Issues/TPP
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
Pirate Party Australia's basic critique of the proposed Agreement:
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
(including links to the previously leaked portions of the text etc)
Breaking! 14th Novemeber 2013: IP Chapter leaked by Wikileaks http://wikileaks.org/tpp/ PDF: http://wikileaks.org/tpp/static/pdf/Wikileaks-secret-TPP-treaty-IP-chapter.pdf Pirate Party Australia response: https://pirateparty.org.au/2013/11/14/trans-pacific-partnership-ip-chapter-leaked-enforcement-provisions-abound/
Introduction
Since 2010, negotiations have been taking place for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposal for a significantly expanded version of TPSEP. The TPP is a proposed free trade agreement under negotiation by (as of December 2012) Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam. Japan has expressed its desire to become a negotiating partner,[10] but not yet joined negotiations as the TPP became a major issue in Japan's 2012 election. South Korea was asked by the US to consider joining the TPP but declined for the time being.
The TPP is ostensibly intended to be a "high-standard" agreement specifically aimed at emerging trade issues in the 21st century. These ongoing negotiations have drawn criticism and protest from the public, advocacy groups, and elected officials, in part due to the secrecy of the negotiations, the expansive scope of the agreement, and a number of controversial clauses in drafts leaked to the public.from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership
More info
- https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
- http://keionline.org/tpp
- http://www.keionline.org/node/1825
- KEI analysis of Wikileaks leak of TPP IPR text, from August 30, 2013
- http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ict/events/tradetech/
- A number of lectures from Swinburne from a: "Trade and Technology: What does the Trans-Pacific Partnership mean for Australia?" event.
- http://www.msfaccess.org/spotlight-on/trans-pacific-partnership-agreement
- Médecins Sans Frontières on the Health Implications of TPP
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- Choice Petition - Let's bring the TPP out of the shadows
- Our Fair Deal campaign
Media Articles/Info Sources
| Article title | Source | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trans-Pacific Partnership IP Chapter Leaked: Enforcement Provisions Abound The overnight release of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement’s draft intellectual property chapter has exceeded Pirate Party Australia’s worst fears. |
Pirate Party Australia (Press Release) | Pirate Party Australia | 14 November 2013 |
| No fair, no share: Australia sells out...again EFA considers the leaked Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership to represent looming disaster for Australian citizens. Not only are the secret negotiations deplorable, as is Australia's almost total agreement with the US positions, but if passed, its provisions will severely restrict choice, increase prices, and reduce freedom of expression. |
EFA | Sean Rintel | 14 November 2013 |
| TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Negotiators Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms After years of secret trade negotiations over the future of intellectual property rights (and limits on those rights), the public gets a chance to looks at the results. For those of us who care about free speech and a balanced intellectual property system that encourages innovation, creativity, and access to knowledge, it’s not a pretty picture. |
EFF | Maira Sutton and Parker Higgins | 14 November 2013 |
| MSF responds to leak of Trans-Pacific Partnership text on Wikileaks The TPP currently includes some of the harshest provisions against access to medicines ever included in a trade agreement with developing countries, gutting public health safeguards and leaving them unable to take the steps needed to protect the lives and health of their people above the profit of multinational pharmaceutical companies. |
Médecins Sans Frontières | Médecins Sans Frontières | 14 November 2013 |
| Medicine prices could rise under Trans-Pacific Partnership deal Australians are likely to face price rises for their medicines in coming years if intellectual property proposals contained in the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement go ahead. |
Sydney Morning Herald | Julia Medew | 14 November 2013 |
| Australia backs the US at every turn against its own consumers In public the Australian government is on the side of consumers. Yet behind closed doors it is siding with the US government to block them turn after turn. |
Sydney Morning Herald | Peter Martin | 14 November 2013 |
| US wants to criminalise breaking region codes In public the Australian government is on the side of consumers. Yet behind closed doors it is siding with the US government to block them turn after turn. |
