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  By: Allan Rocha de Souza [1] and Luca Schirru [2] The Salvador da Bahia Declaration (SBC, 2024) was adopted by the G20 Culture Ministers on November 07, with many important statements of policy at the intersection of Cultural...

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...

The European Commission and the Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations (IP office) held their annual IP Dialogue under the Association Agreement between the European Commission and Ukraine on October...

Creative Commons held a one-day workshop before kickstarting the CC Global Summit 2023 in Mexico City. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss issues related to Artificial Intelligence, creators, and the commons, and to help...

Repost from IFLA It can often feel like governments are playing catch-up with the internet. As digital technologies play an increasingly indispensable role in everything we do, the risks that they also bring are becoming...

By Rachael G Samberg rsamberg@berkeley.edu and Timothy Vollmer tvollmer@berkeley.edu Image via rawpixel, public domain In August 2022, the UC Berkeley Library and Internet Archive were awarded a grant from the National...

Amidst the copyright reform debate in South Africa, the Cultural and Creative Industries Federation of South Africa (CCIFSA) recently initiated its #NationalShutDownMarch campaign, in opposition of the reform. The article...