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<pre wrap="">[No transparency, no access, and for the pursuit of life liberty and copyright protection... so much for exceptionalism...]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/tpp-must-not-trade-away-free-speech-and-health-2012-09-06">http://amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/tpp-must-not-trade-away-free-speech-and-health-2012-09-06</a>
6 September 2012
TPP Must Not Trade Away Free Speech and Health
Negotiators from nine countries gathering outside Washington DC to draft a new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement must ensure that any new rules on copyright and patents adhere to core principles of transparency and uphold human rights, Amnesty International said today.
"No one has the right to trade away our hard-fought legal protections for free speech and the right to health, and much less to do it behind closed doors," said Suzanne Nossel, executive director for Amnesty International USA.
"It is time for TPP negotiators to show the public their cards and, more importantly, the draft text of the agreement."
This text has been kept a secret since negotiations began in 2007, but leaked information suggests that it would attempt to achieve some of the same objectives of the widely criticized Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement (ACTA).
Specifically, leaked TPP draft text neglects protections for fair use and standard judicial guarantees - such as the presumption of innocence - and includes copyright provisions that could compromise free speech on the internet and access to educational materials.
Moreover, draft TPP provisions related to patents for pharmaceuticals risk stifling the development and production of generic medicines, by strengthening and deepening monopoly protections.
"Access to life-saving medicines is a right, not a privilege, and the TPP must put people ahead of profits," Nossel said.
In 2007, negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership started between Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore. The United States joined the negotiations in 2008, with Canada and Mexico expected to join negotiations soon.
The TPP countries account for 27 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product.
The talks that start today in Leesburg, Virginia, hosted by the United States Trade Representative, are the 14th round of negotiations.
AI Index: PRE01/424/2012
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2012/09/10 11:41 AM, Salanieta T.
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<div
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Currently
the TPP negotiations, the 14th round is being held in Leesburg,
Virginia from September 6-15, 2012 .</div>
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<div
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Today
is the day allocated for those who have registered to take part
in the Stakeholders discussions. You had to register to
participate. You can visit: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ustr.gov/tpp" target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.ustr.gov/tpp</a> to
access highlights and overviews and actual FTAs. It has been
reported from other news sources that His Excellency B. Obama
wants to conclude the TPP by this year's end.</div>
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style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>
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style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">There
is an interesting article by Gordon Campbell, see: <a
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href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1209/S00040/gordon-campbell-on-apec-and-its-significance-for-tpp-talks.htm"
target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1209/S00040/gordon-campbell-on-apec-and-its-significance-for-tpp-talks.htm</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Riaz K
Tayob <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Thanks for this...
informative and very useful links...<br>
<br>
I was hoping that middle class America would realise that
ONE of the principle means that "good jobs" are lost is
through the internationalisation of intellectual property
rights... but Ihave no idea what passes for progressives or
how issues come to light in these societies so your take is
not only useful, but also puts forward some grounds for
common interests...<br>
<br>
It is a pity that more was not done to raise the issue of
conflation of domain names and trade marks... <br>
<br>
Just as a side issue, the close affiliation of govt and
telecoms companies also had a material/technological basis -
with fibre optics, govt needed to be at the telecom HQs (but
I may be wrong)... and with the Bush retrospective
legalisation - well that is about the worst thing in legal
terms... retrospectivity... <br>
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<div>On 2012/09/10 11:01 AM, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi Riaz,<br>
<br>
Why I think this is the case ?<br>
<br>
It takes a bit of revisiting some history to set the
scene. Who remembers, or has forgotten, the ATT-NSA
spying net story between 2002 and 2005 ?<br>
<br>
You can glance through:<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/presskit/ATT_onepager.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/presskit/ATT_onepager.pdf</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://cryptogon.com/?p=877" target="_blank">http://cryptogon.com/?p=877</a><br>
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In a nutshell, an ATT technician discovers in 2002
that the whole ATT backbone traffic (phone, voice,
data, web) is mirrored illegally to NSA. Once retired
in 2005 he talks to newspapers, and after much effort
gets an article in the NYT. EFF files a class action
lawsuit against ATT. The Bush admin moves to kill the
case, calling the State secret exception. Once Obama
elected the new admin legalizes retroactively NSA's
spying, and declares immune from prosecution all phone
companies involved in tapping.<br>
<br>
Ergo, Bush or Obama, same tricks. Whatever is illegal
becomes legal if the president says so. A first step
into dictatorship ?<br>
<br>
The US is no exception. Many governments have deployed
illegal and secret mass surveillance systems. Their
motivation is primarily controlling political
opponents. Their natural allies (and financial
donators) are marketing organisations eager to know
everything on everybody, i.e. controlling consumers.<br>
<br>
If admins need justifications with their parliament
(to get a budget) they conjure up terrorism,
pedophilia, child protection, obscenity, social
disorder, religion, IPR, what have you. It's the sort
of decor adequate for painting spying as a public
protection acceptable by the population or the
political opposition, if any.<br>
<br>
During the GW Bush admin the first three were the
excuse. Now those slogans have lost emotional drive.
