Author: Justin Diamond

COMMUNIA recently made a submission to a call for evidence on the evaluation of the Geo-blocking Regulation which the European Commission is set to review the rules for this year. This regulation governs geo-blocking, including...

On March 19, 2025, a side event will take place during the regular WTO TRIPS Council session, organized by Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, India, and Pakistan. The event will review 30 years of the TRIPS agreement, focusing on its...

A recent article by Barry Sookman, “The Significance of Anderson v. TikTok: A Test for Section 230 CDA,” explores the Third Circuit’s recent decision in Anderson v. TikTok, which redefines the boundaries of...

A recent article published by EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) contends that the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) draft study on Public Lending Right (PLR) is fundamentally flawed. The PLR system...

In recent weeks, disputes over South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB) have intensified, with the visually impaired and blind community raising actions against the South African government. Blind SA, represented by...

In a recent Forbes article, Roomy Khan explored the ongoing legal debates around the use of copyrighted content for training artificial intelligence (AI) models. Whether AI companies can use copyrighted data, such as images,...

In the recent LAION vs. Kneschke case, the Hamburg District Court addressed the application of Germany’s text and data mining (TDM) exceptions under the Copyright Directive. This is one of the first rulings to be reached with...

A White Paper on Proposed Revisions by the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), S. 2140, published by Joshua D. Sarnoff and Charles Duan, critiques the 2023 legislation which seeks to revise the doctrine of subject matter...

A recent Datysoc article (Spanish language) discusses an ongoing dispute in Uruguay over whether a copyright exception for computational analysis should be included in a copyright modernization bill. In June 2024,...

The UK government has signed the first-ever international treaty to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), as part of its efforts to prevent potential misuse of the technology. Alongside the EU, US, and Israel, the UK has...

WIPO has launched a new Preservation Toolkit to guide national legislators in crafting copyright provisions for digital preservation of cultural materials. This toolkit addresses the need for updated legal frameworks,...

On May 18, 2023, the American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP), the American Library Association, and the Association of Research Libraries hosted a User...

In July 2024, the African Union Executive Council endorsed “The Continental Artificial Intelligence Strategy,” which emphasizes the importance of AI in reshaping economies, societies, and geopolitics, with significant...

The South Centre has published an analysis of the 65th series of meetings of the Assemblies of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), highlighting ongoing tensions between developed and developing nations. Tensions...

A new policy paper by the European digital rights organization, COMMUNIA, argues that “access rights” should be established in EU law “when lawful access is needed to allow users to effectively exercise their rights under...

James Love and Claire Cassedy, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) The basic proposal for an international legal instrument relating to intellectual property, genetic resources and traditional knowledge associated with genetic...

Denise Nicholson, a Copyright consultant at Scholarly Horizons, contends that criticism of a Copyright Amendment Bill in South Africa is misguided and harms authors and creators. She believes that the Bill contains some of the...

Edtech platforms play an increasing role in higher education, affecting academic labour, complicating academic ownership of teaching materials, and impacting educators’ academic freedoms. A recent report by Education...

Carolina Botero’s recent paper, “Latin American AI Strategies Can Tackle Copyright as a Legal Risk for Researchers,” addresses the legal issues that researchers face when trying to use or develop artificial...

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet examined the standards and policy considerations that should be applied to whether IP protection should be given to inventions (patents) or...