4-Feb-2016
Electronic Frontier Foundation
While trade leaders tout the signature of the agreement today, the TPP continues to attract international criticism.
9-Dec-2015
Electronic Frontier Foundation
By excluding a large sector of communities—like security researchers, artists, libraries, and user rights groups—trade negotiators skewed the priorities of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) towards major tech companies and copyright industries.
19-Nov-2015
The Japan Times
The Cultural Affairs Agency is considering revising the copyright laws after Japan and 11 other countries agreed to strengthen protection of intellectual property rights as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
9-Sep-2015
Electronic Frontier Fondation
No matter how far advanced the parties are towards agreeing on repressive copyright rules, it is still not too late for them to turn back.
2-Sep-2015
The Japan Times
A Japanese artist takes aim at society’s assumptions about commerce and culture using works rooted in intensive research. This time, her target is the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
19-Aug-2015
Electronic Frontier Fondation
Hollywood groups are behaving like spoiled children: if they don’t get exactly what they want, they’ll whine to policymakers until they do.
10-Aug-2015
Electronic Frontier Fondation
The Trans-Pacific Partnership leans towards rules that lock up works of art and stifle independent creators’ output
3-Jun-2015
Ars Technica UK
The German federal government has admitted that an EU country’s arts policies could lead to it being sued by foreign corporations before investor tribunals under trade agreements being negotiated with Canada and the US.
28-Nov-2007
Asia Sentinel
Malaysia’s racial policies look as though they could become an international issue rather than a purely domestic one. A Free Trade Agreement with the US is stalled partly on the issue of racial preferences. And if the much vaunted ASEAN Free Trade Area is to allow free movement of capital and skilled labor, Malays cannot be shielded from competition with ASEAN’s 400 million people.