All Documents Released Under FOIA
EFF and Public Knowledge filed suit on September 17, 2008 against the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), demanding information about a secret intellectual property enforcement treaty that the government has put on a fast track to completion.
- April 30, 2009 Supplemental Response Part 1[PDF, 424.64 KB]
- Supplemental Response Part 2[PDF, 602.13 KB]
- USTR Supplemental Reponse Cover Letter[PDF, 28.60 KB]
- January 16, 2009 DOJ Final Response - 12 pages of Assorted Documents[PDF, 729.73 KB]
- October 15, 2008
ACTA Update and Briefing on Industry Views, Agenda[PDF, 87.78 KB] Presentation by USTR's Stanford McCoy on ACTA. Presentations by Pfizer, Sony Music, MPAA.
- October 10, 2008 Program: Tour to Tokyo Customs[PDF, 48.94 KB]
- October 8, 2008
Tentative Agenda for ACTA meeting in Tokyo[PDF, 37.11 KB] Negotiation on criminal enforcement, civil enforcement
- September 22, 2008
Agenda for ACTA public meeting[PDF, 36.81 KB] Presentations by Stephen P. Jacobs, Deputy Assistant Sec for Market Access and Compliance, US Dept. of Commerce; Stanford McCoy, USTR
- July 14, 2008
ECPA's Position on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement[PDF, 435.26 KB] European Crop Protection Association. Manufacture, distribution and supply of plant protection products.
- July 8, 2008 G8 Declaration on the World Economy from G8 2008 Summit[PDF, 363.49 KB]
- June 10, 2008 2008 EU-US Summit Declaration[PDF, 1.18 MB]
- Transatlantic Economic Council Report to the EU-US Summit 2008[PDF, 1014.27 KB]
- June 2, 2008
Program of Conference organized by US Embassy in Paris entitled "Le Droit D'Auteur Et La Contrefacon Dans L'Economie Numerique"[PDF, 201.15 KB] Presentations by Janelly Fortou MEP [Rapporteur of 2004 IPRED1 Directive], Denis Olivennes [President of the French government's Olivennes Commission which recommended Three Strikes policy and Internet filtering, and Director General of major music rightsholder], Jean-Michel Jarre [musician] and Michael Shapiro [USPTO, sometime head of US delegation at WIPO] on Technical Measures of Protection and Comparison of Economic models".
- March 11, 2008
Program for ACTA meeting in Bern[PDF, 201.15 KB] Guided tour of Albert Einstein exposition at Historical Museum and Swiss Parliament.
- March 3, 2008
Agenda of meeting with BASCAP Global Leadership Group[PDF, 113.88 KB] Presentations to BASCAP GLG on ACTA by Ambassador Susan Schwab, on Consumer Education by WIPO's Michael Keplinger.
- December 18, 2007
Part of a news report from the International Herald Tribune "Traffic in fake drugs avoids detection in free-trade zones"[PDF, 306.55 KB] Article about Andrew Strempler, founder of Canadian online pharmacy, RxNort.
- November 13, 2007
Handwritten annotation: "ASEM (Asia-Europe) Customs Director-General/Commisioners Meeting Communique (Yokohama Declaration)[PDF, 103.88 KB] "Noted the proposal for a new international framework to strengthen IPR enforcment, 'ACTA (Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement)', and expressed hope that discussions might be accelerated for its materialization"; "agreed to support the Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy convened by the WCO, Interpol and WIPO for February 2008."; "agreed to participate in the discussion of the formal adoption of WCO's SECURE that promotes sharing of best practices in IPR enforcement, and to contribute to its capacity building activities."
- November 1, 2007
Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy Chairman's Report[PDF, 532.21 KB] 507 members, 402 businesses and 102 associations. References ACTA presentation by Stanford McCoy, USTRA, and Caroline Joiner of CACP Secretariat update on US Chamber of Commerc's initiative to engage intermediaries, including auction sites, search engines, ISPs, financial service providers and retailers in discourse with brand owners. Detection and Enforcement Task Force - developing plan to begin quarterly report of legal cases on these issues - coordinated by John Maltbie at Arnold Porter. Internet Task Force has developed best practices to reduce online counterfeiting and piracy. Draft docs being reviewed by search engines and auction sites. International Task Force met with USTR's Stan McCoy in October 2007 about opportunities for business community to support devlt of ACTA. Focusing on various fora including G8 and APEC. Legislative Task Force working with Congressional staff, expecting House to introduce IP Enforcement Bill in week of Nov 12, will contain many CACP recommendations.
- October 24, 2007 TransAtlantic Business Dialogue press release welcoming ACTA[PDF, 121.54 KB]
- October 23, 2007
AAFA Press Release Supporting ACTA[PDF, 119.42 KB] Kevin Burke, President and CEO of AAFA: footwear and apparel products represented 36% and 14% respectively of all seized counterfeit goods by US Customs in first half of 2007.
