Article 149GH Back-room revisions to TPP sneakily criminalize fansubbing & other copyright grey zones

Back-room revisions to TPP sneakily criminalize fansubbing & other copyright grey zones

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Cory Doctorow
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When the text of the secretly negotiated Trans Pacific Partnership was released, we were warned that it hadn't been "legally scrubbed" and checked for translation errors, but the new text that's been posted to the New Zealand government's website contains tiny revisions that sneakily increase the criminal penalties countries must impose on people who commit copyright infringement. (more")

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