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[–] Lodley ago
First and most importantly, the TPP is not done. Everything you cite is speculation based on drafts proposed by one party or another.
No it doesn't, the only part the EFF quoted directly stated that "fair use" was important to the public good.
The EFF didn't bother to quote the original document and I didn't find that language when I skimmed it, so I'm going to say that is also not true.
Now we are back at the start, wiki-leaks is saying, without evidence, that the TPP will cause bad things to happen that haven't happened with previous ISDS clauses. We have those clauses now and corporations don't "the same level of sovereignty as entire countries" so there is no reason to think adding Japan will cause that.
That is for the draft documents only, not the finished treaty that congress will have to pass. Again this is standard for international negotiations, they don't want draft documents to come out right when the final version because that would confuse people. If people have an actual objection they should state it instead of being intentionally dense and claiming something that says one thing means another.