Most of us won’t care about it- yet, the US corporate sponsored TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) will soon inflict more misery on the world through an intricate, very secretive partnership between countries that is being pushed though their respective parliaments to become law. Essentially, the plan is to skirt domestic laws and courts and privately enforce the terms of a public treaty by directly challenging governments’ public interest policies before foreign tribunals to demand unlimited sums of taxpayer compensation. The premise for including such extreme extra-judicial enforcement procedures in past agreements has been that the domestic legal systems of developing country trade partners have not been sufficiently trustworthy. Japan is the latest country getting ready to sign up.
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Copyright Reforms [Essays]
Copyright & trademarks have immense impacts on the cost of our daily life regardless of where we live in the world – medicines, entertainment, food, you name it.. You probably haven’t even heard of the Trans Pacific Partnership, a negotiation between nations this is being done in secret, & is influenced more by corporations than by countries interested in protecting their citizens. A few weeks ago, Derek Khanna (@dkhanna11), a Republican staffer, authored a paper on Copyright reform, which was retracted almost immediately after pressure, ostensibly from the entertainment industry. The Way Forward on Copyright Reform is a thoughtful essay by Khanna & expected this post to be updated as others weigh in.
Jane Kelsey: Hollywood lays down its own law
Across the world, Hollywod helps create the same magic with legislation as it does with entertainment. The TPP (TransPacific Partnership) is a draft piece of legislation that currently is with the governments of 11 countries, all seemingly beside themselves, happy to oblige the authors of the legislation, with little or no public discussion about it. Here’s a critique by Jane Kelsey, who writes in the NZ Herald News that Hollywood lays down its own law.