[BNA] ACTA, TPPA Opponents Cite Broken Promises On Medicines, One-Sided Copyright Provisions

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement currently being negotiated by the U.S. Trade Representative is even more restrictive and less attentive to human rights than the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that so riled the social justice community in the last two years […]

Jérémie Zimmermann, cofounder of La Quadrature du Net, a French advocacy group for users’ digital rights, urged the audience to lobby EU Parliament members to defeat ACTA. “This is a battle we cannot afford to lose,” he said.

[…] the piracy-oriented panelists were quick to assign responsibility to the administration’s kowtowing to large corporate interests. According to Band, for example, the goal of the TPPA is “making the world safe for Disney …, doing what’s good for the movie industry.

http://www.bna.com/acta-tppa-opponents-n12884903287/