Chile Threatens To Drop Out Of TPP Negotiations Due To Ridiculous US Demands About IP

from the backlash dept

Tue, May 15th 2012 12:29am — Mike Masnick

You may remember that some officials in Chile recently began wondering what benefit they would get from agreeing to be a part of TPP. It seems that view is going even further. There was just another negotiating round and it appears (as we've expected, but don't know for sure because the US negotiators, led by Ron Kirk refuse to be even remotely transparent) that the US's strong position on IP is scaring off Chile. A high level government official is now saying that the country is considering pulling out of the TPP negotiations unless the US "significantly moderates its intellectual property demands." The article suggests that Chile is willing to move forward with much of the rest of the agreement, but the ridiculous USTR position on IP is giving it reason to be concerned.

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Alana (profile), 15 May 2012 @ 12:38am

IP in my mind will forever translate to Imaginary Property.
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- Anonymous Monkey (profile), 15 May 2012 @ 1:44am
  
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  NO kidding, it's all in the mind anyway :)
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- Anonymous Coward, 15 May 2012 @ 4:52am
  
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  me too. It's the term I always use. ( i don't believe in it either , like unicorns )
  
  Also of use...
  Infinite copies = literally worthless
  
  anywayBack to the topic: http://tpp2012.com/
  
  Helping this vid go viral would be a start
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SOokUdKYcM
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- Anonymous Coward, 15 May 2012 @ 4:57am
  
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  Imaginary Profitables is more accurate. The only people who believe in IP believe hoarding it will make them rich.
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- gorehound (profile), 15 May 2012 @ 5:09am
  
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  +1
  Good One.
  MAFIAA Lick My Corgi Dog's Butt Clean.
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  - Anonymous Coward, 15 May 2012 @ 9:33am
    
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    Why torture your dog like that?
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clinton (profile), 15 May 2012 @ 2:19am

I'm sure more money will ease the concerns.
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- TtfnJohn (profile), 15 May 2012 @ 3:14pm
  
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  More money from whom?
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Anonymous Coward, 15 May 2012 @ 2:57am

a lot more countries need to listen to Chile and have the balls to drop out as well. why would any country want to continuously do whatever to make things better in/for the USA whilst doing nothing positive or worsening things in your own country? if people are so stupid, they shouldn't be in the position of negotiating in the first place!
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- Anonymous Coward, 15 May 2012 @ 4:09am
  
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  Economic leverage, the US once had the monopoly on the biggest market on the planet, well there are other markets now, emergent markets that seem a lot more friendly than the US. All countries should do business by proxy with the US, not directly and remove themselves from being targets to economic sanctions.
  
  The US could do a lot more harm to others if they didn't do what they asked but now there are some options.
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- Jorge, 13 Aug 2013 @ 10:33am
  
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  Chile is in a position where we already have trade agreements with almost all the countries joining the tpp
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Anonymous Coward, 15 May 2012 @ 4:47am

http://tpp2012.com/

Help make the video go viral for EVERYONE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SOokUdKYcM
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Michael, 15 May 2012 @ 5:01am

Sorry, I couldn't stand the music in that video. There are better ways to get the message across.
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- TtfnJohn (profile), 15 May 2012 @ 3:36pm
  
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  Old Jackson Five songs sung at the top of the singers range so there's nothing left when she needs power in her voice just isn't doing it for me either.
  
  And somehow China and Canada are painted in as if either is at the table but neither is although for different reasons. I'm not sure about the EU and Russia either.
  
  For now I think the EU has their hands full with ACTA and deciding whether or not to flush that down the toilet on one hand and whether or not they'll need to foreclose on and repossess Greece.
  
  As someone else has mentioned there are now bigger consumer and industrial markets than the United States so the clout the American government used to have just isn't there now.
  
  Chile has been saying this for a while now. The demands for IP extremism coming from the United States are just too high. Perhaps even more telling is the remark that if they could get back to just the trade issues TPP would have been signed, sealed and delivered a long time ago. Again, the stumbling bloc is the American insistence on draconian IP laws and provisions.
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ROFL, 15 May 2012 @ 7:05am

Alright you know there is a problem when Chile tells America to fuck off.
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Mary, 16 May 2012 @ 6:56am

Sadly Colombia didn't refuse US demands, so now we have worse laws than most countries.

It's good that at least Chile isn't agreeing to those demands.
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