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NORTH AMERICAN DIGITAL COPYRIGHT, REGIONAL GOVERNANCE, AND THE PERSISTENCE OF VARIATION1North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) • February 17th, 2017
In 1994, Canada, the United States, and Mexico implemented the North Amer- ican Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), designed to provide a framework for the gov- ernance of a North American economy. One of the most significant parts of the agreement was Chapter 17, dealing with intellectual property (IP) and designed to bring Mexican IP law into line with that of the United States —Canadian IP law was already substantially similar to that of the U.S. Referring to the copyright sec- tions of Chapter 17,2 Acheson and Maule (1996) describe the treaty as one step in the continuing harmonization of North American copyright law, itself embed- ded in a process of global harmonization spearheaded by the 1995 Agreement on the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
