It seems the TPP negotiators have not learnt much from ACTA's rout. Reactions after leaking their draft agreement are clear indicators that their secret agenda is bound to turn as broken as ACTA. US lobbies have been vying to impose a hard consensus to a small coalition of countries, and then snowballing it into a de facto dominant international order. Oops !<br>
<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/obama-trade-document-leak_n_1592593.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/obama-trade-document-leak_n_1592593.html</a><br><a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/blog/2012/06/13/newly-leaked-tpp-investment-chapter-contains-special-rights-for-corporations/">http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/blog/2012/06/13/newly-leaked-tpp-investment-chapter-contains-special-rights-for-corporations/</a><br>
<br>TPP draft<br><a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/tppinvestment.pdf">http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/tppinvestment.pdf</a><br>- - -<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Riaz K Tayob <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:riaz.tayob@gmail.com" target="_blank">riaz.tayob@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<pre>[No transparency, no access, and for the pursuit of life liberty and copyright protection... so much for exceptionalism...]
<a href="http://amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/tpp-must-not-trade-away-free-speech-and-health-2012-09-06" target="_blank">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>On 2012/09/10 11:41 AM, Salanieta T.
Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:<br>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">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-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">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 href="http://www.ustr.gov/tpp" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">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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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">There
is an interesting article by Gordon Campbell, see: <a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1209/S00040/gordon-campbell-on-apec-and-its-significance-for-tpp-talks.htm" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">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 href="mailto:riaz.tayob@gmail.com" target="_blank">riaz.tayob@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Thanks for this...
informative and very useful links...<br>
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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>
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It is a pity that more was not done to raise the issue of
conflation of domain names and trade marks... <br>
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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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Why I think this is the case ?<br>
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It takes a bit of revisiting some history to set the
scene. Who remembers, or has forgotten, the ATT-NSA
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