Wikileaks docs reveal Trans-Pacific Partnership could out copyright infringers

Pirates beware: ISPs may soon be legally obligated to reveal your identity, thanks to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Wikileaks this week published a leaked copy of the intellectual property chapter of the sprawling agreement, which includes a mandate: Every nation must set up a way for copyright owners to find out the identity of copyright violators.

Each Party shall provide procedures…enabling a copyright owner who has made a legally sufficient claim of copyright infringement to obtain expeditiously from an Internet Service Provider information in the provider’s possession identifying the alleged infringer,” the leaked document states.

The document also states that every country should establish a system that forces copyright violators to pay up, saying damages should be “adequate to compensate for the injury the right holder has suffered because of an infringement of that person’s intellectual property right.”

The treaty, nominally a free trade agreement, lowers trade barriers between 12 Pacific Rim nations:Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam. But it goes well beyond trade into areas such as intellectual property and agriculture – two fields that tend to prompt domestic controversy virtually everywhere. Negotiations have been ongoing since 2008. For the full article click here 

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