Leaked TPP agreement requires member countries to honor copyright takedowns

Oct09

by Sindy Cator on October 9, 2015 at 2:40 pm

Wikileaks has released what it says is the final text of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a “free trade” deal between the United States and eight other countries. The text contains an interesting provision in the Intellectual Property Rights chapter regarding ISPs and their obligations to copyright holders. Under the TPP, an ISP is defined quite broadly: For the purposes of this Section, “ Internet service provider” means: (a) A provider of online services for the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user’s By that…