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Top Dem Can’t Access Trade Deals; TTIP Gives Corporations Power over Legislation; TPP Prison for File Sharing
Top Democrat Denied Access To Trade Deals. Access to TPP texts is limited to members of Congress and staffers on the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee who have an official security clearance. Hundreds of corporate lobbyists and executives are also given access.
TTIP Negotiations Give Corporations Power Over Legislation. The EC is suggesting limiting the policy space of municipalities and local authorities – though this idea is under fire and might not be part of the EU position, it is a sign that regulatory co-operation could prove to be not only very comprehensive, but outright dangerous to democracy.
TPP: Prison For File Sharing? That’s What Hollywood Wants! The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) poses massive threats to users in a dizzying number of ways. It will force other TPP signatories to accept the United States’ excessive copyright terms of a minimum of life of the author plus 70 years, while locking the US to the same lengths so it will be harder to shorten them in the future.
