FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Art Brodsky
202-861-0020 (o)
301-908-7715 (c)
abrodsky@publicknowledge.org

The latest back-room negotiations for the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) trade talks are scheduled for May 8-18 in Dallas.   The negotiations have already caused a great deal of concern around the world and have attracted the attention of the Occupy movement.

Public Knowledge will host a press call at 2 p.m. (EDT) on Wednesday, May 2, to give reporters a preview of the TPP session and issues surrounding it, focusing largely on intellectual property issues such as copyright and access to medicine.

The call-in number is:  213-417-9250

Passcode 346109

A good explainer of the talks is here:  http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/whats-actually-tpp

Participating on the call will be:

  • Rashmi Rangnath, director of Public Knowledge’s Global Knowledge Initiative;
  • Sean Flynn, Associate Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University’s Washington College of Law;
  • Margot Kaminski, Executive Director, Information Society Project of Yale Law School;
  • Krista Cox, staff attorney at Knowledge Ecology International;
  • Peter Maybarduk, Access to Medicines Program Director at Public Citizen.

 

Public Knowledge is a Washington D.C.- based public interest group working to defend consumer rights in the emerging digital culture.  More information is available at http://www.publicknowledge.org