Consider the possibility that European human rights policy took seriously children's suffering – their exposure, for example, to the evils of physical abuse, poverty, inadequate or absent health care, life in homes where domestic abuse is a norm, rather than an exception, or being placed in refugee camps barely distinguishable from concentration camps.

I recently reorganised my feeds slightly and added some Wall Street Journal, but I don't know if I'm strong enough. Here, for instance: Western critics say China's practices are a form of mercantilism aimed at piling up wealth by manipulating trade.

That is capitalism. China is good at that.

"We did it without any funding, without any graduate students, without much of the usual apparatus that science is done with nowadays," insists biophysicist Roman Stocker in an interview with The Register on the results of his now publicly available research results on cat slurping.

In a speech by Neelie Kroes in Avignon the Commissioner for Information Society policy suggests that copyright is badly adapted to the digital environment, that convergence of media will bring much new creativity to the world and that audiences and artists are increasingly annoyed with intermediaries. She says (my emphasis)

A recent post on copyriot.se criticizes the balancing of copyright rights and privacy rights against one another, arguing that positioning two individual rights against one another is not necessarily fruitful.

Collective

Last week I was in Seoul, Republic of Korea. I had been invited by two representatives of the Korean NGO IPLeft to discuss and talk about the Pirate Party, our role in European governance and the possibilities or outlooks for an Asian Pirate Party movement along the lines of what we see in Europe.

I've always felt that a key point in understanding the European Union's bilateral relations with third world countries, is knowing the Bananas I-III conflicts at the WTO (World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Body). In essence, Ecuador and the US felt that the EU was discriminating their bananas by applying favourable terms for banana imports from former colonial areas. They were right, and the EU admitted, and afterwards 13 years of conflicts over the size of damages have ensued.

This post is structured accordingly for your convenience: (1) Introductory quote, (2) present patent law and implications for small and medium-sized enterprises with examples, (3) transferral of regulation from one part of the ACTA agreement to another and the potential effects on international arbitration regarding the agreement.

Ralph Bendrath from the European Parliament tweeted about latest briefings from the ACTA negotiations a couple of hours ago: