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    Son Of ACTA (But Worse): Meet TPP, The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

    Apparently, the US government has already indicated that it will not allow any form of weakening of intellectual property law for any reason whatsoever in this agreement. In fact, the USTR has directly said that it will only allow for “harmonizing” intellectual property regulations “strictly upwards,” meaning greater protectionism. Given the mounds of evidence suggesting that over protection via such laws is damaging to the economy, this is immensely troubling, and once again shows how the USTR is making policy by ignoring data. This is scary.

    The Obama Administration has developed a policy on transparency for the TPP negotiations which apparently does not involve any commitments to sharing the text with the general public, even after it has been given to all member countries in the negotiation and to hundreds of corporate insiders on the USTR advisory board system.

    Deeeeelightful!

    (Source: maybejustified)

     

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      These bills just won’t stop, will they? At any rate we still need to smash ACTA and TPP too.
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      Oh, okay. Sorry for the misunderstanding. And thanks for the link!
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      Post about ACTA from as recently as yesterday (ETA: TUESDAY, sorry) stated that TPP is something we should definitely be...
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      The Obama Administration has developed a policy on transparency for the TPP negotiations which apparently does not...
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