The TPP is not grinding to a halt, it's close to being finalized and signed

Regardless what Techdirt wrote that TPP is grinding to a halt, the title of the article is putting us off-guard. As for me, I'm always vigilant for what's coming as Malaysia Mustapa and Japan's Amari have both announced that they're making progress and about to set a date for a ministerial meeting to finalize the TPP.

And when that date comes, the TPP will soon be finalized and signed at the end of the meeting before the Canadian elections and could be passed by Congress immediately before the Presidential election with no chance of revealing what's in it for the next 4 years and like I said in my last post Fast Track only applies to future trade agreements.

Thinking that the TPP coming to a halt is putting us off-guard as negotiators were secretly negotiating the TPP over the phone.

Another issue that the TPP would prevent the Copyright Office from limiting statutory damages for works that aren't registered. It's called Orphan works.

Under the US Copyright office's proposal, works that have been created without being registered, just a reminder for those who want to use someone else's work who have to check the database if the creator of the work is found or not. Statutory damage of the infringement of the creator's work that is unregistered would be limited or nullified means that the work whom the creator made it, the infringer now owns it. But under the TPP,  statutory damages for the infringed work is $150,000. Sounds good for the creators who uploads their created work to DeviantArt would want it, now do they?

Update: It is now confirmed that the conclusion of the TPP reported by Trade Representative Jack Lew is under way.

Update 2: The Final Ministerial Meeting has been set from September 26-30. Despite resources saying about Obama having trouble getting the TPP passed in Congress is just not accurate. Again, The TPP will be passed quickly and the provision in Fast Track that requires the President to make trade agreements available to the public within 60 days before signature only applies to future trade agreements