From: "Cliff Lynch cliff@cni.org" Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 13:50:01 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [192.100.21.30] (account clifford@cni.org [192.100.21.30] verified) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.7) with ESMTPSA id 34482613 for cni-announce@cni.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 13:11:50 -0400 X-Original-Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 12:53:02 -0400 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org X-Original-Message-ID: <20181002125302371803.7a5e9224@cni.org> Subject: Copyright implications of the new North American trade agreement MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: GyazMail version 1.5.19 You have doubtless seen press coverage of the new US, Mexico and Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) that is intended tor replace the existing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There are some significant changes in the intellectual property provisions in this agreement that haven't received much coverage in the general press, but our colleagues at the Association of Research Libraries have made a very helpful analysis available. This can be found at http://policynotes.arl.org/?p=1733 Clifford Lynch Director, CNI