Leaked TPP Chapter Exposes Sweet Deals for Big Pharma and US Bully Tactics

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/16/leaked-tpp-chapter-exposes-sweet-deals-big-pharma-and-us-bully-tactics



The leaked rules "are likely to affect access to important medicines such as cancer drugs and will also weaken the requirements needed to patent genes in plants, which will impact small farmers and boost the dominance of large agricultural corporations like Monsanto," according to WikiLeaks.

Leaked TPP Chapter Exposes Sweet Deals for Big Pharma and US Bully Tactics
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Thursday, October 16, 2014

WikiLeaks on Thursday released a second updated version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Intellectual Property Rights chapter, charging that it will hinder affordable access to medicines globally, increase online surveillance, and impinge on civil liberties while benefiting Big Pharma and other corporate interests.

"Our first impression in reading the document is the extent to which the United States has sought hundreds of changes in intellectual property norms, some small and subtle, others blunt and aggressive, nearly of all of which favor big corporate right holders, and undermine the public’s freedom to use knowledge," declared James Love of Knowledge Ecology International.

The TPP is the world's largest economic trade agreement that will, if it goes into effect, encompass more than 40 percent of the world's GDP. The IP chapter covers topics from pharmaceuticals, patent registrations, and copyright issues to digital rights.

The trade pact has been mostly negotiated in secret, with only select government officials and corporations able to see the text. To that end, WikiLeaks has released several draft chapters. A previous draft of the IP chapter was leaked in November 2013.

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Here's the section in question: http://wikileaks.com/tpp-ip2/

[peacebird]

1. Is THIS why we have ebola panic covering the news? To prevent cover of REAL NEWS?

Especially real news that the mega corps don't want us hearing about til it is law (and then presumably too late?)

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. So rumors of draft documents is "real news"?

[Doctor_J]

3. Medicare part D and ACA aren't enough for PHARMA??

I can't believe that those two windfalls don't make them permanently and perfectly content.