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Why TPP is a Canadian digital policy failure
17-Nov-2015 The Tyee
The implications for digital policies such as copyright and privacy should command considerable attention. On those fronts, TPP appears to be a major failure.
Pacific trade deal could limit affordable drugs: world health chief
13-Nov-2015 Reuters
A massive trade pact between 12 Pacific rim countries could limit the availability of affordable medicines, the head of the World Health Organization said
Secret TPP text unveiled: it’s worse than we thought
6-Nov-2015 Public Citizen
Long-awaited text reveals gaps between Administration claims and actual TPP terms on key public concerns
Release of the full TPP text after five years of secrecy confirms threats to users’ rights
6-Nov-2015 Electronic Frontier Foundation
Some of the more dangerous threats to the public’s rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter
TPP text shows some impacts from community campaigns, but still favours corporate rights over citizens and communities
5-Nov-2015 AFTINET
Preliminary analysis of the thousands of pages of the main chapters of the TPP text show there are still devils in the detail on medicine monopolies, investor rights to sue governments and copyright monopolies.
Despite assurances to contrary, intellectual property covered asset for TPP ISDS mechanism
5-Nov-2015 KEI
Despite assurances from the contrary by Australia and USTR, intellectual property is a covered asset subject to Investor State Dispute Settlement
Will the Trans Pacific Partnership have an impact on Indian pharma industry?
4-Nov-2015 DNA India
Implications of the TPP on the Indian pharma industry might not be entirely clear yet. But there is a need for India to engage in the debate of trade deals and public interest.
What the Internet needs vs. What the TPP demands
3-Nov-2015 Open Media
Who should make the policies that will determine the future of the Internet? A select list of corporate lobbyists and unelected government officials, meeting without public oversight or involvement?
Why Internet users should be very angry about the TPP
3-Nov-2015 Open Media
The TPP is about a lot more than dairy and cars – it’s also about our fundamental right to free expression.
India must resist US pressure on generic drugs, African leaders to tell Modi
28-Oct-2015 The Wire
So far, the NDA government has been a mute spectator to the US pharma strategy of forcing Indian generics manufacturers to produce only what is required for Indian consumers and abandon the export of cheap drugs to Africa
USITC Report on India (#2) now available
28-Oct-2015 Don’t trade our lives away
The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) has published a report on IPR policy transparency by India’s new government
Internet transformed under TPP, advocates tell Trudeau
26-Oct-2015 The Tyee
Secret trade deal invites censorship? Leak suggests it, says digital rights group.
How trade agreements harm open access and open source
23-Oct-2015 Electronic Frontier Foundation
Open access isn’t explicitly covered in any of the secretive trade negotiations that are currently underway but that doesn’t mean that they won’t have a negative impact on those seeking to publish or use open access materials.
The problem with tying health care to trade
20-Oct-2015 Five Thirty Eight
Writing pharmaceutical regulations into international trade deals can have costly consequences.
What the Trans-Pacific Partnership means for the cost of drugs
15-Oct-2015 Rabble
A quick analysis of the leaked text shows there are good reasons to be concerned that the TPP’s generous IP protections could still prove a minefield for efforts to control drug costs in Canada
FACIL contre le Partenariat transpacifique et la Loi antiterroriste de 2015
14-Oct-2015 FACIL
FACIL tient à affirmer publiquement son opposition au PTP. La version finale du chapitre sur la propriété intellectuelle confirme les craintes des principaux organismes qui défendent les droits et les libertés des humains dans la société numérique.
Drugs row threatens health sector budget
14-Oct-2015 Daily Nation
Ahead of a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Modi and German Chancellor Merkel this week, European manufacturers had already protested India’s patents policy, arguing that it doesn’t protect sensitive technology.
Preliminary comments on the completed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) intellectual property chapter
10-Oct-2015 AFTINET
The TPP’s intellectual property chapter represents nothing less than a disaster for global health. Many harmful provisions still remain in the final chapter, bearing out the concerns of public health advocates.
The final leaked TPP text is all that we feared
10-Oct-2015 Electronic Frontier Fondation
The release of the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement.
TPP - intellectual property chapter (October 2015)
9-Oct-2015 Wikileaks
As leaked by Wikileaks