Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2011
Journal Title
The WIPO Journal
ISSN
2041-2029
Abstract
Written for a special issue on the politics of intellectual property, this article examines the "country club" approach the negotiating parties of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) embraced to establish new and higher international intellectual property enforcement standards. It points out that the agreement is flawed not only because it is a country club agreement but also because it is a bad country club agreement.
The article then situates ACTA in the context of a recent trend of using bilateral, plurilateral and regional trade and investment agreements to circumvent the multilateral norm-setting process. It contends that this disturbing trend could upset the political dynamics in the current international intellectual property regime.
The article concludes with a discussion of the multiple layers of complex politics behind the ACTA negotiations: international, domestic and global. It focuses on developments both within the new intellectual property enforcement club and without.
First Page
1
Last Page
16
Num Pages
16
Volume Number
3
Issue Number
1
Publisher
World Intellectual Property Organization & Thomson Reuters
Editor
Peter K. Yu
Recommended Citation
Peter K. Yu,
ACTA and Its Complex Politics,
3
WIPO J.
1
(Peter K. Yu eds., 2011).
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