IPR is the new excuse, supported by the republican
opposition and their media lobbies, working on more
drastic laws to protect their revenues. Since the
market is international the US has to coax other
countries to get on the bandwagon and adopt similar
legal provisions, .. thus similar control systems (a
bonanza for the US surveillance industry), and an easy
way for NSA to collect other countries data.<br>
<br>
Apparently this is part of what's going on under the
TPP umbrella. It should be easier for the US to
maneuver this limited coalition than the rest of the
world.<br>
<br>
Last July general Keith Alexander, NSA's head, became
Cyber Command's Commander. You can google his recent
declarations and interviews. He is dead set on
security (read spying). It seems DHS was not good
enough, as Cyber Command (read NSA) is now to
coordinate all US departments for securing ALL
networks (read domestic and abroad). Ok, he may have a
dream.<br>
<br>
All that leaves little else to be interpreted other
than a determination to build a worldwide mass
surveillance system centered in USA. IPR and other
opportunistic lures serve as negotiation jokers for
aggregating lobbies and other governments in the gang.<br>
<br>
It will be quite interesting to observe what approach
will be taken with China, India, Russia, and EU. ACTA
2012 won't be forgotten any time soon. New convincing
arguments for IPR will sound deja vu. The prospect of
US controlled mass surveillance will look as
attractive as a scarecrow. Then, what else US can
offer ? Probably rude arm twisting, a not unusual
tactic in real politics.<br>
<br>
I just read that EFF is up against TPP. Resistance
goes on.<br>
<br>
Cheers, Louis<br>
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More on the subject<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/SER_klein_decl.pdf"
target="_blank">http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/SER_klein_decl.pdf</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/SER_marcus_decl.pdf"
target="_blank">http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/SER_marcus_decl.pdf</a><br>
<font size="1"><i> The two previous documents were on
the web for several years, and have vanished
recently<br>
</i></font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying"
target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eff.org/nsa/faq" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/nsa/faq</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy"
target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</a><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy"
target="_blank">NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/one-us-corporations-role-_b_815281.html"
target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/one-us-corporations-role-_b_815281.html</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/obama-sides-wit/"
target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/obama-sides-wit/</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klein"
target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klein</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/07/AR2007110700006_pf.html"
target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/07/AR2007110700006_pf.html</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/05/70944"
target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/05/70944</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/05/kleininterview"
target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/05/kleininterview</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/"
target="_blank">http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.mainheadlinenews.com/video/qrBapXsLcro"
target="_blank">http://www.mainheadlinenews.com/video/qrBapXsLcro</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60204.html"
target="_blank">http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60204.html</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://osdir.com/ml/culture.war.guerrelec/2006-04/msg00040.html"
target="_blank">http://osdir.com/ml/culture.war.guerrelec/2006-04/msg00040.html</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.dailytech.com/ATT+Accidentally+Leaks+Incriminating+NSA+Info/article2558.htm"
target="_blank">http://www.dailytech.com/ATT+Accidentally+Leaks+Incriminating+NSA+Info/article2558.htm</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/Bush_administration_to_intervene_in_ATT_surveillance_case.asp"
target="_blank">http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/Bush_administration_to_intervene_in_ATT_surveillance_case.asp</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.infowars.com/att-whistleblower-spy-bill-creates-%E2%80%98infrastructure-for-a-police-state%E2%80%99/"
target="_blank">http://www.infowars.com/att-whistleblower-spy-bill-creates-%E2%80%98infrastructure-for-a-police-state%E2%80%99/</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=74c_1243652643&c=1"
target="_blank">http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=74c_1243652643&c=1</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/obama-doj-worse-than-bush"
target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/obama-doj-worse-than-bush</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/nsa-denies-wired/"
target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/nsa-denies-wired/</a><br>
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On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Riaz K Tayob <span
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do you think this is the case?
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On 2012/09/07 03:34 AM, Louis Pouzin (well)
wrote:<br>
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style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> But whatever
happens in November, the next USG is
unlikely to change policy on IPR. Watch out.<br>
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