McCoy, Kira Alvarez, and Rachel Bae. Stan and Kira did most of the talking at the meeting.
Below is the statement delivered by KEI on Thursday, 23 September 2010 to the 48th WIPO General Assemblies on agenda item 27 dealing with Report on the Work of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR).
Statement of Knowledge Ecology International
48th Session of the WIPO ASSEMBLIES
Thursday, 23 September 2010
Item 27: Report on the Work of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)