On June 8, the UN General Assembly issued a 17-page “Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS: Intensifying our Efforts to Eliminate HIV/AIDS,” which includes statements related to TRIPS Agreement flexibilities and...
Read MoreA 2008 cable from the US Embassy in Helsinki to Washington describes the efforts of the U.S. Ambassador and his staff to prevent a change to the Finnish reference pricing scheme for medicines. At issue was a provision in...
Read MoreIP Enforcement Roundup YouTube Gives Users Creative Commons Licensing Option; Creates a Creative Commons Library YouTube now offers people who upload video the option of licensing their videos under a Creative Commons...
Read MoreUN Special Rapporteur Frank La Rue has issued a report to the UN General Assembly Human Rights Council stating that “the Internet has become a key means by which individuals can exercise their right to freedom of opinion and...
Read MoreYouTube now offers people who upload video the option of licensing their videos under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which gives others the right to use and to remix the work as long as they give the credit to the...
Read MoreOn May 27, the International Anti-Piracy Caucus published its 2011 Country Watch List, identifying Canada, China, Russia, Spain and Ukraine as countries “that continue to lag in efforts to combat piracy.” The caucus was formed...
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Seven governors have written President Obama asking him to include in the Trans Pacific...
Read MoreIP Enforcement Roundup PROTECT IP Act Clears Senate Judiciary Committee – Sen. Wyden Places a Hold on Bill The Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (S.968) unanimously...
Read MoreIP Enforcement Roundup UK Government-Commissioned Report Finds IP Framework a Barrier to Innovative Industries, Recommends Changes A “Review of Intellectual Property and Growth” by Cardiff University Professor Ian Hargreaves,...
Read MoreOn May 24, 2011, the European Commission unveiled a new initiative to modernize intellectual property protection. Noting that “in the last few years, technological change and, in particular, the growing importance of...
Read MoreSteve Crocker, David Dagon, Dan Kaminsky, Danny McPherson, and Paul Vixie have authored a white paper warning that the DNS filtering requirements of the PROTECT IP Act would be ineffective in reducing piracy, but would harm the...
Read MoreThe Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (S.968) unanimously passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 26. The legislation would allow the Justice Department to obtain...
Read MoreMcKinnsey Global Institute has published “Internet matters: The Net’s sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity.” Among the report’s estimates: Internet activity represents 3.8% of total GDP in a sample...
Read MoreDHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seized more domain names of websites offering unauthorized access to copyrighted material in the fourth round Operation In Our Sites. TorrentFreak has been tracking the...
Read MoreEight civil society groups have released a platform on the intellectual property and health content of the Trans Pacific Partnership. The platform calls ex-officio border measures “inappropriate,” rejects a “one size fits all”...
Read MoreA “Review of Intellectual Property and Growth” by Cardiff University Professor Ian Hargreaves, commissioned by UK Prime Minster Cameron in November 2010, finds that “copyright law has started to act as a regulatory...
Read MoreA group of 28 Senators has written President Obama urging his administration to include “the highest level of IP protections” in the Trans Pacific Partnership. The Senators ask the administration to base the...
Read MoreCalifornia State Senator Alex Padilla has introduced legislation that would authorize law enforcement to search optical disk plants “without providing prior notice or obtaining a warrant.” The police may seize disks and any...
Read MoreIP Enforcement Roundup Senator Leahy Introduces the PROTECT-IP Act Sen. Leahy introduced the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property (PROTECT-IP) Act on May 12, designed to...
Read MoreThe World Health Assembly opens today, bringing together all of the WHO member countries for their annual meeting. The agenda includes a session on WHO’s work concerning substandard medical products, including “information and...
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