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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Type Plurilateral agreement, status draft Drafted Official negotiation started in June 2008
(Finalized English text of the agreement ACTA participants finalized the English, French and Spanish versions of the ACTA text on April 15, 2011)Signed 1 October 2011 Location Tokyo Signatories United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea Parties negotiating parties: Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States Depositary Japan (proposed) Languages English, French and Spanish The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a proposed plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement.[1] It would establish an international legal framework for countries to join voluntarily,[2] and would create a governing body outside international institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) or the United Nations.[1][3] Negotiating countries have described it as a response "to the increase in global trade of counterfeit goods and pirated copyright protected works."[2] The scope of ACTA includes counterfeit goods, generic medicines and copyright infringement on the Internet.[4] Groups such as the [...]
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