Focus on Preventing Blindness in People Living with HIV [MPP Press Release, Link, (CC BY-NC-ND)] The Medicines Patent Pool and Roche today announce an agreement to increase access in developing countries to valganciclovir, a...
Read More//Marco Bellezza, Associate at Portolano Cavallo Law Firm and AnOx 2013 participant, analyzes Italy’s newly released draft regulation on online copyright. [Reposted from the Upenn Center for Global Communication Studies, Link...
Read More[Excerpt from article by Amy Kapczynski in the New England Journal of Medicine] India is known as the “pharmacy of the developing world,” because it supplies much of the world’s demand for affordable, generic drugs. So...
Read More[Treatment Action Campaign, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Dear Ambassador Froman, The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) of South Africa is extremely concerned with recent attempts by the US government to discourage and curb the globe’s...
Read More[by Ernesto, Link (CC-BY)] Finland is the first country in the world in which Parliament will vote on a “fairer” copyright law that has been crowdsourced by the public. The proposal, which obtained the required 50,000 Finnish...
Read More[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] EIFL is delighted to announce a new Spanish version of Copyright for Librarians (CFL), the online open curriculum on copyright law developed jointly with Harvard’s Berkman...
Read MorePress release from Sen. Leahy’s office WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Friday sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) urging the agency to consider using its...
Read More[Daniel Nazer on the EFF’s Deeplinks Blog, Link (CC-BY)] Today EFF joins a coalition of 50 organizations to send a letter to Congress urging the legislature to focus on finding—and passing—effective solutions to patent...
Read More[The following is an excerpt from a UK Intellectual Property Office request for comments on future harmonization of copyright in Europe. The full request for comments is available here.] The European Commission’s communication...
Read MoreFrenchKat, The 1709 Blog, Link, (CC-BY) By decree dated July 8th (yesterday) and published in today’s Official Journal, the French government has severely limited the three-strikes graduated response scheme put in place to...
Read More[Ante Wessells, FFII, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Monday the EU and US will start negotiations on a trade agreement. Today the FFII sent a comment to the EU Commission and the EU Parliament rapporteurs on this agreement, with a focus on...
Read More[Also available as a PDF] International AIDS Society President and President-Elect Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Chris Beyrer today expressed their support for community activists at the IAS 2013 Conference protesting at the...
Read More[Caterine Saez, IP Watch (CC-BY-SA)] Marrakesh, Morocco – The mood was one of celebration at the Marrakesh Palais des Congrès to greet the success of World Intellectual Property Organization negotiators in their attempt to...
Read More[Electronic Information for Libraries, (CC-BY)] In October 2012, Directive 2012/28/EU on certain permitted uses of orphan works (known as the orphan works Directive) was adopted by Member States of the European Union (EU). The...
Read MoreBy John Wonderlich. Reposted from the Sunlight Foundation Blog (CC-BY) The G8 countries today released a new declaration, and with it an Open Data Charter policy paper, which together constitute a significant high-level...
Read More[Reposted from the Afro-Leo blog (CC-BY)] From IP commenttator Chijioke Ifeoma Okorie comes another guest post, this time addressing a sensitive cultural and commercial issue with strong copyright overones: the deployment of...
Read More[by Philippe Aigrain (CC-BY-SA)(Link)] An endless stream of law proposals, soft-law initiatives and free-trade agreements keeps trying to eradicate or prevent the non-market sharing of digital works between individuals. New...
Read MoreIt’s hard to find a person who is pleased with the current shape of the copyright system. In most countries. People who attempt to earn a living from this system also try to have digital monitoring systems work for them....
Read MoreThe following petition has been posted on the White House’s ‘We the People’ site: Less than 1% of printed works globally are accessible to the blind. This is because laws around the world bar printed material...
Read More[La Quadrature du Net (CC-BY-SA)(Link)] In a plenary vote, the European Parliament just adopted a mandate to the European Commission explicitly allowing it to “include strong protection of intellectual property rights (IPR)” in...
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