Date: March 1, 2012 Creator: Ilias, Shayerah Description: The
proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a new
agreement for combating intellectual property rights (IPR)
infringement. The ACTA negotiation concluded in October 2010,
nearly three years after it began, and negotiating parties
released a final text of the agreement in May 2011. Negotiated
by the United States, Australia, Canada, the European Union and
its 27 member states, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New
Zealand, Singapore, and Switzerland, the ACTA is intended to
build on the IPR protection and enforcement obligations set
forth in the 1995 World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS
Agreement). Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Government
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