Press Release – New Zealand Labour Party New Zealands tech sector faces an uncertain future if a hard-fought for exclusion for software patents is missing from the final text of the Trans Pacific Partnership, Labours ICT spokesperson Clare Curran said today.
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Press Release – Binoy Kampmark This is about increasing the ability of global corporations to source wherever they can at the lowest cost.
What We Always Knew: The TPP and Intellectual Property Read More »
Press Release – Wikileaks Today, 9 October, 2015 WikiLeaks releases the final negotiated text for the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP encompasses 12 nations representing more than 40 per cent of global GDP. Despite a final agreement, the …
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Inevitably, leaks are starting to fill the void of official texts from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), says Professor Jane Kelsey, who has been pressing for the release of final texts to allow proper assessment of the governments claims.
Final TPPA intellectual property chapter leaked Read More »
Article – Scoop Full Coverage Announcements, reaction and commentary on the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal and initial agreement details from NZ and the world.
Scoop Coverage: TPPA Deal Reached Read More »
Press Release – OpenMedia October 4, 2015 The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement reached today comes as the result of over five years of negotiations and poses an extreme threat to free expression online.
TPP agreement poses serious threat to global Internet users Read More »
Press Release – OpenMedia Trans-Pacific Partnership countries announce agreement in principle posing serious threat to global Internet users
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Press Release – Electronic Frontier Foundation Copyright restricts all kinds of important, everyday uses of creative workseven worse, these strict rules last nearly two lifetimes for any given work. We are fighting to reform and push back against these restrictions in the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership …
Open Letter Calls on TPP Negotiators to Stand up for users Read More »
Writing on his organisation’s TechBlog , IITP chief executive Paul Matthews says after a meeting with New Zealand TTP negotiators he feels more positive about what the trade agreement means for our technology sector.
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Opinion – Tim Campion I am a Systems Analyst by trade. I have been working on designing systems and fixing broken ones for over 20 years. I have worked across many industries in both the public and the private sectors and have worked on all manner of systems and technologies. …
Why TPPA could rob our children of a truly prosperous future Read More »
Article – Jeremy Wilkinson and Megan Gattey Applying GST to online purchases was the main focus of this afternoons post-cabinet press conference in Wellington.
Post-cabinet press conference: Online purchase GST and TPPA Read More »
Press Release – Institute of IT Professionals Ian Taylor, President of New Zealands largest IT representative body The Institute of IT Professionals NZ and CEO of Dunedin tech firm Animation Research Ltd, has written to Trade Minister Tim Groser re-raising concerns about the possible impact of TPP …
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