- AIPLA Press Release Supporting negotiaiton of ACTA[PDF, 117.57 KB]
- BSA Press Release applauding US Govt for launch of ACTA[PDF, 174.55 KB]
- CEA Press Release Applauding USTR's new International IP initiative[PDF, 136.29 KB] Sage Chandler statemetn - "unlawful commercial piracy"
- CropLife Press Release - CropLife supports ACTA[PDF, 112.67 KB]
- CropLife Press Release Supporting ACTA (2nd copy). Also National Association of Manufacturers News Alert/ Press Release on ACTA[PDF, 222.95 KB] Duplicate copy of CropLife Press Release - see doc. 11
- ESA Press Release applauds ACTA[PDF, 137.15 KB]
- European Commission Fact Sheet on ACTA[PDF, 370.09 KB] Also contains Pharma Press Release dated 23 Oct 2007 in support of New Agreement Designed to Enforce Anti-counterfeiting Laws
- IACC Press Release Applauding US Govt Proposal for ACTA[PDF, 184.30 KB] International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition
- ICC- BASCAP Press Release welcoming new Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement[PDF, 416.04 KB]
- IIPA Press Release applauding launch of ACTA negotiations[PDF, 181.74 KB]
- Microsoft statement applauding ACTA announcement[PDF, 37.11 KB]
- MPAA Press Release commending launch of ACTA negotiations[PDF, 143.25 KB]
- National Association of Manufacturers' Press Release on ACTA (Second copy)[PDF, 116.25 KB] Duplicate copy of document 19.
- Press Release - European Commission Seeks Mandate to Negotiate New International Anti-Counterfeiting Pact[PDF, 167.30 KB]
- Press Release from ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, RIAA, NMPA, AFM, AFTRA, Recording Academy supporting ACTA Negotiation Launch[PDF, 391.79 KB] "In addition, today's announcement furthers one of the goals contained in the important Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention which recognized that internet piracy should be a priority for law enforcement."
- TABD Press Release Welcoming ACTA (Second copy)[PDF, 122.43 KB] Duplicate copy of document 18.
- US Council for Intl Business Press Release welcoming ACTA[PDF, 179.10 KB] US affiliate of ICC, BASCAP, and BIAC at OECD.
- USTR News - Press Release announcing ACTA.[PDF, 252.67 KB] Slide 9: Progress of negotiations - June 2008 - Geneva meeting - discussed border measures, July 2008, DC - discussed civil remedies, preliminary measures, preservation of evidence, damages, legal fees, costs; Oct 2008 - Tokyo - crime enforcement. Set of Q&As - Will ACTA rewrite US law? (no). Will require searching laptops or music players? (no) (slide 18).Notes that past FTAs have called for ex officio authority for border enfct - i.e. w/o a complaint. "But this in no way requires searches of travelers' music players or computers." Also see slide 19 on harm to public and "provide an easy source of funding for organized crime."
- October 1, 2007
CACP powerpoint slides[PDF, 259.33 KB] Legilsation taskforce's work on submitting draft bill provisions to Senate Judy and House W& M; USTR Fact Sheet on ACTA dated Oct 2007.
- USTR Fact Sheet on ACTA[PDF, 118.61 KB]
- September 1, 2007
Bush Administration Strategy for Targeting Organized Crime - Accomplishments and Initiatives[PDF, 878.78 KB] STOP! Website - www.stopfakes.gov; DHS's ICE;trg and tech ass to foreign govt law officials; Lists work undertaken with various agencies (including APEC Model Rules - text missing), OECD (have commissioned study on impact of global counterfeiting and piracy; various country reports (much missing text).
- November 15, 2005
APEC Document 2005/AMM/002anx4rev1, Agenda Item: IV, VI.4 "Three Model Guidelines APEC Anti-counterfeiting and Piracy Initiative[PDF, 472.69 KB] Presented to 17th APEC ministerial meeting, 15-16 November 2005, Busan, Korea.
- October 17, 2003
APEC Dcoument 2003/AMM/025 Agenda Item: V.2 "Effective Practices for Regulations Related to Optical Disc Prodcution"[PDF, 684.56 KB] Submitted to APEC by US on behalf of APEC/ IPEG
- "APEC Model Guidelines to Secure Supply Chains Against Counterfeit and Pirated Goods" - Labelled as Appendix 6[PDF, 345.47 KB]
- Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights[PDF, 514.59 KB] Article 1, Articles 51-62
- APEC: "Model Guidelines to Prevent the Sale of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods over the Internet"[PDF, 149.99 KB]
- APEC: "Model Guidelines to Protect Against Unauthorized Copies"[PDF, 248.47 KB]
- G8 Gleneagles 2008 Statement: "Reducing IPR Piracy and Counterfeiting Through More Effective Enforcment"[PDF, 117.07 KB]
- Part of the enforcement provisions in US FTA IP chapter (other party not named)[PDF, 428.35 KB] Article 18.10.3-18.10.19.
- Part of the enforcement provisions in US FTA IP chapter (other party not named)[PDF, 216.07 KB] Article 18.10.19-18.10.25
- Part of the enforcement provisions in US FTA IP chapter (other party not named)[PDF, 290.81 KB]
- TRIPs Article 61[PDF, 52.52 KB]
