Author: Carlos Correa Abstract: Most free trade agreements signed by the United States, the European Union and the members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in the last 15 years contain chapters on intellectual...
Read MoreAuthor: M. Monirul Azam Abstract: This study analyzes the policy options used by Brazil, India, and South Africa in their transition to a TRIPS-compliant patent law and the introduction of pharmaceutical patents. This...
Read MoreAuthor: Kimberlee G. Weatherall Abstract: The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) required extensive changes to Australian copyright law. This paper assesses the impact of these changes one decade on. It considers, first,...
Read MoreAuthor: Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss Abstract: The Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights is tackling the difficult task of reconciling the provision in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizing that...
Read MoreAuthors: Andrew F. Christie and Robin W. Wright Abstract: Much of the literature on the three-step test focuses on its implementation in relation to one particular intellectual property regime only, usually copyright. That...
Read MoreAuthors: Rebecca Giblin and Kimberlee G. Weatherall Abstract: For the most part, library uses of physical objects embodying copyright protected works occur outside the purview of copyright and of the market. Loan of physical...
Read MoreAuthors: Rodrigo Cetina Presuel and Loreto Corredoira y Alfonso Abstract: In 2015, Spain’s new copyright law entered into effect including many new provisions including one that requires Universities to pay Collecting...
Read MoreAuthor: Niva Elkin-Koren Abstract: The rights of users of copyrighted materials are growing in significance. This is the result of fundamental changes in the creative ecosystem that pull in opposite directions: on the one hand,...
Read MoreAuthors: Misha Teplitskiy, Grace Lu, and Eamon Duede Abstract: With the rise of Wikipedia as a first-stop source for scientific knowledge, it is important to compare its representation of that knowledge to that of the academic...
Read MorePedro Roffe, Sergio Escudero and Xavier Seuba The following is an excerpt from the executive summary of a forthcoming paper. The paper was written under an IISD project funded under the Knowledge Partnership Programme of DFID...
Read MoreAuthor: Annemarie Bridy Abstract: In the years since passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), the copyright industries have demanded that online intermediaries — both those covered by the DMCA and those falling...
Read More[The Commons Network, Link, (CC-BY] How can we address the high prices of medicines that are straining health budgets? How can openly sharing green knowledge help an agreement at the climate change talks in Paris this year? How...
Read MoreAuthor: João Pedro Quintais Abstract: This paper briefly discusses an alternative legal model to assure remuneration for non-commercial mass online uses by individuals, covered by the exclusive rights of reproduction and...
Read MoreAuthor: Ana Carolina Bittar Abstract: New technologies can often disrupt the balance between public and private interests in copyright law. For example, the Internet has facilitated the dissemination of artistic works by...
Read MoreAuthor: Sergio Sparviero Abstract: Academic, trade, and popular publications commonly assert that 80 percent of motion pictures fail to make a net profit, suggesting also that the main players of the motion picture industry...
Read MoreAuthor: Karolina Andersdotter Abstract: This master’s thesis focuses on the argumentation of library organisations and European national libraries in their contributions to the European Commission’s public...
Read MoreAuthors: Christian Handke, Lucie Guibault and Joan-Josep Vallbé Abstract: This empirical paper discusses how copyright affects data mining (DM) by academic researchers. With the diffusion of digital information technology, DM...
Read MoreAuthors: Luis Aguiar, Jörg Claussen, Christian Peukert Abstract: Taking down copyright-infringing websites is a way to reduce consumption of pirated media content and increase licensed consumption. We analyze the consequences of...
Read MoreamFAR: The Foundation for AIDS Research OVERVIEW: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is currently being negotiated among 12 Pacific Rim countries: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru,...
Read MoreThe following is the introduction of South Centre Research Paper no. 61, Guidelines on Patentability and Access to Medicines, by Germán Velásquez. The full paper is available here. Until recently, the link between the...
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