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-- the need for flexibility to address technological change;
-- anti-innovative and anti-competitive provisions;
-- the claim that stronger consumer protections aren't needed; and
-- universally binding top-down rules overriding national sovereignty.
On April 6, 2009, the USTR released a summary of ACTA negotiations stating they're to:
-- "negotiate a new state-of-the art agreement to combat counterfeiting and piracy;" and
-- help "governments around the world....more effectively combat the proliferation of counterfeit and pirated goods."
-- Also presented was a draft agenda for the November 4 - 6, 2009 Seoul, Korea negotiations to be followed by a press release similar to the post-July 5th Morocco round saying little more than "discussion focused on International Cooperation and Enforcement Practices and Institutional Issues" as well as others regarding "transparency."
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