'Creative' businesses push for modernized copyright provisions in NAFTA

Nineteen business associations in “creative fields” – representing what they call “the core copyright industries” – are pushing for updated copyright provisions in a modernized NAFTA, requesting better protections than those included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In an Aug. 17 letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the businesses say the internet’s “global reach has made copyright protections and enforcement increasingly important to free trade agreements.” Small and medium-sized businesses, as well as individual creators, “are often on the forefront...