[Ante Wessels] The secretly negotiated EU-Japan trade agreement’s intellectual property (IP) chapter limits possibilities for copyright and patent reform. With the agreement, the EU exports part of its IP system. Local rules become binding international rules.
Read More[Reposted from blog.ffii.org] The following is an excerpt from the full working paper Multilateral Investment Court Assessment Obscures Social and Environmental Impacts, available here. Copyright does not work well in the...
Read More[Foundation for a Free Internet Infrastructure, Link, (CC-BY)] New Zealand has published the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Ongoing analysis, subject to updates: ISDS Investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS)...
Read More[Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, Link (CC-BY)] The European Commission has published its investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) reform proposal for the EU-US trade agreement under negotiation (TTIP)....
Read More[Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, Link, CC-BY-SA)]Today the German Pirate party published a leaked version of the intellectual property (IP) rights chapter of the EU – Canada trade agreement (CETA), version as...
Read More[Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, Link (CC-BT-SA)] With other representatives of civil society organisations and business stakeholders, I spent an afternoon at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs talking about...
Read More[Ante Wessells, FFII, Link (CC-BY-SA)] I just made a personal submission to the Public Consultation on the review of the EU copyright rules. I used the You can fix copyright website. Very handy, thanks! I added an attachment,...
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