HI Jan and all,
Thanks for this notification of the blog post from the EFF. The post mentions the TPP, but one thing it does not mention about TPP -- as I recall -- was that there was a provision that (in some cases) prevented litigants from bringing suits against corporations for copyright violations. Despite the bland language of the current negotations (as articulated in the blog post), I bet the U.S. will try to do something similar to protect corporations, particularly as the U.S. approaches 2019 when materials published in 1923 will finally go into the public domain.
It may be worth remembering that, despite 95 years of copyright protection in the U.S. Mexico is slightly worse: 100 years of protection. At one of the sessions at Wikimania I asked someone who keeps abreast of Canadian copyright issues whether the Canadian Parliament is being influenced by the U.S. for longer protections. The answer was no, that Canadian politicians seem satisfied with what's currently in place and that's there's currently no interest in opening the issue.