[Chapter-delegates] TPP Rearing it's ugly head

[Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch]

Eric,

TPP is indeed an issue outside the US.

Like ACTA, dead or at least frozen in Mexico, its effects will be first on signatory countries but also later become a standard to which others will be held in different ways.

We are looking at the leaks in detail locally and encourage others, especially in affected countries, to do so. One important task is to look at the places where each of our governments has made changes or notes and act upon that striving for transparency and accountability.

Things are so that we can ask the government unit in charge to show us the presently valid text and they have an obligation to let us read it. But this happens physically in their offices, and you become bound by confidentiality obligations. Working from the leak has some well-known disadvantages but on the other hand leaves you with a lot of degrees of freedom.

I hope that we can coordinate analysis and messaging and also action. Glad to see that you have picked this up.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty




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Desde: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org [chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] en nombre de Eric Burger [eburger at standardstrack.com]
Enviado el: miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2013 15:23
Hasta: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org Chapter Delegates
Asunto: [Chapter-delegates] TPP Rearing it's ugly head

Because it is not just a U.S. issue:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/13/leaked-treaty-is-a-hollywood-wish-list-could-it-derail-obamas-trade-agenda/

See, e.g.:
[I]n other cases, the U.S. position appears to run counter to U.S. law. For example, Canada has proposed language protecting Internet service providers such as YouTube from liability if their customers use their service to distribute works that infringe copyright. American law has provided such liability protection since 1998, yet the Obama administration is listed as opposing a requirement that nations "shall limit the liability of, or the availability of remedies against, internet service providers."
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