Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (or ACTA) is an international treaty that wants to make it easier to fight product piracy to protect intellectual property. This includes fighting counterfeits and copyright infringement, and imposing stricter regulations on generic drugs. ACTA is based on an earlier agreement called TRIPS.
Japan is the only country that has ratified this. European Union also has signed it but many people in Europe is against the Agreement because it can violate human rights especially the freedom of expression and privacy.
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Media
Stakeholders' consultation meeting on 21 April 2009 at the Charlemagne building in Brussels
Booklet criticizing the treaty
Protests in Poland, January 2012
Protests in Denmark, February 2012
Poster used by the German Pirate Party
Kader Arif, the European parliament's rapporteur for ACTA, who resigned in protest of ACTA on 26 January 2012
(From left to right) Carl Schlyter, Christian Engström and Mikael Gustafsson, three Swedish Members of the European Parliament opposing ACTA, on an anti-ACTA demonstration in Stockholm, 4 February 2012
Anti-ACTA demonstration in Tartu, Estonia. 11 February 2012
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