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 »
Press Release – Electronic Frontier Foundation 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 …
US Negotiators Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms Read More »
Press Release – Electronic Frontier Foundation Academics, experts, consumer groups, Internet freedom organizations, libraries, educational institutions, patients and access to medicines groups have flown a long way from around the world to Auckland, New Zealand, to engage with delegates in the 15th round …
New Rule Shuts Out Civil Society from TPP Negotiation Venue Read More »
Press Release – Electronic Frontier Foundation The TPP wants service providers to undertake the financial and administrative burdens of becoming copyright cops, serving a copyright maximalist agenda while disregarding the consequences for Internet freedom and innovation.
EFF on Leaked TPP IP Chapter – ISPs As Copyright Cops Read More »
Press Release – Electronic Frontier Foundation The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced a new copyright proposal today for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. One part of the proposal is a “3-step test” that may restrict copyright exceptions like fair use.
Civil Society Groups on U.S. TPP Copyright Proposal Read More »
