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WikiLeaks Releases Final TPP Chapter Text on Intellectual Property

HeadlineOct 12, 2015

WikiLeaks has released what appears to be the final negotiated text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s intellectual property chapter, after the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations finished negotiating the secret trade pact. The digital rights group Fight for the Future said the final text “confirms advocates’ warnings that this deal poses a grave threat to global freedom of expression and basic access to things like medicine and information.”

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