Google Attorney Slams ACTA Copyright Treaty

An attorney for Google slammed a controversial intellectual property treaty on Friday, saying it has metastasised from a proposal to address border security and counterfeit goods to an international legal framework sweeping in copyright and the Internet. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, is something that has grown in the shadows, Gollum-like, without public scrutiny, Daphne Keller, a senior policy counsel in Mountain View, California, said at a conference at Stanford University