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...
Read MoreCreative 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...
Read MoreRepost 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...
Read MoreBy 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...
Read MoreBy Andres Izquierdo On September 20 and 21, 2023, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) hosted its Eighth Session of the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Frontier Technologies. Central to the...
Read MoreAmidst 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...
Read MoreCreative Commons (CC) has engaged with a wide variety of stakeholders such as artists and content creators, as part of its ongoing community consultation on generative AI, to explore ways of addressing the artists’ concerns. CC...
Read MoreThis book examines the numerous adverse and unintended consequences of the shift to ed-tech as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It documents the consequences of widespread educational technologies, specifically how...
Read MoreOn the 18th and 19th of September 2023 the Heads of State and Government and high representatives, met at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, at the Sustainable Development Goals Summit, to review progress and...
Read MoreIn a recent decision of the D.C. Circuit, in American Society for Testing and Materials v. PublicResource.org, the Court affirmed the District Court’s finding that the publishing of the Code of Federal Regulations online...
Read MoreBy Viviana Rangel – Patricia Díaz The Latin American Alliance for Fair Access to Knowledge highlights in an article for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) blog the critical role of copyright in enabling efficient AI...
Read MoreVyas discusses copyright’s “balance” metaphor, alleged to have originated in the 1785 British case Sayre v. Moore. This paper aims to contribute to the exploration of the genealogy of this concept in copyright, especially in the...
Read MoreKlosek highlights the challenges faced by libraries in the United States, such as not having enough bargaining power to retain their rights when negotiating with vendors for digital scholarly content, and inability to preserve...
Read MoreThe article titled ‘SA’s new copyright bills could sink Agoa – Contentious laws could ‘substantially lower’ protections,’ published in The Sunday Times on July 30, 2023, prompted surprise due to its assertions. While...
Read More[Ruwan Fernando] Apart from the basic statutory definition in section 65 of the Intellectual Property Act of Sri Lanka, there do not appear to be any detailed statutory guidelines or judicial decisions to provide any framework for the assessment of inventive step in Sri Lanka. The current statutory definition is highly insufficient to evaluate the standard of obviousness in relation to biotechnological and pharmaceutical claims based on a combination or modification of a prior art reference.
Read MorePIJIP Director Sean Fiil-Flynn and North-West University Professor Klaus Beiter submitted comments to the U.S. Treade Representative related to the annual review of the eligibility of sub-Saharan African countries to receive the benefits of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Their submission counters claims made by the International Intellectual Property Alliance regarding South Africa’s compliance with international copyright treaties.
Read More[Public Citizen Press Release] Colombia will soon decide whether to authorize price-cutting generic competition with a critical patented AIDS drug, directly challenging pharmaceutical industry power under a new health ministry resolution in one of the hemisphere’s most influential states. In anticipation of the decision, https://www.citizen.org/article/letter-to-colombias-minister-of-health-supporting-colombias-right-to-issue-a-compulsory-license-for-hiv-treatment-dolutegravir/ Colombian Minister of Health Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo to support expanding access to dolutegravir, calling the move a “stand for health justice.”
Read More[Guillermo Rodrigo Corredor] The technological stocktaking for developing countries after the pandemic is quite ambiguous. Although the crisis was stopped using state-of-the-art vaccines that reached the most disadvantaged and remote places in record times, effective access to the new technologies that became available to curb the pandemic is, at least for the time being, less spectacular.
Read More[Katherine Klosek] This month, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) issued principles to guide policymakers in their conversations around copyright law and AI. LCA is the voice of the library community on copyright policy; its members—the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)—represent over 300,000 information professionals and thousands of libraries. The LCA principles hold that US copyright law is fully capable of addressing questions about AI-generated outputs.
Read More[Electronic Information for Libraries] EIFL and the international library, archives and museum communities have called on WIPO to finalize the new Toolkit on Preservation (document SCCR/43/4) without making any further changes to the text. The call was made in response to an invitation to delegations at WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/43) to provide written comments on the Toolkit.
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