The Congressional Research Service has released a report on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in which it discusses “selected key TTIP negotiating issues.” It predicts that regulatory talks...
Read MoreNurul Izzah Anwar, Member of Parliament for Lembah Pantai and Vice President of KEADILAN, has called for the creation of a Parliamentary Select Committee on the Trans Pacific Partnership. She further stated that the agreement...
Read MoreEarlier this month, Brook Baker posted a Civil Society Statement in support of an upcoming Brazilian legislative proposal that would make greater use of TRIPS flexibilities to promote access to medicines. The legislation will...
Read MoreThe government of Antigua and Barbuda is moving forward with plans “to suspend certain concessions and other obligations relating to United States intellectual property rights” in retaliation for the US’s...
Read MoreLast week, USTR hosted the first round of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in Washington D.C. A statement by the EU indicated that during the talks, the negotiating groups “set out...
Read MoreLast month, PIJIP asked people to recommend examples of domestic legal provisions regarding technological protection measures (TPMs) that include good protections of users engaged in lawful uses of copyrighted content. People...
Read MoreThe Malaysian Ministry of International Trade and Industry has published a brief outlining how it views the current state of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. It believes that 14 of the 29 chapters of the...
Read MoreToday a Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on the topic: “A Tangle of Trade Barriers: How India’s Industrial Policy is Hurting U.S. Companies.” ...
Read MoreLast week, Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the Obama Administration’s nominee for U.S. Trade Representative, Michael Froman, asking him to “immediately make fully public ” the negotiating text of the...
Read MorePeruvian Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism José Silva Martinot – asked about intellectual property (IP) provisions proposed by the United States in the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations – said on television...
Read MoreLast Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee held its confirmation hearing for the Obama Administration’s nominee for U.S. Trade Representative, Michael Froman. The hearing webpage has a webcast and prepared statements by...
Read MoreThe government of Taiwan has backed down from plans to amend its copyright law to justify take-downs of foreign websites accused of hosting copyright-infringing material. The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (IPO) had...
Read MoreLast week Jim McDermott wrote an op-ed in Roll Call on the TPP in which he warned that the U.S. proposal for intellectual property in the TPP could “cost millions of lives in developing countries.” McDermott wrote...
Read MoreToday the Obama Administration’s inter-agency Trade Policy Staff Committee held the first day of its two-day hearing on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Many of the witnesses who testified in the...
Read MoreUSTR has sent witnesses the schedule for its Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership hearing on May 29-30. There will be 61 witnesses over the two days. Each witness will have 5 minutes to give remakrks, and 5 minutes...
Read MoreRepresentatives Waxman, Lee, DeLauro, Schakowsky, and Bass have sent a letter to Acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis supporting a proposal by Haiti to allow poor countries extra time to enact stronger rules on...
Read MoreCarolina Botero has sent us an English translation of the new copyright legislation that was recently proposed in Colombia to replace the controversial “Ley Lleras 2.0” law that was struck down earlier last year by...
Read MoreTrade negotiators are meeting in Lima, Peru this week for the seventeenth round of talks on the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The negotiations are reaching the final stages as an October deadline approaches, and the...
Read MoreToday at 2pm EST, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet will hold the first hearing to address copyright reform since the announcement by Chairman Goodlatte of a comprehensive review...
Read MoreBy last Friday, 347 comments had been submitted to the US Trade Representative in response to its Request for Comments on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agreement (TTIP). Numerous comments addressed intellectual...
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