Your life will some day end; ACTA will live on
By Nate Anderson
Last updated 3 days ago
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) isn't just another secret treaty—it's a way of life. If ACTA passes in anything like its current form, it will create an entirely new international secretariat to administer and extend the agreement.
反偽冒貿易協定（ACTA）不只是另一條秘密條約 - 生活的一種方式。如果ACTA以目前的形式通過任何部份，它將創建一個全新的國際秘書處來管理和擴展協議。
Knowledge Ecology International got its hands on more of the leaked ACTA text this week, including a chapter on "Institutional Arrangements" that has not leaked before. The chapter makes clear that ACTA will be far more than a standard trade agreement; it appears to be nothing less than an attempt to make a new international institution that will handle some of the duties of groups like the WTO and WIPO.
本週知識生態國際手上得到更多的洩漏ACTA文本，包括一章之前沒有洩露過的“機構性安排”，該章明確指出ACTA，將是遠遠超過標準的貿易協議。它似乎不亞於一項企圖，去做一個新的國際機構，它將處理一些組織的職責，如世界貿易組織(WTo)和世界知識產權組織(WIPO)。
Why bother? Well, from the perspective of countries like the US, the existing institutions have problems. For one, they feature a huge number of nations, some of whom have blocked some of the anti-counterfeiting provisions desired by the US and others. Call this the UN problem—getting much done with so many people in attendance can be tricky, and ACTA has become a "coalition of the willing" who have decided to go form their own club instead.
何必關心呢？好，從國家如美國的角度，現存的機構有問題。首先，它們對為數眾多的國家作為主要角色，它們其中一些已封鎖一些美國和其它國家所渴望的反偽規定，稱之為聯合國問題 - 讓這麼多人出席以完成的可能是非常棘手，和ACTA已成為一“自願聯盟”，它已決定去形成自己的俱樂部取而代之。
But WIPO, especially, has also opened up over the last decade, and now has robust rules for the participation of consumer groups and other non-governmental organizations. It also requires far more transparency, with the publication of proposals and draft texts throughout a negotiating process. As we have seen too clearly, ACTA has none of this.
但是知識產權組織，特別地，亦已在過去 10年開檔，和現在擁有健全的規則給消費者團體和其它非政府組織參與。它亦需要更多的透明度，出版整個談判進程的建議和文本草案，正如我們已非常清楚的看到，ACTA全沒有這。
Jamie Love of KEI claims that the US Trade Representative has already "told members of Congress it is their intention to marginalize the participation by consumer interest organizations in the new forum."
The new ACTA secretariat won't be a mere administrator. The leaked chapter makes clear that the new governing body will "make recommendations regarding the implementation of ACTA" and will itself "identify and monitor techniques of piracy and counterfeiting."
新的ACTA秘書處將不只是一個行政員；洩漏的那一章明確規定，新的管理機構將“作出推薦關於ACTA的執行”，並且它自己將“證明和監測盜版和假冒的技術。”
In other ACTA news, a separate chapter has also leaked, and in it the EU wants to make sure that criminal penalties exist for "cases of willful trademark counterfeiting and copyright or related rights piracy on a commercial scale." On a "commercial scale" doesn't mean that such infringement must be done for financial gain, however; it also includes "significant willful copyright or related rights infringements that have no direct or indirect motivation of financial gain."
在其它ACTA新聞，一分離的篇章也被洩漏，在內歐盟想確保，刑事處罰存在對付“案件如故意偽冒商標和版權，或相關的商業規模盜版權。”但是“商業規模”並不意味，這種侵權行為必須是為經濟利益。它也包括“顯着故意版權或相關侵權，有不直接或間接的經濟利益動機。”
Despite the public support of President Obama, ACTA is running into bad press throughout the world. The European Parliament last week even managed to pass a strong resolution of displeasure with the ACTA process, which passed 633-13.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/your-life-will-some-day-end-acta-will-live-on.ars
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