News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Parent comment

Re:Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement by rtpg on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @01:31PM (#6727258)
> [NZ/BN/MY/VN/CA/JP propose; US/AU/SG/MX oppose: The term of protection of a work, performance or phonogram shall be determined according to each Party's domestic law and the international agreements to which each Party is a party.]

On a sidenote, wouldn't it be great if we could at least get unified copyright law? From the draft it seems like the US is pushing more towards that

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement by wonderyak on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @02:39PM (#6727845)
Not when its coupled with things like Corporations being able to sue governments for 'loss of potential future profits' for policy decisions. That is incredibly dangerous.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement by rodgerd on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @01:41PM (#6727349)
Not on US terms, it wouldn't be.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement by spunky on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @02:17PM (#6727638)
The US copyright system is broken.
[ Parent | on HN ]