TPP, RCEP and the Future of Copyright Norm-setting in the Asian Pacific

Abstract

The past decade has seen two mega-regional intellectual property norm-setting exercises focusing on countries in the Asian Pacific region. The first was part of the effort to establish the Trans-Pacific Partnership² (TPP), a mega-regional pact that was intended to cover ‘40% of global GDP [gross domestic product] and some 30% of worldwide trade in both goods and services’.³ The negotiations surrounding this partnership ran from 15 March 2010 until the signing of the final agreement on 4 February 2016. In January 2017, shortly after the inauguration of the Trump Administration, the United States withdrew from the TPP, thereby placing the