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20 July 2013
Cambodian Activists Explain Why The EU-India FTA Is A Matter Of Life And Death
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One of the many problems with the secretive nature of trade agreements is that it insulates negotiators from the real-world consequences...
Investor-State Dispute Resolution: The Monster Lurking Inside Free Trade Agreements
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We wrote recently about how multilateral trade agreements have become a convenient way to circumvent democratic decision making. One o...
14 April 2013
How Multilateral Free Trade Agreements Are Bypassing Democratic Decision-Making Around The World
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One of the most worrying aspects of ACTA -- which began life as a "simple" treaty about combatting counterfeit goods -- was how...
31 March 2013
South Korea Considers Dumping Draconian Copyright Law Forced On It By The US
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As Mike noted a couple of days ago, international trade agreements often have the effect of constraining the power of national legislat...
10 February 2013
Japan Wonders Whether It Is Worth Joining TPP Negotiations After All
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement began as a cosy treaty between just three nations: Chile, New Zealand and Singapore . But o...
06 January 2013
After ACTA: Trans-Atlantic Partnership Agreement
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It's not often that trade agreements make it to the front page of the newspapers, but that's what happened on New Year's Day:...
Treaty Shopping: How Companies Tilt The Legal Playing Field For Investor-State Arbitration
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Alongside globe-spanning treaties like ACTA and TPP, there are more subtle efforts to limit the power of national governments, through th...
08 December 2012
Another Problem with Copyright; How to Fix It
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Anyone who has been reading this blog for a while will be well aware of some of the key problems with copyright in the Internet age. For...
Thailand To Join TPP Negotiations; Access To Medicines Likely To Suffer As A Consequence
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Although things have gotten rather quiet on the TPP front, that doesn't mean that the juggernaut has been halted. On the contrary: ...
13 September 2012
The New Kremlinology: Decoding The Signals Of Future EU Copyright Enforcement Moves
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The negotiations behind closed doors of major treaties like ACTA and TPP, and the refusal of participants to release official drafts or to...
23 July 2012
EU To Open Up Secret Clinical Trial Data; TPP Looking Even More Retrogressive
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Openness is really beginning to sweep through the European Union at all levels. Yesterday we wrote about the European Commission's a...
10 June 2012
Some Countries Want To Fix TPP... By Making It More Like ACTA
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ACTA and TPP have much in common, but the way in which they represents two aspects of the same impulse has never been shown more clearly ...
20 May 2012
One Area Where China Should Definitely Stop Ripping Off The West: Copyright Law
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When it comes to ACTA and TPP, China is the elephant in the room -- or maybe that should be the dragon in the room. For without China's...
ACTA Update XVI
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On Monday I posted my talk "Before and After SOPA ". In it, there's a reference to "country club" treaties (slid...
12 May 2012
After SOPA And ACTA, Now TPP Starts To Fall Apart
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What an extraordinary year this has been for Net activism. After the great SOPA blackout led to SOPA and PIPA being withdrawn, and the an...
27 April 2012
Kenya's High Court Rules Anti-Counterfeiting Law Is Unconstitutional Because It Threatens Access To Generic Drugs
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Back in 2009, Techdirt wrote about an interesting challenge to a then-new law against counterfeits in Kenya, on the grounds that it migh...
18 April 2012
Is TPP To Blame For The Continuing Delay In Passing New Zealand's 2008 Bill That Excludes Software Patents?
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As Techdirt reported a couple of years ago, a hard-fought campaign in New Zealand to prevent software patents being granted there seemed...
As ACTA 1.0 Lies Dying, Are G8 Countries Already Working On ACTA 2.0?
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As we recently reported , ACTA has been dealt a serious blow by the EU Rapporteur's recommendation that the European Parliament shoul...
11 April 2012
Unhappy With Even Minimal Scrutiny, US Removes Last Pretense Of TPP Transparency
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One of the central problems of ACTA has been its lack of transparency . TPP has also been negotiated behind closed doors, but unlike ACTA...
06 April 2012
Where TPP Goes Beyond ACTA -- And How It Shows Us The Future Of IP Enforcement
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ACTA and TPP have much in common. That's no coincidence, since they are both born of a common desire to move away from multilateral f...
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