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The Trouble with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
- SAIS Review of International Affairs
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 30, Number 2, Summer-Fall 2010
- pp. 137-147
- 10.1353/sais.2010.0017
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Since the United States, the European Union, Japan, Canada, and a handful of other countries announced their participation in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations in October 2007, the ACTA has been dogged by controversy. The negotiating process has operated largely below the public radar since its inception, yet each round of talks brings closer an agreement that could have a dramatic effect on laws worldwide.