Death by Copyright-IP Fascist Police State Acronym

Death by a thousand IP cuts¹

• IP – Intellectual “Property”
• RIAA – Recording Industry Assocation of America
• MPAA – Motion Picture Association of American
• USPTO – US Patent and Trademark Orifice
• EPC – European Patent Convention
• CAFC – Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (patent appeals)
• ICE – Immigrations, Customs and Enforcement
• ITC – International Trade Commission (blocks imports that infringe patents)
• UTSA – Uniform Trade Secrets Act
• NET – No Electronic Theft Act
• EEA – Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (trade secrets)
• CFAA – Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
• PATRIOT (IP aspects)
• DMCA -Digital Millenium Copyright Act
• OCILLA – Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (not to be confused with Sarah Palin’s home town, Wasilla)
• TDRA – Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006
• PCT – Patent Cooperation Treaty
• CTEA – Copyright Term Extension Act
• WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization
• GATT – General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
• WTO – World Trade Organization
• TRIPS – Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
• PRO-IP – Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008
• COICA – Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act
• NIPRCC – National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center
• IPEC – U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator
• ACTA – Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
• CETA – Canada-EU Trade Agreement
• SOPA – Stop Online Piracy Act
• PIPA – Protect IP Act
• IPPA – IP Attaché Act
• OPEN – Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act
• RWA – Research Works Act
• TPP – Trans-Pacific Partnership; and TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership)
• PCIP – Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011
• ITU²
• CISPA – Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act³

1. I list here only IP-related agencies/statutes/treaties, and only those with acronyms. For more info, including non-acronym statutes and treaties, see The Mountain of IP Legislation; SOPA is the Symptom, Copyright is the Disease: The SOPA wakeup call to ABOLISH COPYRIGHT. [↩]
2. See The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom  [↩]
3. update: see also Jeff Tucker, National Security and Your Digital Data  [↩]