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Losing access to generic drugs may be a bitter pill to swallow
3-Sep-2015 New Straits Times
The pharmaceutical industry, with worldwide sales of more than US$980 billion in 2013, stood to be one of the biggest winners under TPP. The developing countries would lose out. The United States and Canada looked set to win big.
Opposition mounts against regional trade pact threatening human rights
1-Sep-2015 Third World Network
Less well known than the notorious Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is engendering growing opposition because of its similar oppressive provisions.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: copyright law, the creative industries, and Internet freedom
26-Aug-2015 Medium
A number of chapters of the TPP will affect the creative artists, cultural industries and internet freedom — including intellectual property, investment, and electronic commerce.
MSF statement on RCEP trade negotiations in Kuala Lumpur
24-Aug-2015 MSF
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for the removal of damaging intellectual property provisions in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) that would risk locking in high drug prices.
Five reasons why TPP countries should unite to oppose the US pharmaceutical IP agenda
19-Aug-2015 Intellectual Property Watch
Failure to reach agreement over expanded intellectual property (IP) protections for medicines has proven to be a stumbling block to completion of the 12-country Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations.
Will Hollywood’s whining thwart better TPP copyright rules?
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.
How Canada caved to US pressure at TPP talks in Hawaii
18-Aug-2015 The Tyee
Negotiators dropped patent and copyright demands but failed to garner agreement.
Japanese fan comics could die under new trade deal
13-Aug-2015 Kotaku
While Japan has strict copyright laws, self-published comics tend to get a free pass and flourish. A new trade agreement could change that forever.
KEI briefing note on the evolution of TPP negotiating text on patentable subject matter
12-Aug-2015 KEI
The KEI briefing note underlines the evolution of certain sections of the TPP negotiating text on patents and patentable subject matter.
NZ IT industry mobilises to fight TPP software patent threat
12-Aug-2015 ZDNet
The Institute of IT Professionals joins the NZ Open Source Society in questioning TPP deal on software patents.
Why TPP threatens to undermine one of the fundamental principles of science
11-Aug-2015 Tech Dirt
Data exclusivity is a kind of super-patent that is an incredibly powerful form of monopoly.
Canadian filmmaker fears for creative freedom under the TPP
10-Aug-2015 Electronic Frontier Fondation
The Trans-Pacific Partnership leans towards rules that lock up works of art and stifle independent creators’ output
TPP - draft IP chapter (May 2015)
5-Aug-2015 KEI
As leaked by KEI on 4 August 2015
Knowledge Ecology International leaks TPP text on intellectual property
4-Aug-2015 Knowledge Ecology International
Knowledge Ecology International released text from three sections of the 95-page secret negotiating text on the Intellectual Property Chapter being used in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement trade negotiations
RCEP - draft IP text from ASEAN (Oct 2014)
4-Aug-2015 KEI
As published by KEI
RCEP - draft IP text from India (Oct 2014)
4-Aug-2015 KEI
As published by KEI
​Open source leader ’livid’ at TPPA software patent capitulation
31-Jul-2015 ZDNET
Negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement appear likely to undo New Zealand’s ban on software patents, showing "how disconnected the government and the negotiators are from the interests of New Zealanders."
TPP: Key admits medicine costs will rise
31-Jul-2015 Radio New Zealand
Prime Minister John Key has conceded New Zealand will have to pay more for some medicines under the Trans-Pacific Partnership but he says it is in the country’s best interests
CAFTA’s 10th anniversary spotlights TPP’s threat to affordable life-saving drugs
31-Jul-2015 The Hill
Ten years ago today, in the dead of night, Congress passed the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement by two votes. Lessons learned from the actual effects of CAFTA on access to affordable life-saving prescription drugs provide a vivid illustration of the impact of TPP-like rules on people and their health.
UNAIDS calls on trade negotiators to uphold governments’ commitments to public health and access to medicines
28-Jul-2015 UNAIDS
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement reportedly contains provisions that would lead to higher drug prices, not just in the TPPA but in future trade agreements as well, UNAIDS warns.