Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-04-Speech-3-305-750"
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"I rejected ACTA because I believed that the advantages of the agreement were far outweighed by potential threats to civil and individual liberties that it contained. I had problems with ACTA in relation to both the substantive matter and procedural issues. ACTA deals with both physical goods, like Manchester United strips, and virtual goods, like digital music. I think that an instrument that deals with both physical goods and virtual goods is too broad to effectively tackle the issue of counterfeit. ACTA in its current format is like taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Procedurally, the European Commission dealt with ACTA badly. As a parliament, we could have raised these issues with the Commission had we been consulted. Unfortunately we weren’t given this chance. With regard to intellectual property rights, I have huge sympathy with the artists and their representative bodies, who are very concerned about online piracy. I believe that the European Commission should now seek to draw up legislation related to intellectual property because I believe that for Europe to remain competitive it has to protect its intellectual capital. But I think that ACTA was the wrong way to go about doing that."@en1
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