A leak in the Trans-Pacific Partnership copyright agreement says that fair use or fair dealing in the US and Australia is subject to be limited, while the other nations like New Zealand, Malaysia and others have an option on limiting fair use in those countries.
Sadly, this does put the practice of making fair use of copyrighted materials in jeopardy, especially on sites like YouTube and Blogger.
In Japan, this fall (2012) their revision of copyright law may not take fair use into account, and will likely treat all infringement cases as criminal cases rather then civil, and convict those who uses the country’s intellectual properties without consent. So far Japan has gotten more brazen in their copyright/piracy fight on the Internet and in their streets and cities. The country may or may not be a part of the TPP, but it may serve as an example of things to come to the other nations.
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