Many topics are covered in the chapter including DRM and other
‘technical measures’, extended copyright terms, increased penalties for
infringement and ISP liability, the latter with a proposal for “adopting
and reasonably implementing a policy that provides for termination in
appropriate circumstances of the accounts of repeat infringers.”
Reception to the leaked agreement has so far been highly critical.
Knowledge Ecology International notes that the TPP IPR chapter not only
proposes the granting of more patents, expansion of rightsholder
privileges and increased penalties for infringement, but also plans the
creation of intellectual property rights on data.
“The TPP text shrinks the space for exceptions in all types of
intellectual property rights. Negotiated in secret, the proposed text is
bad for access to knowledge, bad for access to medicine, and profoundly
bad for innovation,” KEI concludes.
Burcu Kilic, an intellectual property lawyer with Public Citizen, says
that some of the proposals in the text evoke memories of the
controversial SOPA legislation in the United States.
“The WikiLeaks text also features Hollywood and recording industry
inspired proposals – think about the SOPA debacle – to limit Internet
freedom and access to educational materials, to force Internet providers
to act as copyright enforcers and to cut off people’s Internet access,”
Kilic says.
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