Michael Geist

The inclusion of privacy within the TPP has been touted by governments as one of the benefits of the agreement, but the privacy provisions are so weak it's like they are not even there!

The Trouble with the TPP series continues with a surprising and troubling aspect of the intellectual property chapter: the criminalization of trade secret law.

The link between health care and the TPP's intellectual property chapter is easy to spot, but there are other chapters with implications for the issue.

While protection for biologics is not well understood by the public, at issue is billions of dollars and access to cutting-edge medicines.

The TPP patent provision changes are very significant since they lock Canada into extending the term of patent protection, which will ultimately increase health-care costs.

Canada was not an initial participant in the TPP negotiations. The Harper government began working on entry into the TPP in 2009, but it probably shouldn't have.

The Trouble with the TPP series looks at how the TPP treats the interests of Internet rights holders and users completely differently.

The TPP's effort to regulate how Internet providers and hosts address allegations of copyright infringement presents is a major source of trouble.

The copyright term extension in the TPP will have major negative effects on Canada, chief among them restrictions to access, huge costs and no additional incentive for creativity.

The TPP will lock Canada into a "WIPO+" digital lock model that removes the ability to restore flexibility. In other words, the restrictive digital lock rules will be locked into Canadian law.