Remember that the TPP will enact new laws and penalties related to copyright, affecting 800 million people. First they came for the librarians... Unless there is public opposition, the TPP will likely be voted into effect during the US post-election lame duck period. Instead, the TPP can be made into a visible 2016 election issue, to forestall post-election flip-flops.<p>The US Copyright Office has a progressive report [1] on Orphan Works, a positive example of practical steps negotiated among a wide range of business and civil society stakeholders. This example can be expanded to other areas of copyright law. Instead, the TPP favors a subset [2] of corporate interests, at the expense of competing corporate and public groups who were excluded from deliberations. We can do better.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/" rel="nofollow">http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/how-tpp-will-affect-you-and-your-digital-rights" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/how-tpp-will-affect-yo...</a>
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How hard is it to nullify a publisher's copyright claim (which has been consented by the authors), based on the fact that they do none of the work, thus indirectly appropriating public money?