Will they ever give up? How many times do we have to say 'no' before it is understood? Compare the two texts – the website does a good job helping you on that – with a few exceptions, it looks like a good candidate for what academics would call plagiarism. +Susanne Ramharter and +Moan Lisa, it looks like we have to cork the champagne bottle again, no more ACTA celebrations!
Reshared post from +chris vighagen
ACTA lever!
Fast under CETA namnet.Något av en katastrof för Europas medborgares förtroende i EU's parlamentariska process och för förtroendet i de förtroendevalda politikerna vars jobb är att representera sina väljare.
CETA ligger inte i någons bästa intresse förutom vissa få storföretag.
Michael Geist – ACTA Lives: How the EU & Canada Are Using CETA as Backdoor Mechanism To Revive ACTA
Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., acta ceta backdoor
From what I understand, it has been around for some time, but again has been negotiated in private. ACTA did also take a long time to negotiate. The similarity in the wording is startling, though.
As +Rick Falkvinge has pointed out, CETA has been around for some time, and is not somehow a 'new' iteration of ACTA. That said, it does contain many of the same sorts of problems.