KEI analysis of Wikileaks leak of TPP IPR text, from August 30, 2013 | Knowledge Ecology International - Iceweasel. KEI Comments on the August 30, 2013 version of the TPP IP Chapter For more information, contact James Love, mailto:james.love@keionline.org, mobile +1.202.361.3040. Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) has obtained from Wikileaks a complete copy of the consolidated negotiating text for the IP Chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). (Copy here, and on the Wikileaks site here: The leaked text was distributed among the Chief Negotiators by the USTR after the 19th Round of Negotiations at Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, in August 27th, 2013.
There have been two rounds since Brunei, and the latest version of the text, from October, will be discussed in Salt Lake City next week. The text released by Wikileaks is 95 pages long, with 296 footnotes and 941 brackets in the text, and includes details on the positions taken by individual countries. An enduring mystery is the appalling acceptance of the secrecy by the working news media.
Access to Medicines Copyright. The Next SOPA/PIPA Battle: A Response to Five Arguments for Copyright Access and Internet Freedom. If you are one of the many people who sent an email, made a phone call, posted on facebook, or otherwise acted in the fight over SOPA and PIPA, your call to action may come again in the not so distant future. Yes, SOPA and PIPA in their original forms are “dead,” but the push to address copyright infringement is paramount for the movie, music, computer software, and other industries.
In his February 8th op-ed in the New York Times, Cary H. Sherman, chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), expressed interest in “help[ing] come up with constructive alternatives” in the wake of the vast public outcry. Congressman Stephen LaTourette added that Congress would probably revisit the regulations next year. To that extent, Brad Plummer of the Washington Post wrote an excellent blog regarding five elements for Internet freedom advocates to inject into the debate over copyright infringement on the Internet. {*style:<b>1.
</b>*} {*style:<b>2. {*style:<b>3. Holloway, La Boétie, Hegel - Iceweasel. The Utopian · The Thirteen Commandments of Neoliberalism. By Philip Mirowski. Neoliberals are not fundamentalists. But they approach crises with a certain logic—one that is directly relevant to comprehending neoliberalism’s unexpected strength in the current global crisis. Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, the neoliberal project stood out from other strains of right-wing thought in that it was self-consciously constituted as an entity dedicated to the development, promulgation, and popularization of doctrines intended to mutate over time.
It was a moveable feast, and not a catechism fixed at the Council of Trent. It is very important to have some familiarity with neoliberal ideas, if only to resist simple-minded characterizations of the neoliberal approach to the financial crisis as some form of evangelical “market fundamentalism.” Neoliberalism does not impart any dose of Old Time Religion. Clearly, neoliberals do not navigate with a fixed static Utopia as the astrolabe for all their political strivings. Change the world without taking power - John Holloway. Masters of the Internet. The geopolitics of the Internet broke open during the first half of December at an international conference in Dubai convened by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN affiliate agency with 193 national members. At these meetings, states (thronged by corporate advisors) forge agreements to enable international communications via cables and satellites. These gatherings, however boring and bureaucratic, are crucial because of the enormous importance of networks in the operation of the transnational political economy.
The December 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai produced a major controversy: should ITU members vest the agency with oversight responsibilities for the Internet, responsibilities comparable to those it has exercised for decades for other forms of international communication? To understand what is at stake we need to make our way through the rhetorical smog. Freedom of expression is no trifling issue. Interests concealed. Patent Absurdity - How software patents broke the system - YouTube - Iceweasel.