The U.S. Trade Representative proposals for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
The U.S. Trade Representative proposals for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would impose “limitations on fundamental human rights” and must be opposed, public interest organizations said in a statement Wednesday in the lead-up to next week’s TPP negotiation in Leesburg, Va.…
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(http://bit.ly/PuTMzT). The statement’s 12 signatories include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Citizen and Public Knowledge. The statement is critical of the limitations and exceptions language contained in the document that “jeopardizes countries’ ability to set what best fit their needs.” Instead of the proposed language in the leaked version, the statement suggests considering the proposal from New Zealand, Malaysia, Chile, Vietnam and Brunei, which would allow countries “to tailor copyright exceptions and limitations to their domestic needs, and extend such limitations into the digital environment to create new exceptions as they find appropriate.” The statement urges TPP participants to resist such proposed limitations and push proposals that honor current international standards.