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On January 30 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and the non-profit advocacy organization Knowledge Ecology International sponsored an event discussing public interest concerns with the closed door negotiation of an intellectual property chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.

The webcast for the event is now available at http://infojustice.org/tppbriefing |

Agenda and Supporting Documentation

Introduction

• Sean Flynn, Associate Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law

Copyright and the Internet

• Krista Cox, Staff Attorney, Knowledge Ecology International. Statement of KEI on the TPP

• Jonathan Band, intellectual property attorney in Washington, D.C. whose clients include the Computer & Communications Industry Association.  Handout: SOPA and Its Implications for TPP | CCIA Press Release: Study Shows Growing Entertainment Choices, Industry Profits

• Matt Zimmerman, Electronic Frontier Foundation.  Presentation: Freedom of Expression, Privacy, and the TPP

• David Fewer, Director, Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, University of Ottawa.  Presentation: Canada and the TPP

Access to Medicines and Development

• Judit Rius, US Manager of the Access Campaign of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Background: Access to Lifesaving Generic Medicines Threatened by US Trade Pact | MSF Press release | MSF Briefing paper | MSF Op-ed

• Peter Maybarduk, Director, Access to Medicines Campaign, Public Citizen.  Brief: Obama Administration Backtracking from Bush Era Access to Medicines Commitments | Spanish Version]

• Matt Kavanagh, Health GAP. Presentation: Deadly decisions for People living with HIV

• Ellen Shaffer, Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health. Presentation: Tobacco Industry Expropriates Intellectual Property Rules. | Handout: Testimony to House Ways and Means Committee