02.02.2012 - 01:19 [ boingboing ]

US trade rep and hotel caught lying about confidentiality of secret copyright treaty meeting in Hollywood

If you follow Boing Boing, you‘re probably passingly familiar with ACTA, the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a treaty negotiated in secret, comprising a kind of wishlist from the entertainment industry, pared down rather a lot after a series of leaks. The sequel to ACTA is TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, yet another secret copyright treaty with many of the same participants.