ACTA : Resurrection

[Haggis_McMutton]

Well, in a completely unexpected turn of events ACTA isn't really dead: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6580/135/

Here's a dramatic reenactment of the events:

[BigBallinStalin]

The CETA IP chapter has already attracted attention due to EU pharmaceutical patent demands that could add billions to provincial health care costs,

Wait, what?

So, the lower price of health care in the EU is also related to the (lack of enforcement?) on IP laws regarding pharmaceuticals???

[natty dread]

oh snap

[natty dread]

http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/10/alarm-o ... premature/

[BigBallinStalin]

The leaked CETA documents – the live versions of which are still being negotiated, by the way – were written in February 2012, according to Geist. The reason they reiterate exactly what is written in ACTA is much easier explained by the documents being written before the street protests started: those documents were simply written in the assumption that ACTA was practically a done deal just needing rubberstamping, and so, the negotiators copied material from ACTA as a background for the new agreement.

Or in other words, if ACTA would or not would be passed, then what the hell, maybe something very similar would get passed via CETA.