Sadly among the worst aspects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership TPP (and also the TTIP) is the promotion of the copyright cartel's agenda along with very bad patent policy. Almost no one with political power is even talking about these huge problems with it.
I support free trade. I don't support the politically motivated trade agreements that impose the USA political donors' wishes on citizens of the USA and other countries.
We need to take back science from the closed-science journals. Historically journals were useful (before the internet). With the advent of the internet instead of maintaining the mission they started with (to aid the spread of scientific knowledge) the journals sought to maximize their profit and their own pay and jobs at the expense of sharing scientific knowledge with the world.
That’s the basic concept behind a pilot program sponsored by IBM (Charts) and other companies, which the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office appears poised to green-light. The project would apply an advisory version of the wiki approach to the patent-approval process.
