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Canada & Korea Show Trade Treaties Can Skip Copyright Rule Changes

Posted by timothy on from the anything-you-don't-put-your-mind-to dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Canada and South Korea announced agreement on a comprehensive trade agreement earlier today. Michael Geist reports that the intellectual property chapter is significant for what it does not include. Unlike many other trade deals — particularly those involving the U.S., European Union, and Australia — the Canada-South Korea deal is content to leave domestic intellectual property rules largely untouched. Instead, the approach is to reaffirm the importance of intellectual property and ensure that both countries meet their international obligations, but not to use trade agreements as a backdoor mechanism to increase IP protections. That means no copyright term extension, no three-strikes and you're out rules, and increase to pharma patents."

4 of 35 comments (clear)

  1. Sorry, you lost the hockey game by Piata · · Score: 2, Informative

    You owe us beer and get to keep Bieber until the next Winter Olympics.

  2. Re:Knowing Harper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I love you guys (sarcastically). This government does something nice, and you still spew vitriol. They try to increase competition in the telecom space, and you still find something to complain about.

  3. Re:That would be because it's *Canada* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...as opposed to Harper's 'omnibus' 400 page budgets that end up burning libraries?

    http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/7058/196/

    http://bibliocracy-now.tumblr.com/post/74860540852/order-paper-reveals-dfo-library-situation-far-worse

  4. Products by DarthVain · · Score: 2

    Seeing as most of the trade seems to consists of things like "Wood" and "Food" I doubt IP is really a big deal for either.