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ACTA and EU IPR enforcement agenda
It is not only a question about what the Anti-Counterfeiting (and much more) Trade Agreement ACTA contains or not, because it is a part of an intellectual property enforcement agenda driven by the European Commission. Long before popular discontent...
Censorship, surveillance and ACTA in European Parliament
IT exports for web censorship, Internet surveillance and other trade matters will be discussed in the European Parliament. Thursday, 8 February 2012, the Committee on International Trade (INTA) of the European Parliament arranges a workshop on Intern...
ACTA: 1.717 million ”misinformed” citizens to ignore
I was reminded by @alexanderhanff on Twitter that the EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht asked members of the European Parliament to disregard public opposition to ACTA (Infojustice). In my view De Gucht's attitude (letter at La Quadrature du Net)...
”Hollywood versus The People” ACTA causes flood of protest
What the Pirate Party founder and inimitable digital freedom evangelist Rick Falkvinge calls the ”Hollywood versus The People” Anti-Counterfeiting (and much more) Trade Agreement ACTA has caused the biggest political protest storm ever among EU c...
ACTA demonstrations today in Sweden
From the Stopp ACTA wiki main page you can proceed to the Google protest map or to demonstrations in 19 European countries. The main anti-ACTA action day is 11 February 2012, but today I visit Sweden, where four protests have made it to the pages. In...
Piercing ACTA armour
We have looked at the growing protests online and on the ground against the Anti-Counterfeiting (and much more) Trade Agreement ACTA. The anti-ACTA feelings run high, but there is also a need for deliberation on the official policies of ever more dr...
Growing ACTA protest online and on the ground
By now, more than 1.526 million netizens have signed the Avaaz.org petition for the European Parliament to reject #ACTA. The call is also directed at the parliaments in the EU member states, where most of the governments are preparing ratification. P...
De Gucht merits ACTA rejection
We learn, although not from the website of Karel De Gucht, but from La Quadrature du Net, that the EU trade commissioner has written a letter to the members of the Committee on International Trade (INTA) in the European Parliament, accusing civil soc...
ACTA text in 22 languages - Soon a million protesting online
The Anti-Counterfeiting (and much else) Trade Agreement #ACTA is a hot subject on Twitter and the online public sphere in general. Different campaigns aim at defeating the treaty. A short while ago @Avaaz had reached 963,079 online signatures on a gl...
Information society, ACTA and copyright legislation
Here they are, in all their glory, the 22 language versions of ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. But, as we soon find out, the European Union and its Member States, Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Mexican Stat...
ACTA signatures and content
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan has published a note on the signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Mexican States, the...
A communication disaster called ACTA
During the negotiations of ACTA the participating states did their best to undermine public trust by secrecy and obstinate refusal to publish various documents (Techdirt). When the first batch of countries signed ACTA in October 2011, the EU Commissi...
Information society, online media and Bloggingportal.eu
What can you expect from a three year old? I decided to see if the new posts on Bloggingportal.eu are good for other people than those interested in how many EU institutions can dance on the head of a pin. Instead I opted for one or more policy area...
ACTA in European Parliament committees: Legal Affairs (JURI)
After the roundup of ACTA blog posts in Finnish, Swedish or English on Grahnlaw Suomi Finland, IPR trade protection: ACTA controversy, I have published two recent updates about the agreement in the European Union: Grahnlaw (EN): ACTA update (in par...
ACTA in European Parliament committees: International Trade and Development
Yesterday I offered some information about the state of ACTA in the institutions of the European Union: ACTA update (in part). Now for some complementary information. INTA The Committee on International Trade (INTA) is the responsible committee in t...
ACTA update (in part)
In October 2011 I wrote a blog post Greens challenge ACTA legality. The two proposals from the Commission (DG Trade) had been published in June. They are: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the signing, on behalf of the European Union of the Anti-Co...
Norway almost as deeply integrated in the EU as the UK
When we think about Norway and the European Union, Britain tends to surface. But what is Norway's EU relationship in reality? Media shortcut EurActiv alerted me to the publication of the study on future EU relations of Norway. The article presents th...
EU Council: Evaluating the Danish presidency programme
For friends of melodrama we suggest Public Service Europe's take on the Council of the European Union, but let us return to bumbling through the primary sources about the Danish presidency. Our roadmap is the programme presented by the government of...
EU Council presidency of Denmark in the media 2/2
Jon Worth's earlier as well as his two latest blog posts (here and here) about his press trip to Denmark and the launch of the Danish presidency of the Council of the European Union offer both his personal impressions and references to media. He has...
EU Council presidency of Denmark in the media 1/2
After a look at media reporting about the Danish presidency of the Council of the European Union, the euroblogger Jon Worth pronounced ”perhaps not stellar, but at least there is some online discussion about the Press Trip and the launch of the Pre...
