Inside U.S. Trade – Peru Minister Rejects U.S. IPR Proposal In TPP

Inside U.S. Trade reports that Peruvian Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism Jose Luis Silva rejects the U.S. proposal for intellectual property, saying “Peru does not want to go farther than what it has agreed in the area of intellectual property … in the free trade agreement with the United States… the United States is making a proposal to favor its companies, and the rest of the countries have the right to say ‘no’ because it harms the interests of their citizens.”   He said that the Peruvian position involves greater protection of traditional knowledge and genetic resources, and that most of the other countries negotiating the TPP are closer to Peru’s postion than the American one. Click here for the full story on insideustrade.com

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    Mike Palmedo is the admin for infojustice.org, and he manages interdisciplinary research on copyright exceptions at American University College of Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. He has Masters degrees Economics and in International Affairs, and is an economics PhD candidate.

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