[x-pubpol] Issa releases TPP IP Chapter

[Joly MacFie]

http://issa.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=976&Itemid=28&Itemid=4

Issa Releases the Trans Pacific Partnership Intellectual Property Rights
Chapter on
KeepTheWebOPEN.com
5/15/2012

WASHINGTON, DC - As the 12th round of closed-door negotiations continue,
Congressman
Darrell Issa (R-CA) today released the draft intellectual property chapter
of the Trans
Pacific Partnership (TPP) on KeepTheWebOPEN.com, while calling on US Trade
Representative
Ron Kirk to publicly release the latest text U.S. negotiators are seeking
to include in
the agreement. TPP is being negotiated by the United States, Australia,
Brunei, Chile,
Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, but because the Obama
Administration
has kept citizens, many-stakeholders and Congress in the dark, little is
known about the
intellectual property (IP) rights chapter of TPP beyond rumors and this
February 2011 U.S.
draft proposal.

"At a time when the American people and Internet users all around the world
are rightfully
wary of any closed-door negotiations that could adversely impact their
ability to freely
and openly access the Internet, the Obama Administration continues to
pursue a secretive,
closed-door negotiating process for the Trans Pacific Partnership," Issa
said. "I have
decided to publish the intellectual property rights chapter of TPP in
Madison so that the
public can provide input to those negotiating this agreement, and to push
this
Administration - and the federal government as a whole - to be open,
transparent and
inclusive when it comes to international intellectual property rights
agreements that have
potentially serious consequences for the Internet community."

Learn more at http://keepthewebopen.com/tpp.



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