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TPP: Some of the problems

 
 
 
One should have access to primary sources whenever possible so one can conduct ones own research and analysis, methinks.

In that spirit I present TPP Treaty: Intellectual Property Rights Chapter - 5 October 2015 PDF Document https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter-051015.pdf

Take into account the preface. The document requires several scrubs prior to release, including legal and international concurrence.

Personal opinion: my reading didn't reveal any ogres or boogie men. Looks pretty standard. Recommendations are pretty subject to individual national law rather than a threat to override existing law.

Of course there are different boogie men for each of us. But, enjoy.
 
fromderinside said:
One should have access to primary sources whenever possible so one can conduct ones own research and analysis, methinks.

In that spirit I present TPP Treaty: Intellectual Property Rights Chapter - 5 October 2015 PDF Document https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter-051015.pdf

Take into account the preface. The document requires several scrubs prior to release, including legal and international concurrence.

Personal opinion: my reading didn't reveal any ogres or boogie men. Looks pretty standard. Recommendations are pretty subject to individual national law rather than a threat to override existing law.

Of course there are different boogie men for each of us. But, enjoy.
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treaty said:
Article QQ.G.10: {Technological Protection Measures}

In order to provide adequate legal protection and effective legal remedies
against the circumvention of effective technological measures that authors,
performers, and producers of phonograms use in connection with the
exercise of their rights and that restrict unauthorized acts in respect of their
works, performances, and phonograms, each Party shall provide that any
person who:
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In other words, the DMCA. It's vile enough as it is, embedding it into a treaty will make it even harder to get rid of.

treaty said:
Article QQ.G.13: {Rights Management Information}

In order to provide adequate and effective legal remedies to protect rights management
information102:
(a) each Party shall provide that any person who without authority, and
knowing, or having reasonable grounds to know, that it would induce,
enable, facilitate, or conceal an infringement of the copyright or related right
of authors, performers, or producers of phonograms:
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And it prohibits removing the DRM from the stuff you legally own in order to view it on some other device.
 
Loren Pechtel said:
More problems:

http://keionline.org/node/2363

No requirements to release source code--in other words, you can't check if it actually does what it's supposed to do.
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I like how the linked article knocks MS without any real basis for doing so.

http://www.wired.com/2012/04/microsoft-and-linux/
https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet
https://azure.github.io/guidelines.html

And what is the definition of a Party in the context of TPP. Does it mean a governmental agency?
 
One of the main problems is that it aims to short circuit environmental and consumer protection laws with an agreement between corporate entities acting as nations. Our law makers are just getting their first whiff of this thing, so we know it was NOT OUR GOVERNMENT that negotiated it. It was appointed corporate spokesmen. TPP will cost jobs, cause pollution, and raise the price of about anything and everything with so called intellectual property suits. This craziness needs to be put out of its misery...or we will need to be put out of ours.:thinking:
 
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