Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement facts for kids
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (or ACTA) is an international treaty that wants to make it easier to fight product piracy to protect intellectual property. This includes fighting counterfeits and copyright infringement, and imposing stricter regulations on generic drugs. ACTA is based on an earlier agreement called TRIPS.
Japan is the only country that has ratified this. European Union also has signed it but many people in Europe is against the Agreement because it can violate human rights especially the freedom of expression and privacy.
Images for kids
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Stakeholders' consultation meeting on 21 April 2009 at the Charlemagne building in Brussels
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Protests in Poland, January 2012
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Protests in Denmark, February 2012
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Poster used by the German Pirate Party
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Kader Arif, the European parliament's rapporteur for ACTA, who resigned in protest of ACTA on 26 January 2012
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(From left to right) Carl Schlyter, Christian Engström and Mikael Gustafsson, three Swedish Members of the European Parliament opposing ACTA, on an anti-ACTA demonstration in Stockholm, 4 February 2012
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Anti-ACTA demonstration in Tartu, Estonia. 11 February 2012
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See also
In Spanish: Acuerdo Comercial Antifalsificación para niños
