Canada & Korea Show Trade Treaties Can Skip Copyright Rule Changes 35
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."
