[csaa-forum] Swinburne CTI/Law seminar: Mon 31 August, ''The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Copyright Law, the Creative Industries and Internet Freedom' - Dr Matthew Rimmer

[Angela Daly]

Centre for Transformative Innovation &

Swinburne Law School - Seminar



The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Copyright Law, the Creative Industries and
Internet Freedom



Dr Matthew Rimmer

Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, QUT




The Centre for Transformative Innovation and Swinburne Law School cordially
invite you to a seminar on The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Copyright Law,
the Creative Industries and Internet Freedom presented by Dr Matthew Rimmer.



Date: Monday 31st August

Registration: 5:30 PM

Event: 6:00 – 7:30 PM

Location: Library Conference Room, Level 3, Hawthorn Campus Library

Please click here <mwadams at swin.edu.au?subject=RSVP:%20TPP> to RSVP

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a highly secretive trade agreement
being negotiated between the US and eleven Pacific Rim countries, including
Australia.  Having obtained a fast-track authority from the United States
Congress, US President Barack Obama is keen to finalise the deal. A number
of chapters will affect the creative industries and internet freedom –
including the intellectual property chapter, the investment chapter, and
the electronic commerce chapter.



Legacy copyright industries have pushed for longer and stronger copyright
protection throughout the Pacific Rim. A draft of the intellectual property
chapter of the TPP was leaked by WikiLeaks in November 2013. Julian Assange
warned: ‘If instituted, the TPP’s IP regime would trample over individual
rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual
and creative commons.’ There have been subsequent leaks by WikiLeaks and
Knowledge Ecology International. There have been concerns about how the
regime will affect creative artists – like Brett Gaylor, the documentary
film-maker of Rip! A Remix Manifesto. In addition, there has also been much
controversy over the inclusion of an Investor-State Dispute Settlement
(ISDS) mechanism in the TPP.



Copyright owners and Big IT could deploy investor clauses to challenge
progressive law reforms – such as the adoption of a defence of fair use and
meaningful IT Pricing reforms in Australia. There has also been concern
about the electronic commerce chapter of the TPP. Big IT companies – like
Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft – have been willing to support the
TPP in return for a harmonisation of electronic commerce rules throughout
the Pacific Rim. There has been concern that the regime will undermine
consumer rights, privacy, network neutrality, and open source standards. If
passed, the TPP will be transformative for Australia’s creative artists,
cultural industries, and digital media.



Dr Matthew Rimmer <https://twitter.com/drrimmer> is a Professor of
Intellectual Property and Innovation Law at the Queensland University of
Technology (QUT). He is a leader of the QUT Intellectual Property and
Innovation Law group, and a member of the QUT Digital Media Research Centre
(QUT DMRC). Dr Rimmer has published widely on copyright law and information
technology, patent law and biotechnology, access to medicines, plain
packaging of tobacco products, intellectual property and climate change,
and Indigenous Intellectual Property.





He is currently working on research on intellectual property, the creative
industries, and 3D printing; intellectual property and public health; and
intellectual property and trade, looking at the Trans-Pacific Partnership,
the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, and the Trade in
Services Agreement. His work is archived at SSRN Abstracts and Bepress
Selected Works.
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