[melbourne-pug] [OT] Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement IP Chapter leak

[Gagan Sharma]

Hi All,

Does anyone know  the outcome of travel grant for Linux conference 2014 ?

Regards
Gagan Sharma


On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Bianca Gibson <
bianca.rachel.gibson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> You may have heard that wikileaks released a leak of the IP chapter of the
> Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement.
> This is an international trade agreement being negotiated in secret. There
> are some very concerning proposals in the leak. Criminalisation of
> copyright infringement, legal protections for DRM, ISP liability,
> terminating internet access for copyright infringement, rules around
> patentable subject matter and rigid restrictions around exceptions to
> copyright.
>
> Once it's in trade agreements it's really hard to go back on, trade
> agreements often require signing up to a list of old ones. They stack on
> top of each other and stick around for a really long time.
>
> Choice have a petition to release the full text which I would strongly
> urge you to sign and pass on:
> https://choice.good.do/dont-trade-it-away/release-the-tpp-text/
>
> Cheers,
> Bianca
>
>
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