The White House’s office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) recently requested comments from the public as part of the process of developing a new Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property...
Read MoreInfojustice Roundup Comments Received by the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator on the Next “Strategic Plan” The White House’s office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC)...
Read MoreIn a recent interviewwith Le Nouvel Observateur, French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti said that she will reduce funding HADOPI – the French agency that enforces online copyright through a graduated response:...
Read MoreShortly after the leak of the U.S. proposal for limitations and exceptions to copyright, Australian observers have criticized their country’s support of it. A statement by Green Party Senator Scott Ludlam was highly...
Read MoreMalaysian government officials and civil society have recently spoken out against the TRIPS-Plus provisions in the Trans Pacific Partnership. Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai recently told the Sun that “We are against...
Read MoreInfojustice Roundup U.S. Proposal for Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright in the TPP Over the weekend, the U.S. proposal for limitations and exceptions to copyright in the Trans Pacific Partnership was leaked by KEI, and is...
Read MoreKnowledge Ecology International has posted the leaked text of the U.S. proposal for limitations and Exceptions to copyright in the TPP negotiations: http://keionline.org/node/1516
Read MoreInfojustice Roundup WIPO Concludes SCCR Talks on Limitations and Exceptions, and on Broadcaster Rights The WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) concluded its 24th session last week. Activists...
Read MoreThe WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) concluded its 24th session last week. Activists supporting the treaty for limitations and exceptions for visually impaired persons were disappointed with moves...
Read MoreThis blog is a summary of a July 25 satellite event at the XIX International AIDS Conference titled “Improving Access and Innovation in HIV Treatment: The Medicines Patent Pool and Other Approaches.” The event was hosted by the...
Read MoreInfojustice Roundup WIPO 24th Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Debates The 24th Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights is currently underway at WIPO, which has posted meeting documents here, and a...
Read MoreThis blog is a summary of a panel titled “The Future of Affordable Antiretroviral Treatment: Trends in Patents and Price” at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC on July 25, 2012. The authors’ presentations...
Read MoreOn Tuesday, July 25, Chief TPP negotiator Barbara Weisel briefed civil society on the state of the negotiations. The briefing covered all areas of the negotiations (not just IPR). Weisel told the civil society audience that...
Read MoreSenator Wyden has again written the Obama Administration insisting that ACTA cannot be implemented in the United States absent Congressional ratification. In a letter to State Department Attorney Harold Koh, he disagrees with...
Read MoreNegotiations over a treaty on limitations and exceptions to copyright for the visually impaired are concluding at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. The proposed treaty would reduce copyright barriers...
Read MoreInfojustice Roundup WIPO 24th Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Debates The 24th Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights is currently underway at WIPO, which has posted meeting documents here,...
Read MoreThe U.S. Trade Representative has announced that it is seeking public comments in written form “on all elements related to Canada’s [and Mexcio’s] participation in the TPP negotiations in order to develop U.S....
Read MoreIn advance of the XIX International AIDS Conference, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk wrote a blog about the Trans Pacific Partnership and access to medicine. He stresses that his office has received input on IPR issues from...
Read MoreIn Germany, nightclubs will face higher royalty payments when a new policy by the collecting society Gesellschaft für Musikalische Aufführung (GEMA) takes effect on January 1. The new fees will be based on the size of the venue...
Read MoreLast night, Congresswoman Barbara Lee introduced the Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Act of 2012 (HR 6138). One section of the bill aims at protecting the use of flexible intellectual property policies allowing access to medicines...
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