{"id":13248,"date":"2015-10-11T07:39:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T12:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13248"},"modified":"2015-10-11T07:39:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T12:39:18","slug":"tpp-chapter-released-by-wikileaks-would-let-governments-curtail-trials-so-as-to-contain-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13248","title":{"rendered":"TPP Chapter Released by WikiLeaks Would Let Governments Curtail Trials So as to Contain Information"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TPP Chapter Released by WikiLeaks Would Let Governments Curtail Trials So as to Contain Information<\/a><\/h3>\n

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What WikiLeaks claims to be the full intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership appears to give countries greater power to stop sensitive information from going public.<\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/b>\u00a0reports:<\/p>\n

One chapter appears to give the signatory countries (referred to as \u201cparties\u201d) greater power to stop embarrassing information going public. The treaty would give signatories the ability to curtail legal proceedings if the theft of information is \u201cdetrimental to a party\u2019s economic interests, international relations, or national defense or national security\u201d \u2013 in other words, presumably, if a trial would cause the information to spread. \u2026<\/p>\n

Among the provisions in the chapter (which may or may not be the most recent version) are rules that say that each country in the agreement has the authority to compel anyone accused of violating intellectual property law to provide \u201crelevant information […] that the infringer or alleged infringer possesses or controls\u201d as provided for in that country\u2019s own laws.<\/p>\n

The rules also state that every country has the authority to immediately give the name and address of anyone importing detained goods to whoever owns the intellectual property.<\/p>\n

That information can be very broad, too: \u201cSuch information may include information regarding any person involved in any aspect of the infringement or alleged infringement,\u201d the document continues, \u201cand regarding the means of production or the channels of distribution of the infringing or allegedly infringing goods or services, including the identification of third persons alleged to be involved in the production and distribution of such goods or services and of their channels of distribution.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Guardian further reports that a drafter\u2019s note says every participating country\u2019s individual laws about whistleblowing would still apply\u2014though whether or not they would be applied would of course be up to the officials empowered to execute those laws.<\/p>\n

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TPP Chapter Released by WikiLeaks Would Let Governments Curtail Trials So as to Contain Information T\u00a0\/\u00a0CC BY-ND 2.0 What WikiLeaks claims to be the full intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership appears to give countries greater power to stop sensitive information from going public. The Guardian\u00a0reports: One chapter appears to give the signatory countries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[3771,1455,710,804,2738,8738,880],"class_list":["post-13248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-guardian","tag-national-security","tag-secrecy","tag-tpp","tag-transpacific-partnership","tag-truthdig","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13249,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248\/revisions\/13249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}