The ACTA and the Plurilateral Enforcement Agenda : Genesis and Aftermath (Hardcover)

Part I. The Final Act: Its Main Features and Contents: 1. An overview of the agreement: contents and features Frederick Abbott; 2. ACTA initial provisions and general definitions Xavier Seuba; 3. ACTA general obligations with respect to enforcement Xavier Seuba; 4. Provisions on civil enforcement - Section 2 of ACTA Anselm Kamperman Sanders; 5. Legal framework for enforcement: border measures Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan; 6. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and beyond: towards a differentiated approach to criminal enforcement of intellectual property rights at the global level Christopher Geiger; 7. ACTA's digital chapter: remaining concerns and what can be done Rita Matulionyte; 8. The ACTA committee Peter Yu; Part II. Domestic Legislative Challenges: 9. ACTA's constitutional problem in the United States Sean Flynn; 10. Trick or treaty?: the Australian debate over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Matthew Rimmer; 11. A Brazilian perspective: res inter alios ACTA Denis Borges Barbosa; 12. Lessons to be drawn from the ACTA process: an African perspective Andrew Rens; Part III. Impact on Related Processes: 13. Three steps taken toward a reinterpreted three-step test: the impact of ACTA and SOPA on TPP Jonathan Band; 14. ACTA and the future of access to knowledge in the digital environment: US enforcement trends as a global predictor Annemarie Bridy; 15. ACTA, East African enforcement legislation and generic medicines - a comparison Christoph Spennemann; 16. The EU and its IP policies: ACTA and third countries Anselm Kampermann Sanders; Part IV. Views from Stakeholders: Lessons: 17. Lessons learned from the ACTA process: an industry perspective Candice Li; 18. Lessons learned from the ACTA process: the view of creators Adriana Moscoso; 19. ACTA, a view from the eye of the storm Marietje Schaake; 20. ACTA, EU, and economic, social, and cultural rights in the digital environment Ante Wessels; Part V. What Lies behind ACTA: 21. Assessing the implications of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement for the European Union: legitimate aim but wrong means Christophe Geiger; 22. ACTA: anatomy of a failed agreement Bryan Mercurio; 23. What was left out of ACTA Kimberlee Weatherall; 24. Slaying the ACTA myths Michael Geist; 25. Developing countries and ACTA: the anatomy of contestation Ahmed Abdel-Latif; 26. ACTA: what lessons for future plurilateral agreements? Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz and Ahmed Abdel-Latif.