IP/Internet/New Media Blog

These are likely to be two of the best posts you will read regarding the recently released ACTA text, filed at Balkinization by Margot Kaminski of the Yale Information Society Project:

• The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
• The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Part II

From Kaminski’s more recent post:

The big picture issues are unchanged: 1) ACTA establishes a new institution outside of existing international law; 2) ACTA pushes the international standard for IP law to an IP-maximalist’s dream; and 3) when you establish the information-sharing and investigative infrastructure, bad things (civil liberty violations) will follow.

In keeping with the letter of the video on transformative works, if perhaps not in the tone: