Press Release – US State Department SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon. Im delighted to welcome Foreign Minister Bishop and Defence Minister Johnston to Washington for what has been a very productive Australia-United States Ministerial meeting, or AUSMIN as we call it for short.
Kerry, Hagel, Australian Ministers’ Joint Press Availability Read More »
Press Release – AFTINET As negotiations tasked with pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to conclusion gets underway in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network condemned worsening opportunities for public participation in an already opaque process.
TPP Negotiations Move Further Underground in Salt Lake City Read More »
Opinion – Clare Curran Patents, trademarks, and copyrights are the principal means for establishing ownership rights to inventions and ideas, and provide a legal foundation by which intangible ideas and creations generate tangible benefits to businesses and employees.
TPP watch: why doesn’t NZ quantify its intellectual capital? Read More »
Press Release – Institute for Public Accuracy WikiLeaks today 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 than 40 per cent of the worlds …
Secret TPP Text Leaked, “Corporate Power Grab” Criticized 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 – Green Party The New Zealand Government must not give in to United States corporates pushing their own vested interests in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Green Party Co-leader Dr Norman said today.
NZ must not give in to US over TPP Read More »
Press Release – Fair Deal Coalition The leaked copy of the Trans Pacific Partnership confirms the Fair Deal Coalitions fears that New Zealand is facing aggressive US moves in the fight to protect our economic future through maintaining a fair copyright framework.
Leaked TPP text puts New Zealand’s economic future at risk Read More »
Press Release – Patricia Ranald Cross-party Congressional opposition to legislation which would speed up approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) shows the deal could unravel in the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Dr. Patricia Ranald, Convener of the Australian …
US Congress Democrat and Republican oppose TPP Deal Read More »
Press Release – Public Citizen USA A letter sent today to President Barack Obama opposing Fast Track authority, signed by 151 House Democrats, signals the end of a controversial Nixon-era procedure used to railroad contentious trade pacts through Congress. Obama has asked Congress to …
151 House Democrats & GOP Oppose ‘Fast Track’ Authority Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Two king hits in one day for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is a bad omen for chief negotiators and hundreds of officials as they head into a crunch meeting in Salt Lake City next week, according to Auckland University Professor Jane Kelsey, …
TPPA: Leaked IP text -US Congress revolts against Fast Track Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Every ounce of political pressure will come on the negotiators during a special round of talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) that are scheduled for Salt Lake City from 19 to 24 November, according to Professor Jane Kelsey …
Crunch Time for TPPA at Salt Lake City Meeting 19-24 Novembe Read More »
Column – Binoy Kampmark In time, an insidious practice assumes the property of custom. It might seem barbaric and archaic, but as the great Sophist Protagoras claimed, man is the measure of all things. A ghastly measure, at that.
Killing Peace: Drones and Hakimullah Mehsud Read More »
