Intellectual property (IP) should be left out of current trade negotiations with the U.S. and a deal should not be reached in secret, European civil liberties representatives advised the European Commission’s trade department Wednesday. […]
Meanwhile, Joe McNamee of EDRi argued that the Commission would be shooting itself in the foot by resisting transparency, as much of the public would then automatically assume it had something to hide, even if 70 percent of the proposals were good. « I don’t see the value of non-transparency. In fact it could kill TTIP just as effectively as it killed ACTA, » said McNamee. […]
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