Press Release – New Zealand Labour Party The Labour Party will not support the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement unless key protections for New Zealanders are met, Opposition leader Andrew Little says. Labour supports free trade. However, we will not support a TPP agreement that …
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Press Release – Wikileaks Today, 16 April 2015, WikiLeaks publishes an analysis and search system for The Sony Archives: 30,287 documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and 173,132 emails, to and from more than 2,200 SPE email addresses. SPE is a US subsidiary of the Japanese …
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Column – Gordon Campbell The sole upside for the government in its release of a three month old threat to contaminate infant formula is that the story knocked Winston Peters off the front pages. In case that sounds like a conspiracy theory, the government was in a no win …
Gordon Campbell on the dairy contamination threats Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey On the eve of the latest (non)round of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) yet another version of the intellectual property has found its way to Wikileaks .
Latest leak of TPPA intellectual property text confirms risk Read More »
Press Release – Equity New Zealand Equity New Zealand will join unions, community organisations, academics, creatives and students in co-sponsoring the national Day of Action to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement thisSaturday, 29 March.
NZ actors to rally against secretive TPPA Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement that Wikileaks posted in November signalled over 100 areas of disagreement. Those square brackets have been rapidly disappearing in the lead-up to the ministerial meeting …
TPPA Ministers set to make crucial IP decisions this weekend Read More »
Column – Gordon Campbell Smears are the political equivalent of a hit and run. First comes the allegation that hints of skullduggery – Russel Norman and Winston Peters held secret meetings with Kim Dotcom! – and then comes the rebuttal. Unfortunately, by the time the rebuttals …
Gordon Campbell on smear tactics in politics 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 – Wikileaks Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter . The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more …
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) IP Chapter Read More »
Article – Creative Freedom Foundation Last week the Creative Freedom Foundation participated in a group briefing and Q&A session with David Walker, NZs Chief Negotiator in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement , and officials Angela Strahl and Yvonne Woutersen.
TPPA looks set to secretly extend NZ’s Copyright Term Read More »
Article – Gordon Campbell Hi and welcome to the 44th edition of Werewolf. Our cover story this month has been timed to co-incide with the looming Citizens Initiated Referendum on the government’s asset sales programme .
Werewolf Edition #44 : Referendum On A Robbery Read More »
Press Release – Creative Commons Today Creative Commons released a policy statement expressing its support for copyright reform efforts around the world.
Supporting Copyright Reform Read More »
