<story><title>New North American Trade Deal Has Bad News for Canadian Copyright</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/new-north-american-trade-deal-has-bad-news-canadian-copyright</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mwfunk</author><text>I wonder if copyright extensions are exhibit A for the negative impact of money on politics. Copyright holders have a motivation to lobby for extensions but no big players have a motivation to lobby against them. Hence, both US parties are weirdly on board with continually extending the reach of copyright and IP laws in general. If there were no invisible hand constantly guiding politicians toward extending copyright, surely at least some politicians would have different views on it. It doesn’t help that it’s an issue that is so opaque to the general population, so there’s no popular opposition to it either. I love the EFF but when it comes to money and lobbying power they are much less influential over elected officials than the combined powers of most of the entertainment industries plus much of the tech industry.</text></comment>
<story><title>New North American Trade Deal Has Bad News for Canadian Copyright</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/new-north-american-trade-deal-has-bad-news-canadian-copyright</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mncharity</author><text>For those missing context, both copyright extension and FOSTA &amp;#x27;reign in the internet&amp;#x27; are Hollywood.&lt;p&gt;When the US dropped TPP, Canada took up leadership of the process as CPTPP.  TPP was called two treaties in one, though not often in the US press.  Canada kept the free trade part, and &amp;quot;postponed&amp;quot; the Hollywood copyright, pharma patents, and corporate ISDS.  But what&amp;#x27;s the point of being a hegemon if you can&amp;#x27;t provide one-stop shopping for arm-twisted world-wide regulatory capture?</text></comment>