Consumers International, an independent global campaigning voice for consumers has published its fourth annual IP Watchlist. CI looks towards a future in which creators and consumers support each other in a mutually beneficial ecosystem of content production, consumption and reuse. The report also states that the recent discontent caused by ACTA and SOPA could have been avoided if government policy-makers and their allies had paid more attention to the legitimate needs of consumers for access to knowledge.
Read the full report here – http://a2knetwork.org/sites/default/files/IPWatchlist-2012-ENG.pdf