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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThanks to Kama Aina and to make sure this does not get lost in the grind of DU:
Wikileaks has what it presents as a copy of the final version of the TPP's provisions on copyright and patent law. I have not read the original, but Kama Aina posted on an excellent summary of the agreement.
This concerns your rights and my rights for example, with regard to internet use.
It is horrendous. If you don't understand what the fuss is about, try to find someone who does to explain it to you.
The TPP could set the progress of science, literature and humankind back and slow it to the detriment of the whole world.
I firmly believe in the rights of creative people including scientists to copyright, patent and enjoy the profits that are earned on their work. That is guaranteed in our Constitution by the very talented people who wrote it in that they gave to our Congress the right to enact laws protecting creators' rights to their work.
These paragraphs sum up the summary.
But we have struggled to come up with more than two positive points about the TPP, and even then the absence of these tragic mistakes is a pretty poor example of a positive point. If you look for provisions in the TPP that actually afford new benefits to users, rather than to large, rights-holding corporations, you will look in vain. The TPP is the archetype of an agreement that exists only for the benefit of the entitled, politically powerfully lobbyists who have pushed it through to completion over the last eight years.
There is nothing in here for users and innovators to support, and much for us to fearthe ratcheting up of the copyright term across the Pacific rim, the punitive sanctions for DRM circumvention, and the full frontal attack on hackers and journalists in the trade secrets provision, just to mention three. This latest leak has confirmed our greatest fearsand strengthened our resolve to kill this agreement for good once it reaches Congress.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared
I strongly support the right to copyrights and patents of reasonable duration, but a life in being (a lifetime) plus 70 years is far, far too long. I do not understand how any country could agree to that on behalf of its citizens.
A life in being plus 20 years is a long time.
MY QUESTION:
What are the names of all the people, who submitted information or took part in the negotiation of this dastardly treaty proposal?
I want their names. I want them to take responsibility for this monstrous document -- publicly.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Actually it was one of the most weaselly, mealy mouthed statements I've ever read.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)to the issues -- just about any issue.
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Bernie 2016.
Hillary 1992.