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No. 105
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - Since Spring
2008, the European Union, the United States, Japan,
Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as a few other
countries have been secretly negotiating a trade
agreement aimed at enforcing copyright and tackling
counterfeited goods (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
Agreement). Specifically, leaked documents show that
one of the major goal of the treaty is to force
signatory countries into implementing anti file-
sharing policies under the form of three-strikes
schemes and net filtering practices.
At a time when important debates are taking place on
the need to adapt copyright to the digital age, this
treaty would bypass democratic processes in order to
enforce a fundamentally irrelevant regulatory regime.
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