Last Chance to stop the FTA
The Labor Party is meeting tomorrow to decide to support or not support the Free Trade Agreement with the US.
It is not too late to send a message to Mark Latham to ask him to stop the legislation in the senate. Go to the NoFTA website and send an email to Mark Latham.
Why don’t we need this agreement? See my posts here, here, here, here and here.
But in a few words: No more multi-region DVD players. More money for Disney and other US companies by extending their copyrights. Interference in our pharmaceutical benefits system which will make our drugs more expensive. Ties us closer to the US rather than regional trading partners.
Oh really? What about the FTA with Thailand that Australia recently signed?
This is really about sovereignty. When this comes into force we won’t be able to hold a plebiscite on whether to allow parallel imports of CDs because it will be effectively illegal by proxy. Our laws will be “slaved” to another country and out of our control.
Thanks Jack, you are onto it there. There was also worrying stuff in the week concerning the fact that without some ‘fair’ use rights in copyright law (which we don’t have) the FTA probably makes it a *criminal* offence to record something with the VCR to time shift it. Criminal, not civil. Like go to jail and get a record!
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