The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is currently being negotiated under the radar. See:

• Computerworld article: Privacy advocates marshal to fight copyright regime – Groups converge to oppose secretive ACTA treaty
• Wikileaks ACTA
• InternetNZ blog on ACTA
• InternetNZ submission on ACTA

There are some major concerns about existing rights being signed away. The InternetNZ submission also makes numerous excellent points about TPMs (Technological Protection Measures). The major risk is that the interests of major multinationals will be allowed to outweigh the interests of citizens in a secretive, anti-democratic process.

Resistance is building thankfully, including international support for an open letter:

Signatories of the letter include everyone from the EFF to the Australian National University to the Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic to Korea’s Christian Media Network to the Dutch Consumentenbond to Thailand’s Drug Study Group (DSG) to the Ecologist Collective from Guadalajara, México to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080916-100-groups-demand-to-see-secret-anticounterfeiting-treaty.html