[Infowarrior] - SOPA Supporters Urge White House To Use Secretive TPP Process To Insert Draconian New IP Laws

[Richard Forno]

SOPA Supporters Urge White House To Use Secretive TPP Process To Insert Draconian New IP Laws

from the sopa-reunion dept

We've been warning for a while about the TPP negotiations, and how the big interests who pushed SOPA were making a concerted effort to use the (very questionable and extremely secretive) nature of international trade negotiations to sneak through many of the things they wanted in SOPA, without any scrutiny. Make no mistake: while the public has no access to, or information about, what the federal government is negotiating, the big special interests are well informed. As pressure has been mounting against TPP, it appears that the US Chamber of Commerce has "brought the band back together," putting outa letter to the Obama administration explaining why draconian IP rules must be included in the TPP. The letter is signed by a who's who of SOPA supporters, including (of course) the Chamber of Commerce, the MPAA, the RIAA, A2IM, PhRMA, AAP, BSA, ESA and more. Basically, it's a bunch of also ran industry trade groups whining to the feds that they can't innovate anymore and they need economically damaging mercantilist-style protectionism.

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120510/03250118857/sopa-supporters-urge-white-house-to-use-secretive-tpp-process-to-insert-draconian-new-ip-laws.shtml

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