On 2/4/2016 6:59 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
On Feb 4, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
Quite a while ago I went to talk (I think it may have been at an NZSA
conference) given by the great Ross Ihaka. I forget the details but my vague
recollection was that it involved a technique for automatic choice of some sort
of smoothing parameter involved in a graphical display.
Identifying discontinuities:
https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Curves.pdf
http://www.google.com/patents/US6704013
TI can now own analytic geometry if they file enough patents.
And TI could therefore under TPP demand that any Internet Service
Provider remove any R content (or R generated content) that they claimed
(correctly or otherwise) infringed on their intellectual property,
without a court order, and with common citizens having only slightly
more ability to seek redress than the British peasants had when their
nobility got King John of England to sign the Magna Carta on 15 June 1215?
And, of course, this is only one concrete example.
More relevant, TPP might prohibit any government from promoting
the use of open-source software, because it could deprive a for-profit
company of income, and they could therefore sue for lost profit under
the Investor-State Dispute Settlement Settlement (ISDS) provisions of
the TPP or other "free trade" agreements like NAFTA. This is hardly far
fetched: Last Dec. 21, the U.S. Congress decided that consumers in the
U.S. did not have the right to know the origins of the meat they buy
under NAFTA (Scott Smith, "Congress repeals country of origin labeling
for meat", United Press International, Dec. 21, 2015 at 10:12 AM,
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/12/21/Congress-repeals-country-of-origin-labeling-for-meat/3241450709277/).
Spencer Graves
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