<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Reminder. Already signaled by Michael Gurstein.<br><br><font size="4">Wikileaks’ Release Of TPP Chapter On IP Blows Open Secret Trade Negotiation</font><br><br>By William New, Intellectual Property Watch<br>
<br>For years, the United States and partner governments have worked vigorously to keep the publics they represent from knowing what they are negotiating behind closed doors in the top-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. But today’s Wikileaks release of the draft intellectual property chapter blew that up, confirming the fears of public interest groups that this is an agreement heavily weighted toward big industry interests.<br>
<br>“If instituted, the TPP’s IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons,” WikiLeaks’ Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange said in a release. “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”<br>
</div><div>. . .<br></div><div><br><a href="http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/11/13/wikileaks-release-of-tpp-chapter-on-ip-blows-open-secret-trade-negotiation/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts">http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/11/13/wikileaks-release-of-tpp-chapter-on-ip-blows-open-secret-trade-negotiation/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts</a><br>
<br><a href="https://wikileaks.org/tpp/pressrelease.html">https://wikileaks.org/tpp/pressrelease.html</a><br>- - -<br><br></div>Hopefully TTP will take SOPA's trail.<br><br></div>The next battlefield, <a href="http://www.euintheus.org/press-media/vice-president-viviane-reding-in-washington-spoke-about-the-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-and-data-protection/">TTIP</a>, shall put the EU Commission on a hot seat.<br>
<br></div>Louis<br><br><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div>