10 Jul, 2008: The fight Against Counterfeiting and Piracy in the Bilateral Trade Agreements of the EU (EU Parliament Briefing Paper)
By Duncan Matthews (Queens Mary University of London)

9 Jul, 2008: G8 Declaration on the World Economy
Read Text of GB Declaration on a World Economy and G8's Pledge to Increase Intellectual Property Rights and International Enforcement and to Deputize Customs Agents to Search and Seize Laptops, iPods, and PDA's of Unsuspected Citizens in Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

9 Jul, 2008: G8 Governments Want ACTA Finalised This Year, SPLT Talks Accelerated (IP-Watch)
Despite issues like the current food, energy and climate crises having taken centre stage at this week’s Group of 8 summit in Japan, governments did not lose sight of earlier plans to promote and more strictly protect intellectual property rights. ...

8 Jul, 2008: Vol. 1 Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) Public Comments (USTR)

8 Jul, 2008: Vol. 2 Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) Public Comments (USTR)

8 Jul, 2008: Vol. 3 Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) Public Comments (USTR)

8 Jul, 2008: Vol. 4 Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) Public Comments (USTR)

27 Jun, 2008: Member Nations Balk At World Customs Organization IP Enforcement Push IP-Watch)
Concerns ran high in some developing countries last week that their voices have been largely absent from a draft set of standards for heightened intellectual property enforcement advancing rapidly at the World Customs Organization. With the draft standards sent early - and, some say, without mandate - to decision-making bodies at the WCO, the organisation looks poised to become the ...

24 Jun, 2008: Seizing Laptops and Cameras Without Cause - A controversial customs practice creates a legal backlash (US News & World Report)
Returning from a vacation to Germany in February, freelance journalist Bill Hogan was selected for additional screening by customs officials at Dulles International Airport outside Washington. Agents searched his luggage, he said, "then they told me that they were impounding my laptop." Congressional investigators say that copies of drives are sometimes made, meaning customs could be duplicating corporate ...

5 Jun, 2008: USTR Press Release on ACTA Negotiations
Sean Spicer of USTR on ACTA: "The main focus of the discussion was border measures, particularly how to deal with large-scale intellectual property infringements, which can frequently involve criminal elements and pose a threat to public health and safety. ..."

31 May, 2008: Congress tries to get Israel off of US intellectual property blacklist (Jerusalem Post)
"The USTR said Israel is judged by different standards than others in its watch list tier which don't have as advanced economies. "Our expectations of those countries may not be as high as they are for Israel," said an official in the USTR, speaking on background. "We look at Israel relative to its very high level of development." ...

25 Mar, 2008: IP Justice White Paper on the Proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a treaty-making process to create a new global standard for intellectual property rights enforcement, the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). ACTA is spearheaded by the United States, the European Commission, Japan, and Switzerland -- those countries with the largest intellectual property industries. Other countries invited to participate in ...

25 Mar, 2008: IP Justice White Paper on the Proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
Anti-Consumer and Anti-Public Interest Treaty Proposed by Intellectual Property Industry, US, Europe, Switzerland, and Japan

21 Mar, 2008: ACTA’s Misguided Effort to Increase Govt Spying and Ratchet-Up IPR Enforcement at Public Expense
IP Justice Comments to the U.S.T.R. on the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). IP Justice firmly believes that ACTA’s costs to the public far outweigh any public benefit it might provide. The financial expense to tax-payers to fund ACTA would be enormous and steal scarce resources away from programs that deal with genuine public needs like providing education ...

15 Mar, 2008: USTR - Special 301 Public Submissions 2008
Industry submissions to the USTR regarding its Special 301 list to recommend trade sanctions against foreign countries....