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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none" align="center">Centre for
Transformative Innovation &</p>
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School - Seminar</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none" align="center">The
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Copyright Law, the Creative Industries and
Internet Freedom</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none" align="center">Dr Matthew Rimmer</p>
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of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, QUT</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p class="article-content" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:108.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%">Date: Monday 31st August</p>
<p class="article-content" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:108.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%">Registration: 5:30 PM</p>
<p class="article-content" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:108.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%">Event: 6:00 – 7:30 PM</p>
<p class="article-content" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:108.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%">Location: Library Conference Room, Level 3, Hawthorn Campus
Library</p>
<p class="article-content" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:108.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%">Please <a href="mailto:mwadams@swin.edu.au?subject=RSVP:%20TPP">click here</a> to RSVP </p>
<p style="text-align:justify">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. </p>
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<p style="text-align:justify">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. </p>
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<p style="text-align:justify">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.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><a href="https://twitter.com/drrimmer">Dr Matthew Rimmer</a> 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
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<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%">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.</p>
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