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Trans-Pacific Partnership Text Released

posted by martyb on Thursday November 05 2015, @09:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the fine-toothed-comb-time dept.

drpylons writes with news from New Zealand:

The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement was released by TPP Parties on 5 November 2015 and can be accessed by chapter. The text will continue to undergo legal review and will be translated into French and Spanish language versions prior to signature.

All 30 Chapters and all Annexes are available for download as a single .zip file.

Note: Subsequent to this story being submitted, Ars Technica published an article Obama praises Trans-Pacific Partnership accord as full text is released which notes:

The President Barack Obama administration and other countries released the entire 2,000-page Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on Thursday—a proposed 12-nation pact dealing with everything from intellectual property to human rights. It took five years of secret negotiations to finalize but only a moment for Obama to praise the pact publicly.

[...] The nations in the accord include the US, Japan, Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, and Brunei. They represent about 40 percent of the global economy.

The article goes on to list some of the benefits (tariffs lowered or removed) and controversies (exports US copyright law regarding how long a copyright lasts to be life of author plus 70 years after death.)

So, now that the full text is out and available for review, what say you Soylentils? Does it provide a good balance for all parties involved? What are the upsides and downsides? Who are the winners and losers?

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by KilroySmith on Thursday November 05 2015, @10:09PM

    by KilroySmith (2113) on Thursday November 05 2015, @10:09PM (#259118)

    I'm waiting for someone with an agenda to tell me what to think.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @10:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @10:46PM (#259145)

    As the President of the Pirate Party of Canada, I can tell you it is bad.

    I should be working on a press-release instead of posting here though.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @10:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @10:59PM (#259153)

      Hey, I voted for you Mr President. It's an honor to see you posting on SN.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @10:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @10:24AM (#259367)

    They already have - it's called the TPP.

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Friday November 06 2015, @10:42AM

    by Bot (3902) on Friday November 06 2015, @10:42AM (#259375) Journal

    A 2000 page blob coming from 5 years of negotiations behind guarded closed doors?
    I am sure it's pretty benign.

    It's as if tinfoil hats actually had shielded brains from some harmful radiation.

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    Account abandoned.

  • (Score: 2) by Gravis on Friday November 06 2015, @12:59PM

    by Gravis (4596) on Friday November 06 2015, @12:59PM (#259408)

    Hi! I noticed you were trying to form an opinion.
    Would you like a political party to tell you what to think?
     
    * Yes
    * Do I have a choice?
     
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