The treaty, known as Acta, aims to establish international standards to enforce intellectual property rights.
Fujimori and Ecuadorian, Jamil Mahuad, signed the "Acta de Brasilia" which ended the conflict between Lima and Quito.
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Hopefully Germany goes all the way and refuses to sign ACTA, not just put the agreement on hold.
Over at Techdirt, Mike Masnick has some big news for the ongoing Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) debate.
International agreements like ACTA bind the hands of legislators unless the US is willing to withdraw from them first.
So will we see the internet community getting as angry about his case as it has about Sopa and Acta?
First Germany said that they were going to back off ratifying ACTA, following the position taken by Poland earlier.
Haqq-Misr for the journal Acta Astronautica examines a broad range of scenarios, many familiar to science-fiction buffs (see chart, below).
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Persons and colleagues Philip Currie and Mark Norell detailed their findings in Friday's issue of the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
Everything you can do legally today in the EU, you would be legally able to do if Acta is ratified.
That ties with findings from my recent conversation with Acta Wireless Venture Partner Matt Jacobson, who focuses on mobile commerce.
However they were accused by some of wanting to postpone the vote in the hope Acta would be passed further down the line.
Between SOPA, ACTA, The Megaupload shutdown and the massive Anonymous retaliatory attacks, two entrenched sides seem to be settling into a long, hard war.
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The Internet Defense League says it is targeting two upcoming pieces of legislation, ACTA and CISPA, which take different approaches to regulating pirated content.
The research is published in New Scientist and Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica.
Darrell Issa, a US congressman and vocal critic of the stalled Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa), voiced his concerns about Acta at the World Economics Forum in Davos.
Germany is likely withdrawing support for the agreement because of the explosion of grassroots opposition to ACTA across Europe, but especially in places like Poland and other poorer European nations.
Acta shares similarities with America's Stop Online Piracy Act, which US lawmakers set aside last week after Wikipedia and Google blacked out or partially obscured their websites for a day in protest.
Several MEPs from the centre-right EPP group criticised the European Parliament for holding a vote on Acta before the European Court of Justice deliver its ruling on the legality of the treaty.
The fate of Acta will be decided in a vote on Wednesday, as the treaty cannot become law in the EU unless it is approved by the European Parliament and all member states.
Once ACTA is adopted by wealthy countries, the US government is likely to make its adoption a factor in its Special 301 report, which lists countries Washington regards as having insufficiently strong copyright laws.
Previously, many had complained that ACTA was being ratified behind closed doors and without public involvement, but it seems like no country is going to be able to deal with the legislation out of the public eye any more.
Okay, things just got serious over ACTA. In our post on Latvia bailing on signing ACTA, we noted that in joining with Poland and the Czech Republic, these were still much smaller European states, and unlikely to have too much of an impact.
After the publication of a draft agreement following the 8th round of negotiations held in April 2010, in New Zealand, negotiating States of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ( ACTA) met in Lucerne from 28 June to 1 July 2010 for a 9th round of negotiations.
The internet may have been very quick to rest on its laurels after the successful opposition to SOPA. First there was the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, a highly restrictive, multi-national law that looked a lot like SOPA and covered everything from music downloads to crops.
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The latest problem, according to a new article in Acta Astronautica (we've really been meaning to renew our subscription), is that a space elevator would be so slow-moving (200 kph, or 124 mph) that the half-week spent in the Van Allen radiation belt would kill any living thing without proper shielding.
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Now it's Europe's turn, with demonstrations over the weekend against another piece of anti-piracy legislation Acta, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement. (By the way, there is a good explanation of all of the various anti-piracy measures here.) Now, for all the online anger, this is not an issue that has really caught the public imagination in the UK. The crowd at London's anti-Acta demo numbered no more than a few hundred.
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