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March 12, 2011 04:05 am PST
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America fields "Son of ACTA" -- a new, sinister, secret copyright treaty
Knowledge Ecology International has published a leaked draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the latest secret, US-led treaty, this one targeting countries on the Pacific rim. The IP chapter of the agreement contains all the material that the US was forced to drop from ACTA, the last secret copyright treaty the States tried to sneak into the world. As with ACTA, the game plan for TPP will be to get a bunch of rich, powerful countries to sign on, and then use this as a benchmark for all treaties between those nations and the rest of the world. Here's some of Michael Geist's analysis: The U.S. plan is everything it wanted in ACTA but didn't get. For example, the digital lock rules are the U.S. DMCA, complete with exact same exceptions (no more, no less). The term of copyright matches the U.S. term of life of the author plus 70 years, beyond the Berne requirement and Canadian law. The ISP provisions including a copy of the U.S. notice-and-takedown system as well as provisions that go beyond U.S. law. In other words, the U.S. envisions using the TPP to export its copyright law to as many countries as possible while creating backdoor changes to its own domestic laws. Moreover, the chapter extends well beyond copyright, with patent provisions that would restrict countries' ability to restrict patentable subject matter. The complete Feb 10, 2011 text of the US proposal for the TPP IPR chapter Biggest-ever ACTA leak: secret copyright treaty dirty laundry ... New ACTA leak: It's a screwjob for the world's poor countries ... ACTA leak: Now we know who is against transparency - USA, Korea ... ACTA leak shows US Trade Rep lied about "3-strikes" Boing Boing EU secretly pushing to put kids in jail for sharing music: ACTA ... Wikileaks ACTA cables confirm it was a screwjob for the global ... Latest leaked draft of secret copyright treaty: US trying to cram ... ACTA leaks -- again - Boing Boing...
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