The Maine House of Representatives unanimously resolved to demand that President Obama increase transparency and public participation in the increasingly controversial Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations. The resolution explains its concerns as arising from the shift of trade agreements…
The next round of Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations on intellectual property issues are slated to be negotiated in an “intersessional” meeting April 9-13 in Santiago, Chile, several sources in Chile have confirmed. The Santiago round will be focused on…
ACTA’s biggest EU proponent, Karel De Gucht, the European Commissioner driving ACTA, is now admitting that the agreement may be doomed in Europe. Techdirt reports minutes from a recent Commission meeting in which De Gucht was paraphrased as saying: “that…
Contrasting with apparent progress on some other chapters, which were declared “on track” by negotiators, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement’s intellectual property chapter appears to have stalled in Melbourne. According to some sources, the 10 day negotiation yielded no meaningful progress…
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. Negotiations of the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) have turned to discussions of the pharmaceutical reimbursement chapter today. This issue is highly controversial and represents a very recent shift in trade policy. There are only two previous free trade…
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. At this week’s Melbourne round of TPP negotiations, the Computers and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) — representing tech companies like Google, Facebook, E-Bay and Yahoo — has been circulating a new proposal for adding copyright limitations and exceptions…
[Enclosed are my comments at the TPP stakeholder forum in Melbourne, Australia, March 4, 2012. You may also see my Presentation Slides: What ACTA should learn from TPP and listen via Audio File TPP Presentation March 4 2012] I want…
On Friday March 2 (Australian time), the Australian Digital Alliance, NZRise, Knowledge Ecology International, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Internet NZ and New Zealand Computer Society hosted a briefing for negotiators on the TPP IP chapter and internet policy. These…
Good morning. Thank you for having me. I continue to believe that having a public hearing as part of the 301 process is important. My comments today will be in the vein of continuing the trend toward making this a…
Public interest advocates and analysts have long been critical of the “maximalist” intellectual property agenda of some wealthy countries. But there is also a counter-current in the public interest community that is advocating for new positive norms to promote precisely…
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…
The European Union Signed ACTA today – months after withholding its signature at the official signing ceremony in Japan. But the political atmosphere in the EU remains very much in flux. The key to the future is that, unlike the…