[Infowarrior] - EC summary memo on ACTA leaked

[Richard Forno]

European Commission "advance warning" summary on ACTA Internet  
Chapter, 30 Sep 2009
 From Wikileaks

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/European_Commission_%22advance_warning%22_summary_on_ACTA_Internet_Chapter%2C_30_Sep_2009

Released November 6, 2009

Summary
The paper presents what appears to be a short summary of the "Internet  
chapter" of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The  
summary is supposed to inform member states about the part of ACTA  
that will deal with internet enforcement and will be discussed at the  
Seoul meeting of ACTA.

Notably, the "Internet chapter" is being drafted by USTR, a US lead  
ACTA negotiator group, and its creation process even within the ACTA  
working group itself, remains obscure. While the US has given a  
"detailed oral description" of the drafted internet chapter, the draft  
documents themselves are subject to "confidentiality clauses" between  
"goverment agencies" and a "number of private stakeholders". The  
presented summary is to give "advance-warning" and "preliminary  
indication of the content" of the upcoming US proposal.

The content of the summary reflect details that have appeared in the  
media recently, including rights management and especially related  
enforcement, as well as the US-centric development of enforcement on  
the Internet.

The Seoul meeting has just ended, having taken place from 4th to 6th  
of November 2009. The US proposal seems to have been debated there  
more widely.

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/European_Commission_%22advance_warning%22_summary_on_ACTA_Internet_Chapter%2C_30_Sep_2009