Exporting the DMCA through Free Trade Agreements
Authors: Andrew Christie, Sophie Waller, Kimberlee Weatheral Category: IP Law Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Published: December 11, 2007 ISBN: 9781841138015 Pages: 34 Language: English Tags: 408 | More DetailsExporting the DMCA through Free Trade Agreements
Andrew Christie, Sophie Waller and Kimberlee Weatheral
ISBN 9781841138015
Bloomsbury Publishing
SINCE THE NEGOTIATION of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) at the Uruguay round of the WTO in 1995, IP has been linked with trade negotiations. The US was one of the most influential countries in the negotiation of the TRIPS agreement, and has showed a continued interest in its linkage of IP with trade in the form of the IP Chapters it now includes in the free trade agreements (FTAs) that it negotiates. As will be discussed below, such IP Chapters are often based closely on the equivalent legislation in the US, and this is exemplified by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provisions which the US now routinely includes in its FTAs.
