What is in the draft and info about the TPP:
Trans Pacific Trade is a deal that is mostly not about trade. Of the 29 draft chapters, only 5 deal with traditional trade issues. Most would set rules on non-trade matters that affect our daily lives.
Who can see it in the US: Obama and selected team.
Limited access: Senate finance committee, Congress (both complain over how limited the access is)
Some worrisome information in the draft:
One of the laws stipulates that Every nation who signs this agreement agrees that any citizen who so much as provides documentation about copyrighted communications shall be under criminal penalty "even absent willful trademark counterfeiting or copyright or related rights piracy"
History on the document shows that Obama continues to veto including the following sentence which 10/12 countries want to include: "maintain a balance between the rights of intellectual property holders and the legitimate interests of users and the community".
It also allows companies to never have their drugs become generic worldwide granting endless monopoly and over pricing on drugs from life saving to mundane. The catch? Every 20 years they simply have to think of a new use for the drug.
History on the document shows Obama is pushing for all ISPs to be liable for any copyright violations users do on their network. Fortunately almost all the other nations oppose this.
Venezuela wants corporations to have the right to confiscate your computer for evidence, on mere suspicion. Lets hope this does not get added. "Judicial authorities shall have the authority [VN propose: , at the right holder's request,] to order [VN propose: as provisional measures] the seizure or other taking into custody of suspected infringing goods, materials and implements relevant to the infringement, and, at least for trademark counterfeiting, documentary evidence relevant to the infringement."
