International Copyright Law
ACTA - Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Public Pre-decisional/Deliberative Draft: April 2010
Europarl - European Parliament
European Parliament: Draft Report on the impact of counterfeiting on international trade (June 28, 2008)
IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Licensing Principles for Electronic Resources (2001)
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
MAI - Multilateral Agreement on Investment
(A draft agreement negotiated between members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1995–1998)
Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) Homepage
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
Legal Opinion on National Reservations to the MAI by Barry Appleton LL.B, L.L.M, Appleton & Associates (1997).
Appleton & Associates, International lawyers based in Toronto and New York, offer legal answers to questions about Reservation Statements made by national governments on International Treaties, as well as specific answers to the question of how Canada's reservations to the MAI might be interpreted by an international tribunal. Focuses on Canada's concerns about the MAI's effect on Canadian healthcare, public education, childcare, social services, culture, and environment. Points out areas where the federal government's reservations are unclear, lacking, and/or their measures, in the form of country-specific "exceptions," fail to provide adequate government policy protection against certain MAI obligations.
UNESCO - United Nations, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Universal Copyright Convention as Revised at Paris on 24 July 1971
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Canada is a member of the Universal Copyright Convention.
WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organization
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Paris Act of July 24, 1971. As Amended on September 28, 1979. World Intellectual Property Organization. Canada is a member of the Berne Copyright Convention.
WIPO: Copyright and Related Rights
WIPO Copyright Treaty
World Intellectual Property Organization
WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
World Intellectual Property Organization
WTO/TRIPS - World Trade Organization/Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (WTO/TRIPS)
Is the WTO/TRIPS Agreement User-Friendly? ( 
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Final Report to the International Trade Treaties Committee of the Canadian Library Association. Prepared by Myra J. Tawfik January 30, 2005.
An Assessment of the Impact of the General Agreement on Trade and Services on Policy,
Programs and Law Concerning Public Sector Libraries - Steven Shrybman May 2001 ( 3.5 KB) Prepared for the CLA, CAUT, CARL, OLA, SLA, MLA, BCLA, LAA, NLC and Industry Canada
