[ArsTechnica] Negotiators confirm ACTA not really a “counterfeiting” treaty

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[…] “[Devine] asked more than once how you could have an ‘IP Enforcement’ treaty and not include patents—and dismissed suggestions that ACTA was specifically an ‘Anti-Counterfeiting’ treaty rather than a broader enforcement treaty.” […]

[…] “There has been some pressure in Korea for the inclusion of ‘morality on the Internet’ provisions following a string a scandals in Korea involving celebrity suicides linked to gossipy Internet slander.

[…] turning a limited trade agreement on counterfeiting into a broad-based “IP Enforcement” treaty is worrisome enough, but such worries would be far eclipsed by any attempt to write vague pronouncements about “Internet morality” into the text. We don’t expect it to happen, and the Koreans did not indicate their own support for the idea.

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