In an intriguing follow-up to last year’s leaking of the draft TPPA intellectual property chapter, last week the negotiating text of the controversial TPPA investment chapter was leaked to the public by Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. The leaked provisions require states party to the agreement to provide a wide range of privileges to overseas investors. These include;

Last week during budget estimates, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade answered questions on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.

A couple of years ago, struggling to keep up with university assessment deadlines, I discovered Google Books. I discovered Google Books because the one copy of the book that I, and 150 other students studying nationalism in Europe, needed to finish our essays by the end of the week had been borrowed by one of those mystically organised students months earlier before the beginning of the course. I discovered Google Books, when, turning in desperation to the National Library’s holdings, I found that the copies of the book held at the NLA were already reserved.

In the aftermath of the iiNet case, as we wait to see whether content industries will pursue a legislative response, we thought it would be worthwhile to look at some examples of graduated response schemes (also known as ‘three-strike policies’), one of the proposed methods of dealing with unauthorised file sharing.