Nothing in this Agreement prevents a Party from determining whether and under what conditions the exhaustion of intellectual property rights applies under its legal system [13].
Article QQ.G.10 has the following for Australians:
US/AU: For purposes of greater certainty, no Party is required to impose liability under Articles 9 and 10 for actions taken by that Party or a third party acting with the authorization or consent of that Party. Negotiator's Note: CA seeks clarification of this footnote.
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Basically, most Australians have watched whilst they were considered second class citizens and price gouged by U.S. corporations who don't pay any tax in Australia, and in a rare moment of insight our government forced this through.
I'm not sure what sort of victory you are talking about. Yes, each country can determine the precise expiration dates of, say, copyrights... but the TPP obliges it to be at least 70 years. And yes, Australia can choose not to criminalize Australia itself deciding to violate TPMs, but they are obliged to criminalize Australian citizens violating TPMs.
So Australia can break TPMs itself, and Australia can wiggle a few days here or there in determining just how long copyright protection lasts. So what?
PayPal dropped support for a Canadian VPN provider. Will PayPal continue to support Australian VPN providers, since AU gov permits geoblocking, even against Netflix ToS and the wishes of content rightsholders?
Nothing in this Agreement prevents a Party from determining whether and under what conditions the exhaustion of intellectual property rights applies under its legal system [13].
Article QQ.G.10 has the following for Australians:
US/AU: For purposes of greater certainty, no Party is required to impose liability under Articles 9 and 10 for actions taken by that Party or a third party acting with the authorization or consent of that Party. Negotiator's Note: CA seeks clarification of this footnote.
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Basically, most Australians have watched whilst they were considered second class citizens and price gouged by U.S. corporations who don't pay any tax in Australia, and in a rare moment of insight our government forced this through.