The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade agreement, which seeks to regulate copyright law, intermediary liability, and technological protection measures. The United States Government under President Barack Obama sought to export key features of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998...

This chapter considers a number of key chapters of the TPP relating to access to genetic resources, informed consent and benefit-sharing. Part 2 looks at the TPP chapter on Intellectual Property and focuses on access to genetic resources, informed consent and benefit-sharing. In particular, this...

This article considers the radical, sweeping changes to Australian copyright law wrought by the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement 2004 (AUSFTA). It contends that the agreement will result in a "piracy of the public domain". Under this new regime, copyright owners will be able to...

The mega-regional agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, put forward a radical model for the regulation of intellectual property and access to medicines across the Pacific Rim. The trade agreement makes reference to the framework established by the TRIPS Agreement 1994, the Doha Declaration...