Wikileaks Publishes Leaked Draft of Secretive International Agreement TPP Olivia Solon - Wired UK
go to original November 16, 2013

What is the TPP? (InternetAnon)

Download the full secret TPP treaty IP chapter as a PDF here

Wikileaks has released a draft document outlining the secretive multinational trade agreement - like Acta - called the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Like Acta, the agreement aims to extend intellectual property laws across the world and involves 11 nations: the US, Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Mexico and Brunei. Until now the partnership has been shrouded in secrecy - no draft has been officially released to the public.

So far, access to drafts of the chapters of TPP has been behind closed doors. US politicians have been able to view selected portions of the treaty documents under supervision. Only three people in each of the countries involved in the agreement have access to the full text.

The overall objective of the treaty is nominally to enhance the role of intellectual property in promoting economic and social development. It purports to do this by stricter enforcement of intellectual property rights. It is supported by more than 600 corporate lobbyists, including Nike, General Motors, Pfizer and Walmart, who have been granted access and input to the texts.

Critics are concerned that TPP is an elitist agreement of corporate governance issued under the guise of being a trade agreement. The agreement appears to give major corporations new rights and privileges, while making it harder for nation states to oppose them.

If TPP passes, it is feared it will export some of the worst aspects of US copyright law to a wide range of countries - the USA tends to enforce its business interest laws relating to patent and copyright terms onto other parties involved in "free trade" agreements.

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