FW: [governance] TPP Negotiations, Process Becomes Even Less Transparent

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FW: [governance] TPP Negotiations, Process Becomes Even Less Transparent

michael gurstein

Canada has just been included in this process… Canada Formally Joins Trans-Pacific Partnership

 

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From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Louis Pouzin (well)
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 7:15 PM
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Subject: [governance] TPP Negotiations, Process Becomes Even Less Transparent

 

The dark face of "internet freedom"

Quote from EFF

The 15th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement negotiations in New Zealand concluded this week, locking out civil society participation in an unprecedented way. The TPP is a trade agreement between eleven Pacific nations and it covers a wide range of regulatory issues including transnational investment, services, tobacco, and textiles. The chapter that EFF and other digital rights groups around the world find alarming covers intellectual property. EFF is also looking into issues of free flow of information and cross-over issues that may appear in the ecommerce and service chapters...

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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/digital-rights-advocates-mobilize-around-tpp-negotiations-process-become-even-less