WEBINAR: Carys Craig and Bob Tarantino – COVID-19 Lessons for Culture, Learning, and Copyright Law

[November 6, 2020 | 10:00am EST] Carys Craig and Bob Tarantino will present their working paper, “An Hundred Stories in Ten Days: COVID-19 Lessons for Culture, Learning, and Copyright Law.” The article reflects on how the cultural and educative practices that have burgeoned under quarantine conditions shed new light on a longstanding problem: the need to recalibrate the copyright system to better serve its purposes in the face of changing social and technological circumstances. Click here to register for the event, and to download the paper.

Other upcoming webinars:

  • November 13: Martin Senftleben – Protecting Creator Remuneration Through Copyright: Lessons from Germany and the Netherlands for South Africa. Link.
  • November 15: Jean-Frédéric Morin – Presentation of the TRIPS+ Preferential Trade Agreement Dataset. Link. 

Creative Imitation at the Front of Pharma Biotechnology Opportunities: Some Lessons from Late Late Industrialization Countries

[Pablo Lavarello and Sebastián Sztulwark] Given that high-cost biopharmaceutical drug patents have started to expire since the early 2000s, biotechnology opens up opportunities for developing countries to pursue an upgrading process by entering the sector as early imitators. Developing these opportunities was transformed on priority needs of health systems since the outbreak of COVID-19. Certain developing countries have advanced in a strategy of imitating biotechnological reference drugs once their patents have expired, opening a possibility for a catching up process. Click her for more.

Injunctive Relief After the WTO’s Refusal to Adopt the India-South Africa COVID-19 Waiver Proposal

[Joshua Sarnoff] As the world confronts the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WTO’s TRIPS Council has rejected the proposal by India and South Africa for the WTO to temporarily waive the intellectual property rights requirements of the TRIPS Agreement in regard to copyrights, industrial designs, patents, and trade secrets. Notwithstanding, countries will continue to exercise TRIPS flexibilities in regard to IPRs that affect their ability to respond to COVID-19. Click here for more.

European Copyright and Human Rights in the Digital Sphere

[Christina Angelopoulos] Abstract: For a long time, copyright and human rights took little account of each other. The emergence of digital technology, however, has forced a more intimate interaction. This interaction raises questions about both the nature of copyright and its relationship with other interests: is copyright a human right and, if so, how can clashes with other human rights be resolved? In the European context, the answer to the first question has so far been ‘yes’, raising the stakes as to the second. Both the CJEU and ECtHR have approached the matter as one requiring a ‘balance’. Click here for more.