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The Yes Men Crash the TPP Party

The Yes Men crashed the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations on Friday, awarding a fake 2012 Corporate Power Tool Award to the negotiators and distributing hundreds of rolls of TPP toilet paper.

May 14, 2012 — 1 comment — News

Chile Considers Pulling out of TPP Because of US IP Demands

Reports from Chile indicate that it is considering pulling out of the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations due to the U.S. demands on intellectual property.

May 11, 2012 — Comments are Disabled — News

The Trouble With ACTA: My Analysis of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

Earlier this year, I appeared at the European Parliament’s INTA Committee Workshop on ACTA where I reached the following conclusion: This report concludes that ACTA’s harm greatly exceeds its potential benefits. Given ACTA’s corrosive effect on transparency in international negotiations, the damage to international intellectual property institutions, the exclusion of […]

May 10, 2012 — 11 comments — Committees, News, Video

USTR Ambassador “Offended” By TPP Transparency Concerns

USTR Ambassador Ron Kirk has responded to a letter signed by dozens of legal academics (I signed on) expressing concern with the lack of transparency associated with the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations. Kirk says he is “strongly offended by the assertion that our process has been non-transparent and lacked public […]

May 10, 2012 — 3 comments — News

ACTA is Not Dead

EDRI has a strong editorial that points out that while ACTA is damaged in Europe, it is not dead yet. The editorial comes as Switzerland announces that it is delaying plans to sign ACTA.

May 10, 2012 — Comments are Disabled — News