Don't Let TPP Become the New ACTA
Mar 27, 2011 8:55:53 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Mar 27, 2011 8:55:53 GMT -5
Don't Let TPP Become the New ACTA: Contact Your Lawmakers and Demand Transparency!
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is a trade agreement currently being negotiated by the United States and eight other countries: New Zealand, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. Like previous U.S. free trade agreements, the TPP includes a chapter on Intellectual Property. Based on previous U.S. free trade agreements like the U.S.-Korea FTA, it is likely to export controversial parts of U.S. Copyright law like the DMCA’s ban on circumventing digital locks without any of the exceptions and limitations that have enabled technological innovation, user generated content and education, to flourish in the U.S.
Like ACTA, the TPP is being negotiated in secret, and on a fast timetable. TPP negotiators have announced that they want to finalize TPP by the summit meetings of the members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation on November 8-13, 2011 in Hawai’i.
And like ACTA, the TPP involves a coalition of willing countries working to create new global IP enforcement norms that are higher than the current international standards in the 1994 Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of IP. The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office reportedly tabled a draft Intellectual Property chapter at the last round of negotiations from 14-18 February in Santiago, Chile, which would require other countries to adopt heightened copyright protection for temporary and transient reproductions of digital copyrighted material. This is likely to create liability for Internet intermediaries who operate in countries outside the U.S., which in turn, will encourage Internet intermediaries to take drastic measures that will restrict citizens’ freedom of expression and privacy.
Read More: secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=471
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is a trade agreement currently being negotiated by the United States and eight other countries: New Zealand, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. Like previous U.S. free trade agreements, the TPP includes a chapter on Intellectual Property. Based on previous U.S. free trade agreements like the U.S.-Korea FTA, it is likely to export controversial parts of U.S. Copyright law like the DMCA’s ban on circumventing digital locks without any of the exceptions and limitations that have enabled technological innovation, user generated content and education, to flourish in the U.S.
Like ACTA, the TPP is being negotiated in secret, and on a fast timetable. TPP negotiators have announced that they want to finalize TPP by the summit meetings of the members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation on November 8-13, 2011 in Hawai’i.
And like ACTA, the TPP involves a coalition of willing countries working to create new global IP enforcement norms that are higher than the current international standards in the 1994 Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of IP. The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office reportedly tabled a draft Intellectual Property chapter at the last round of negotiations from 14-18 February in Santiago, Chile, which would require other countries to adopt heightened copyright protection for temporary and transient reproductions of digital copyrighted material. This is likely to create liability for Internet intermediaries who operate in countries outside the U.S., which in turn, will encourage Internet intermediaries to take drastic measures that will restrict citizens’ freedom of expression and privacy.
Read More: secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=471