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<center>'''*** Please check back soon for a more detailed schedule! ***'''</center> | |||
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Saturday May 4th, 2013 | |||
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST | |||
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What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership? The TPP is a massive trade agreement between more than 12 countries around the Pacific, and it covers everything from textiles, cars, tobacco, and financial regulation. The reason why we're meeting is to talk about the chapter that carries horribly expansive copyright policies. | What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership? The TPP is a massive trade agreement between more than 12 countries around the Pacific, and it covers everything from textiles, cars, tobacco, and financial regulation. The reason why *we're* meeting is to talk about the chapter that carries horribly expansive copyright policies. | ||
'''The TPP | '''The copyright policies in the TPP are even worse than the DMCA'''. It'd strengthen legal protections for DRM, carries vague but daunting language to increase criminal/civil penalties for infringement, and extends copyright terms even *further* than in the US.... and that's just a few of the problems we're fighting. These copyright laws will further restrict us from our right to share, remix, hack, and tinker with digital content and devices. | ||
The worse part is that it's all being done in '''secret''' in a process that completely shuts out public interests from its considerations. Through trade agreements, corporations have been able to get their way and make countries pass | The worse part is that it's all being done in '''secret''' in a process that completely shuts out public interests from its considerations. Through trade agreements, corporations have been able to get their way and make countries pass laws to protect their profits at the expense of the public and our freedoms. TPP is the biggest agreement yet, and we need to stop Big Content interests from lobbying our policymakers into making laws that lock up technology, culture, and knowledge. | ||
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The Internet is ours. It’s up to us to show up and defend it. | The Internet is ours. It’s up to us to show up and defend it. | ||
==== Who's behind this? ==== | ==== Who's behind this? ==== | ||
This is being organized by | This is being organized by Maira Sutton, Global Policy Analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. | ||
If you have other ideas for projects, would like to contribute somehow, or have any questions at all, please contact maira [at] eff [dot] org. | If you have other ideas for projects, would like to contribute somehow, or have any questions at all, please contact maira [at] eff [dot] org. | ||