Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) - News, Features, and Slideshows

News

• ACCC changes tune on Trans-Pacific Partnership IP impact

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has changed its view of the potential impact the Trans-Pacific Partnership will have on the nation’s intellectual property regime.

• Local Intel, IBM heads laud Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement

  Yesterday’s signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the first step in a still lengthy road to ratification for the controversial trade agreement, drew a warm reception from the local heads of tech companies IBM and Intel.

• Australia signs TPP agreement

  Trade minister Andrew Robb today signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement alongside representatives from 11 other nations that are party to the TPP.

• ACCC concerned over Trans-Pacific Partnership IP provisions

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has called for a “comprehensive and robust” analysis of intellectual property provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership before Australia enacts the trade agreement.

• Groups urge balance in TPP IP provisions

  A coalition of 15 groups, including the Australian Digital Alliance and Electronic Frontiers Australia, has called on participants in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations to ensure support for fair use-style exceptions to copyright is included in the agreement.

• TPP: Australia pushes against ISDS in trade agreement, WikiLeaks reveals

  Australia appears to be the lone holdout – for now – to a key section of the Trans-Pacific Partnership that details how multinational companies could take legal actions against governments over decisions they consider detrimental to their interests.

• Call for release of Trans-Pacific Partnership text

  Forty-eight non-government organisations have issued a call for the release of the draft text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.

• Australia backs copyright crackdown in TPP

  Leaked details of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations reveal that Australia is pushing an approach to copyright enforcement in the region that appears to ignore broader public interest concerns in favour of the supporting rights owners.

• TPP may force ISPs to police online activity

  Web companies and user groups worldwide believe copyright-related proposals included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement will force ISPs to police their customers' online activities.

• Digital coalition asks for a fair deal on TPP copyright provisions

  A coalition of organisations have started a ‘Fair Deal’ campaign against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement.

• Japan joins Trans-Pacific Partnership talks

  Japan has joined negotiations for the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement, following nearly 18 months of discussions with the US.
  

• Disney calls for extended copyright in international trade agreement

  Disney has reportedly used a stakeholders meeting for the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement to call for extended copyright terms.