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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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @12:50AM
This is actually in 'response' to USA's declining power as the corporations have leeched it dry and are moving abroad to suck the life out of the rest of the world. Lazay Faire capitalism at it's apex. China is smarter than that; the TPP is already screwing us all and they are already powerful enough to not need the USA & it's last desperate grabs for it's receding power. The TPP follows the script of PNAC, though they are blind to the impending failure of the USA and the TPP will only succeed in pulling the rest of us down as the USA slides into poverty, chaos, and fascism. The bigger they are, they harder they fall; there is no economy bigger than the USA. Their fall will be a real doozy and they will do their best to insure the whole world pays for it. Interesting times, indeed.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @02:09AM
Silicon Valley is over. At this point it still innovative in some parts of software. But most of the really crazy things that SV used to do has long ago moved to china. You can look no further than Alibaba and see that. They give two figs about intellectual property. They are busy hardware bending as fast as they can to knock off 2k of something oddball. Then move onto the next oddball thing. Meanwhile SV is busy look at itself trying to figure out how to 'make unicorns'. Instead of building things people want. They are busy aping hollywood in trying to protect its walled gardens it is quickly building. China is the center of innovation on this planet. Their quality is for shit but then so was japan at one point...