Sydney Morning Herald | Peter Martin | 14 November 2013 |
| Trade deal could be bitter medicine WikiLeaks has exposed details of secret trade negotiations that could leave Australians paying more for drugs and medicines, movies, computer games and software, and be placed under surveillance as part of a US-led crackdown on internet piracy. |
Sydney Morning Herald | Phillip Dorling | 14 November 2013 |
| TPP Uncovered: WikiLeaks releases draft of highly-secretive multi-national trade deal Details of a highly secretive, multi-national trade agreement long in works has been published by WikiLeaks, and critics say there will be major repercussions for much of the modern world if its approved in this incarnation. |
Russia Today | 13 November 2013 | |
| Wikileaks leaks SECRET copyright treaty: The Trans-Pacific Partnership DMCA robocops link arms with Monsanto triffids to take over the world in revealed docs. The text of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) isn't as bad as we thought. It's worse. |
The Register | Richard Chirgwin | 13 November 2013 |
| Dark cloud over privacy in TPP negotiations Journalists have been banned from a briefing about the TPP. Why the secrecy – and why can only wealthy lobbyists access the text? |
Australian Financial Review | James Hutchinson | 5 November 2013 |
| A Global Ban on Left-Wing Politics That’s what the new rules being smuggled into trade agreements are delivering. |
Monbiot | George Monbiot | 4 November 2013 |
| Why can't Australian citizens read the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement? Journalists have been banned from a briefing about the TPP. Why the secrecy – and why can only wealthy lobbyists access the text? |
Guardian (Comment is Free) | Brendan Molloy | 30 October 2013 |
| Abbott: Open For Business — And Multinational Lawsuits Labor rejected it outright. Even the Howard government issued America with a rare “no” over the legislation, declaring it contrary to national interests. But now the Abbott Coalition is flirting with a trade agreement that would allow companies, acting increasingly in secret, to sue Australia if they don’t like its regulations. |
The Global Mail | Mike Seccombe | 20 September 2013 |
| Transnational corporate power Audio |
ABC Radio National | 28 August 2013 | |
| Prominent politicians and negotiators in poor countries speak out against TPP Increasingly, the participating countries are growing nervous with the whole premise of TPP. |
Boing Boing | Cory Doctorow | 31 July 2013 |
| The Biggest Secret Trade Deal You've Never Heard Of, Explained The United States is nearing the end of negotiations on a massive free trade deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Here's what it's all about. |
Mother Jones | Erika Eichelberger | 10 July 2013 |
| Trans-Pacific Partnership: 11 Things Harper Doesn't Want To Reveal About Uber-Secretive Trade Pact Here are 11 things Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper almost certainly would rather you not know about the Trans-Pacific Partnership |
Huffington Post | Daniel Tencer | 26 June 2013 |
| I saw the secret trade deal U.S. House Rep. Alan Grayson, who rose to fame four years ago with his quip that the Republican health care plan amounts to hoping you “die quickly,” was recently allowed to see a draft copy of the TPP. While he’s been banned from divulging any details, the populist Florida Democrat described it in a recent blog post as an agreement that “hands the sovereignty of our country over to corporate interests.” |
Alan Grayson's Emails (Tumblr) | Alan Grayson | 18 June 2013 |
| Pirate Party Highlights Continued Opacity of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Witnesses at ongoing negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) in Singapore have reported that Disney has called for an increase in copyright terms, to the disdain of the unsurprised Pirate Party Australia. Like all previous rounds it is unclear exactly what is being negotiated, as the process is completely opaque. |
Pirate Party Australia (Press Release) | Pirate Party Australia | 7 March 2013 |
| Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Canada Creating Secret 'Insider Group' Of Lobbyists, Observers Say The Harper government is creating a secret “consultation group,” likely comprised of lobbyists, who are getting inside information about Canada’s participation in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, observers allege. |
Huffington Post | Daniel Tencer | 30 November 2012 |
| Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Contains ACTA-Like Provisions Stakeholders at a briefing held by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) last Friday were told that the upcoming regional agreement, Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), would contain some intellectual property provisions similar to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). |
Pirate Party Australia (Press Release) | Pirate Party Australia | 19 November 2012 |