<font face="arial" size="2">Dear all,<br><br>I have been informed that there may be a problem with the Word document that was attached to the earlier email.<br><br>Accordingly, I am re-sending it as a PDF.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Christine<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: runnegar@isoc.org<br>Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 8:47pm<br>To: chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org<br>Subject: [Chapter-delegates] [Comments sought] - Draft ISOC statement on ACTA<br><br><font face="arial" size="2"><font face="arial" size="2"><font face="arial" size="2"><font face="arial" size="2">Dear colleagues,<br><br>We would like to
invite your comments on a proposed Internet Society statement on the
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Our intention is to submit
the statement to the Office of the United States Trade Representative
(USTR) public consultation which closes on 15 February 2011, and use the
statement to guide our engagement in other regions.<br><br>We will be collecting comments until 5 February 2011.<br><br><b>Background</b><br><br>Australia, Canada, the European Union and its 27 member states, Japan,
Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Switzerland
and the United States of America have negotiated a trade
agreement regarding counterfeiting and enforcement of intellectual
property rights, known as the <em>Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement</em>. The final version of the agreed text was released in December 2010.<br><br>In
2010, the Internet Society made two submissions on the then draft
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to public consultations held
in Europe and New Zealand. You will find these documents on our ACTA
web page at http://www.isoc.org/internet/issues/acta.shtml.<br><br>Later in the year, we invited your observations and views on the negotiated ACTA text that was released in October 2010, after the final round of negotiations. Subsequently, in December 2010, the negotiating governments released the final version of the ACTA text. A copy of this text is available at
http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/acta/index.html.<br><br>Many thanks to all those who have already contributed to the Internet Society's statements on this issue.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Christine <br><br>____________________<br><br>Christine Runnegar<br>Senior Manager Public Policy<br>Internet Society<br>www.isoc.org<br></font><span style="font-family: monospace;"></span></font></font>
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