The ACTA treaty is secret for "national security"
James Love reports
on the latest attempt to get the text of the proposed ACTA treaty from the US
government. "
The agreement, misleadingly named the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, is thought to cover a wide range of intellectual property enforcement issues -- including standards for granting injunctions for alleged infringement of patents or copyrights, damages, seizures of goods in transit, surveillance of Internet digital file transfers, searches of personal property, and a dozen other topics." The answer: the treaty, despite being available to governments and lobbyists, is classified for "national security" reasons and we cannot see it. "Change," it seems, only goes so far.