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October 09, 2015
from
WikiLeaks Website
Today, 9 October, 2015
WikiLeaks releases the final
negotiated text for
the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership)
Intellectual Property Rights Chapter.
The TPP encompasses 12 nations
representing more than 40 per cent of global GDP. Despite a final
agreement, the text is still being withheld from the public, notably
until after the Canadian election on October 19.
The document is dated four days ago,
October 5th, or last Monday, the same day it was
announced in Atlanta, Georgia that the 12 member states to the
treaty had reached an accord after five and a half years of
negotiations.
The IP Chapter of the TPP has perhaps
been the most controversial chapter due to its wide-ranging effects
on internet services, medicines, publishers, civil liberties and
biological patents.
"If TPP is ratified, people in the
Pacific-Rim countries would have to live by the rules in this
leaked text," said Peter Maybarduk, Public Citizen's Global
Access to Medicines Program Director.
"The new monopoly rights for big
pharmaceutical firms would compromise access to medicines in TPP
countries. The TPP would cost lives."
Full
Press Release
Today, 9 October, 2015 WikiLeaks
releases the final negotiated text for the TPP (Trans-Pacific
Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter.
The TPP encompasses 12 nations
representing more than 40 per cent of global GDP. Despite a
final agreement, the text is still being withheld from the
public, notably until after the Canadian election on October 19.
The document is dated four days ago, October 5th, or last
Monday, the same day it was announced in Atlanta, Georgia that
the 12 member states to the treaty had reached an accord after
five and a half years of negotiations.
The IP Chapter of the TPP has perhaps been the most
controversial chapter due to its wide-ranging effects on
internet services, medicines, publishers, civil liberties and
biological patents.
"If TPP is ratified, people in
the Pacific-Rim countries would have to live by the rules in
this leaked text," said Peter Maybarduk, Public Citizen's
Global Access to Medicines Program Director.
"The new monopoly rights for big
pharmaceutical firms would compromise access to medicines in
TPP countries. The TPP would cost lives."
Hundreds of representatives from
large corporations had direct access to the negotiations whereas
elected officials had limited or no access.
Political opposition to the TPP in
the United States, the dominant member of the 12 negotiating
nations, has increased over time as details have emerged through
previous WikiLeaks disclosures.
Notably, the Democratic front
runner,
Hillary Clinton, came out
against the TPP on Wednesday saying:
"Based on what I know so far, I
can't support this agreement."
This is a populist reversal
by Hillary Clinton as earlier she has hailed the TPP as,
"the gold standard in trade
agreements".
In June the House of Representatives
of the US Congress narrowly approved to "fast-track" the TPP,
preventing the Congressmen from discussing or amending any parts
of the treaty, only vote for or against it.
218 voted for the "fast-track"
measure and 208 against. Only 28 House Democrats backed it. TPP
is the first of a trinity of US backed economic treaties, the
"Three Big T's", to be finalized.
The other two being,
Source
View the leaked "TPP Treaty
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Intellectual Property Rights Chapter, Consolidated Text".
Experts Analysis
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Expert Analysis: "Ambiguity Leads to Fallacy: Biologics
Exclusivity in the Trans-Pacific Partnership"
(PDF,
HTML)
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Expert Analysis: "Pharmaceutical
Provisions in the TPP" (PDF,
HTML)
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Expert Analysis: "TPP Transition
Periods on Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Rules" (PDF,
HTML)
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Expert Analysis: "International
Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
1991 (UPOV91)" (PDF,
HTML)
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Expert Analysis: "Propiedad
Intelectual en el Tratado Transpacífico - Más Costos que
Beneficios"
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Expert Analysis: "Public Citizen
- WikiLeaks Publication of Complete, Final TPP Intellectual
Property" (PDF,
HTML)
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