[GTALUG] The Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Threatens Innovation

[David Mason]

Of the 2 articles, I think the Globe is closer to the mark.

I largely trust openmedia.ca on this and other IP issues, and they've been
VERY strongly against it.  Most recently:
https://openmedia.org/en/tpp-long-road-fairer-copyright

../Dave

On 27 December 2015 at 23:57, John Moniz <john.moniz at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> On 12/27/2015 11:04 PM, Alex Volkov wrote:
>
>> Ugh. The article starts with good ol' jingoism and then proceed not to
>> give a single citation of the TPP,  condensing to just bunch of
>> paraphrasing taken out of context. Not that the TPP doesn't have its
>> problems but this is really not a good piece of journalism.
>>
>> Planet money gave much better and way less panicky explanation of the TPP
>> --
>> http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/06/455055023/episode-662-omg-tpp
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>>
> Reading the comments it seems that many people didn't think very highly of
> Planet Money's journalism on this piece either.
>
> On 26/12/15 08:17 PM, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> Scary stuff actually.
>>>
>>> The agreement is to benefit existing corporations and stifle new
>>> initiatives.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/trans-pacific-partnership-is-a-wonderful-idea-for-china/article27939142/
>>>
>>>
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