10 links of sociopolitical issues discussion
(TPPA
Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement)
How TPP affects NZ artists and what the US wants our police to do next
http://creativefreedom.org.nz/2012/how-tpp-affects-nz-artists-and-what-the-us-wants-our-police-to-do-next/
This article is very simple and talks about a single important issue such as;
"Allowing copyright holders the ability to ban parallel imports of
copyrighted material (eg DVDs), denying New Zealanders the right to
purchase overseas content"
And it also explains that the USA require to accept this agreement so the NZ police could arrest who breaks copy rights which wasn't illegal before.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
http://tppinfo.org/
The article explains that the proposal of USA joining TPPA included the legislation relate copy rights. Few countries considers that "Excessive copyright rights and enforcement adversely affect that ability
of creators to create content, the ability of technology companies to
make innovative products, and that ability of users to use content in
new ways."
TPP secrets: Obama covertly granting more power to multinational corporations
http://rt.com/usa/news/tpp-obama-corporations-trade-725/
The idea of the TPPA was to reduce the trade barriers between countries so the trades (Import and Export) could be much efficient and beneficial. Of course the "Free Trade", there mustn't be any power by political which affect positive on any particular companies. However, Obama secretly promised multinational corporation could grant more power towards trade against foreign countries.
US Trans-Pacific Partnership proposal leaked
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/11/us_tpp_proposal_leaked/As USA wish to join the TPPA, it offered a list of what USA want to add in the TPPA agreement. however, that secret proposal was leak and it says that "in some interpretations, override consumer protections that already
exist in individual nations (parallel importation rights of CDs, for
example, seems under threat were the US proposal adopted)."
