The TPP would (it appears) ban a simple legal change that would reduce the danger of republishing many copyrighted works.

The article ends with an absurd statement that this "might not be enough for me to want to throw out the whole deal" — as if there were something good in it! But the Treacherous Plutocratic Poison is nothing but bads. It is a collection of wrongs proposed by the big businesses that helped write it.

As for the orphan works, what we should do is legalize sharing copies of all published works, then let people go to work on them.