All of the copyright advisors to the admin on the TPP are from the industry. ALL of them.

[MrModerate]

104. Couldn't disagree more . . .

When something becomes legislation, it's usually too late to change, or at least to change without herculean effort — and at the expense of political capital that could be better spent elsewhere.

As to who other than "those owning it" should be asked about how intellectual property laws are written, how about EVERYONE ELSE? The tradition of intellectual property eventually migrating to the public domain is long respected and a really good idea. These guys are trying to hold onto copywrights on material a full century after the author has died. That's flatly nuts.

As to not negotiating drug prices, that too is something that showed up in bills that people didn't pay enough attention to before they were signed, and now the pharmaceutical companies have just about crashed the healthcare system. I think looking at some of those bills before they were passed would have done us a world of good.