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Allan Rocha de Souza;1 Luca Schirru;2 Leon Queiroz Ramos3  In Brazil, 2024 has been quite eventful regarding copyright, with the debate seemingly returning to center stage. The Senate’s approval of Bill 2338/23 (AI Bill)...

Lokesh Vyas; Luca Schirru; Sean Flynn  Members of the research team from the Program of Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP)’ Geneva Center published a “Documentary History of the Broadcast Treaty in the...

Sean Flynn and Luca Schirru Last year, two new intellectual property treaties were adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization — one on the disclosure of uses of genetic resources in patent applications and a...

Allan Rocha de Souza [1] and Luca Schirru [2] On November 18 and 19, the G20 highest representatives met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when they issued the 2024 conclusive document of the Brazilian Presidency, the Leaders of the...

By: Luca Schirru [1] and Allan Rocha de Souza [2] On December 11, 2024, the Brazilian Association of Intellectual Property (ABPI) organized and hosted the Forum “Decoding Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” in São...

Brazil’s statement at WIPO CDIP 33 emphasized AI’s transformative potential in IP while highlighting challenges like copyright violations and the need for fair remuneration. Advocating for global governance and legislative...

Allan Rocha de Souza [1] and Luca Schirru [2] On November 18 and 19, the G20 highest representatives met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when they issued the 2024 conclusive document of the Brazilian Presidency, the Leaders of the...

By Luca Schirru On October 8, 2024, the USDA released a series of documents providing information on research activities involving patent seeds, which aimed at guiding researchers and other stakeholders through the intricate...

By Desmond Oriakhogba “African researchers continue to face information-access barriers owing to copyright exclusivity preserved by the global copyright system that is designed and skewed towards protecting rights holders’...

By: Allan Rocha de Souza [1] and Luca Schirru [2] Brazil began taking its first steps toward AI regulation around 2018. By 2019, new legislative proposals emerged, with a sharper focus on AI; however, none addressed...

In the negotiations of a Design Law Treaty, there is considerable debate on whether countries will be able to ensure disclosure of Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Genetic Resources which might have...

A lawsuit filed against six major academic publishers alleges that restrictive practices that maximize profits at the expense of scholars and the public violate U.S. antirust laws (see Reuters). The publishers named as...

In this blog post, leading Design Law Professor Sarah Burstein argues that the negotiating draft of the WIPO Design Law Treaty contains a little noticed provision, buried in its “regulations,” that attempts to harmonize a key...

A study by German authors’ group, Initiative Urheberrecht, argues that AI training falls outside the scope of the EU’s exception for uses of copyrighted material for text and data mining and that distributing such an AI model...

A new Report by the Brazilian Copyright Institute (IBDAutoral), directed by professor Allan Rocha, proposes revisions to a new Brazil proposal to require remuneration for training artificial intelligence. The Report, a summary...

The UK’s government decided against implementing a broad copyright exception for AI training. This decision follows earlier plans to allow AI companies to use copyrighted content for training without a license, which has now...

Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, provides a summary of the key outcomes and achievements from the WIPO copyright committee (SCCR/44) meeting held in Geneva from November 6 to 8, 2023. The meeting...

The fifth round for the trilogue negotiations on the EU AI Act was scheduled for October 24, 2023. Communia Association, in collaboration with Creative Commons and Wikimedia Europe issued a statement urging the co-legislators to...

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was recently discussed at a trilogue meeting of three key bodies of the EU as part of the last phase of negotiations, on October 24, 2023. Creative Commons (CC) collaborated...

Prof. P. Bernt Hugenholtz Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam Email: hugenholtz@uva.nl In preparation of the 44th meeting of the SCCR a Third Revised Draft Text for the WIPO Broadcasting...