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Canada and Mexico Join TPP Negotiations

Today, Canada announced it has formally joined the TPP negotiations. (Press release). Yesterday, Mexico announced it had formally joined the TPP negotiations and will hold an intercessional on Nov 12-15. (Press release) Last week, Barbara Weisel, head of the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations for USTR, held a civil society briefing on the state of the […]

Unauthorized File Sharing: Is It Wrong?

We’re kicking off our Copy Culture in the US and Germany pre-release festivities with a fresh(ish) look at an old question: is unauthorized file sharing wrong? Or more properly: do Americans think it’s wrong? Author Joe Karaganis

MEPs must be ready to reject an ACTA-like Canada/EU Trade Agreement

[Originally posted on laquadrature.net by Jeremie Zimmerman (CC-BY-SA)] Ahead of the next round of negotiations of CETA, the Canada/EU Trade Agreement[1], La Quadrature du Net publishes its dedicated web-dossier. The citizen organization urges the Members of the European Parliament to demand full transparency and be ready to reject CETA as they did with ACTA, if […]

Infojustice Roundup – October 9, 2012

Mexico and Canada Formally Join TPP Negotiations Today, Canada announced it has formally joined the TPP negotiations. Yesterday, Mexico issued a press release announcing it had formally joined the TPP negotiations and will hold an intercessional on Nov 12-15. Last week, Barbara Weisel, head of the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations for USTR, held a civil […]

USTR Briefing on TPP: Canada and Mexico Formally Join Negotiations Next Week; IPR Progress Slow in Leesburg

UPDATE: On Monday, Oct 8, Mexico announced that it had formally joined the TPP negotiatios, and that it will host an intersessional meeting in November. [Press Release] Today Barbara Weisel, head of the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations for USTR, held a civil society briefing on the state of the negotiations. She announced that Canada and […]

Sign On Letter to the President of Panama Regarding Bill no. 510

[originally posted on the Access blog by Perter Micek under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-NY)] The Panamanian Congress recently passed a dangerous copyright bill, and it is one step away from becoming law. That’s why civil society organizations from around the world have rallied to urge President Ricardo Martinelli to reject the legislation, send […]