[x-pubpol] Jim Burger on ACTA

[Joly MacFie]

A detailed article by lawyer Jim Burger analyses ACTA and notes its
shortcomings. Conclusion below..
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http://www.dvd-intelligence.com/display-article.php?article=1601

What started out with quite laudable goals – the prevention of actual
counterfeiting and commercial-scale copyright infringement – ACTA seemed to
balloon almost out of control.

Rather than focus on dangerous counterfeits, the Agreement appears to have
swung towards protecting entertainment content. As the former government
Department of Homeland Security official Stewart Baker said: “It seemed like
a sweetheart deal for a few intellectual property owners, who’d get free
government enforcement of their private rights, potentially to the detriment
of security and traditional customs enforcement. Worse, the sweetheart deal
would be written into international treaty, putting it beyond Congress’s
reach if the risks we foresaw actually came to pass.”

The hope is that the countries that do sign and implement ACTA do so with
the goals of ACTA foremost in mind: ‘to deal with large-scale intellectual
property infringements, which can frequently involve criminal elements and
pose a threat to public health and safety.’

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