European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip has responded to Members of the European Parliament who expressed concern with the Commission’s consideration of ancillary copyright for press publishers as part of its...
Read MoreAs readers of this blog are well aware, one of the most controversial issues in the Trans Pacific Partnership was the length of data exclusivity for biologic drugs. The U.S. sought a twelve year period (which would be consistent...
Read MoreOfficials from the U.S. Trade Representative’s office have been signaling to businesses unhappy with the deal finalized last year that they may win extra concessions from TPP partner countries through the implementation...
Read MoreA group of 1,525 civil society groups have signed onto a letter sponsored by the Citizen’s Trade Campaign urging Members of Congress to “to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a binding pact that poses...
Read MoreThe Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has requested comments for the Special 301 Report, which identifies countries that “deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) or deny...
Read MoreIndia has released its new model Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). Its definition of an investment includes ” Copyrights, know-how and intellectual property rights such as patents, trademarks, industrial designs and trade...
Read MoreThe Fourth Global Congress will open tomorrow at the National Law University in Delhi, India. The website with the program and other details is here. In advance of the meeting, the organizers have posted a series of discussions...
Read More(This blog is based on a working paper, which also includes a bit of modeling for a textbook market with multiple sellers, varying levels of perceived quality, and copyright enforcement. The full text of the paper is here, and...
Read MoreUSTR has pointed to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) development chapter, the first such chapter in any U.S. trade agreement, as evidence that the TPP is an advancement over previous ones. Last night’s release of the...
Read MoreThe government of New Zealand has posted the complete text of the Trans Pacific Partnership, along with the acknowledgement that “the text will continue to undergo legal review and will be translated into French and...
Read MoreNovember 3, 2015 | 11:00 McKinley Media Innovation Lab American University The AU School of Communications Faculty Forum, and the AU Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property will host a...
Read MoreTrans Pacific Partnership governments are trying to convince stakeholders that the controversial Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism in the agreement is an improvement over those found in previous trade...
Read MoreThis morning, trade ministers from the twelve countries negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership jointly announced that “we have successfully concluded the Trans-Pacific Partnership.” The U.S. Trade Representative...
Read More[MSF Press Release] As US President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Modi meet in New York today, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned that US pressure for India to change its intellectual property...
Read MoreThis week Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will meet their Indian counterparts for the first meeting of the U.S.-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue (S&CD). The Republican and...
Read MoreAppeals Court Affirms That Copyright Owners Must Consider Fair Use in Online Takedowns [EFF Press Release, Link (CC-BY)] An appeals court in San Francisco today affirmed that copyright holders must consider whether a use of...
Read MoreThe Kenya Copyright Board (KEBCO) is preparing to propose amendments to the Copyright Act that would block sites hosting content which infringes local creators’ copyrights. Local internet service providers that refuse to take...
Read MoreThe White House Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) has issued a request for comments to inform the drafting of the next Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement. The notice...
Read MoreThe South African government has introduced a draft Cybercrimes & Cybersecurity Bill for public comment. The Bill states that anyone who “sells, offers for download, distributes, or otherwise makes available”...
Read MoreThe Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued a request for comments for the 2016 National Trade Estimate (NTE) report on Foreign Trade Barriers. This is an annual report in which USTR seeks to identify...
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