Hatch renews calls for strong copyright protections in NAFTA

As negotiating teams push to wrap up the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation in the coming weeks, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is renewing his calls for the revamped pact to include strong copyright provisions. “In the context of both existing and future trade agreements, the administration must ensure that copyright laws abroad strengthen, rather than create exceptions to, protections for America’s creators and innovators,” Hatch and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) wrote in an April 13 letter...