LA Times: What’s the rush?

Copyright dinosaurs are getting on Congress's case to push through the secretive TPP. Article by Don Lee for the LA Times The U.S. entertainment industry is joining in a last-ditch push to sway wavering Democratic lawmakers to back President Obama's pro-trade agenda, as his hard-fought Pacific Rim trade deal heads to an uncertain end game

Copyright dinosaurs are getting on Congress's case to push through the secretive TPP.

Article by Don Lee for the LA Times

The U.S. entertainment industry is joining in a last-ditch push to sway wavering Democratic lawmakers to back President Obama's pro-trade agenda, as his hard-fought Pacific Rim trade deal heads to an uncertain end game.

Hollywood and the music industry see the potential for lucrative enhanced-copyright protections in the 12-nation trade pact known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

With congressional action nearing on a bill that would clear the way for Obama to win passage of the agreement, snowballing numbers of free-speech groups and Internet activists are stepping up their campaign to foil one of the legislative priorities of Obama's second term.

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