30 Nov
2013
30 Nov
'13
2:09 p.m.
Hi everyone,
You may have heard that wikileaks released a leak of the IP chapter of the
Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement.
This is an international trade agreement being negotiated in secret. There
are some very concerning proposals in the leak. Criminalisation of
copyright infringement, legal protections for DRM, ISP liability,
terminating internet access for copyright infringement, rules around
patentable subject matter and rigid restrictions around exceptions to
copyright.
Once it's in trade agreements it's really hard to go back on, trade
agreements often require signing up to a list of old ones. They stack on
top of each other and stick around for a really long time.
Choice have a petition to release the full text which I would strongly urge
you to sign and pass on:
https://choice.good.do/dont-trade-it-away/release-the-tpp-text/
Cheers,
Bianca
30 Nov
30 Nov
3:56 p.m.
Bianca Gibson wrote:
Well I substantially (some additions) agreed:
"Dear Minister,
I am concerned with the lack of transparency in the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) negotiations,
and am calling on the federal government to release the text.
I do not believe that the TPP should restrict an Australian Government’s
ability to make decisions
on public health, food labeling, energy and copyright; without prior
public discussion.
Politicians as representatives of consumers and the general public;
and bureaucrats as their servants; are thus not authorised to make decisions
in these matters prior to some wider publication of what is on the table
in the TPP.
Please bring us to the table and release the text to the TPP before it
is signed.
Yours sincerely, Rohan McLeod "
and signed up! regards Rohan McLeod
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