Knowledge Ecology International has published a list of proposals which they say are “the substantive suggestions for provisions of the ACTA that the RIAA [Recording Industry Association of America] sent to the USTR [US Trade Representative] on...

Interesting comment from Michael Geist today on transparency and ACTA – making the argument that the failure to reveal text is far from normal in relation to plurilateral or multilateral agreements.

There was a recent news story about Coles changing the name of a product line of biscuits from “Creole Creams” as a response to criticisms that the name was racist. The more interesting aspect to the story — not commented on anywhere that I could find...

The Minister for Innovation has decided to ignore the Productivity Commission’s recommendations, and not to change the Australian regulatory regime for books introduced by the previous Labor government. In other words, publishers get to keep their...

A few more news stories on ACTA including one from the ABC. Perhaps more interesting (not for what it says, but how it says it) is DFAT’s latest update on the negotiations. First, there’s this: A variety of groups have shown their interest in getting...

Jamie Love on the Huffington Post here. EFF here. Howard Knopf here. Nic Suzor/Electronic Frontiers Australia here. New Zealand Herald here. Atlantic here. The IDG here. Intellectual Property Watch here. I would endorse the view expressed in the letter...