TPP Agreement on Intellectual Property

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Steampunk
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Not directly LV related, but might be of interest for those who follow such things. The TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) does have some potential ramifications for copyright enforcement on the Internet. Not only in the US, but for our friends in Canada, Australia and elsewhere.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/tpp-creates-liabilities-isps-and-put-your-rights-risk

Disclaimer: The link above is for the Electronic Frontier Foundation; hardly an organization without a bias. Other resources are on the web offering different points of view. And there's a Wikipedia article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership


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