Authors: Margaret Kyle and Yi Qian Abstract: We examine the effect of pharmaceutical patent protection on the speed of drug launch, price, and quantity in 60 countries from 2000-2013. The World Trade Organization required its...
Read MoreAuthor: Justin Hughes Abstract: The manuscript explores how U.S. fair use – a “standard” in a world of statutory copyright rules – has become an arena of ideological struggle over IP policy. At the international level, this...
Read MoreAuthor: Ruth Okediji Abstract: An explicit goal of the 1994 TRIPS Agreement was to secure export markets for a wide variety of knowledge goods in which industrialized countries had long held a competitive advantage. In more...
Read MoreBriefing Paper by the Science Europe Working Group on Research Data Editor: Christoph Bruch. (Link) (CC-BY) The steadily-growing amount of digitally-available research data and publications enables researchers to search and...
Read MoreAuthor: Mark Lemley Abstract: The traditional justification for intellectual property (IP) rights has been utilitarian. We grant exclusive rights because we think the world will be a better place as a result. But what evidence...
Read MoreAuthors: Paul David Harpur and Nicolas Suzor Abstract: This article argues that governments around the world need to take immediate coordinated action to reverse the ‘book famine’. There are over 129 million book titles in the...
Read MoreAuthor: Cynthia Ho Abstract: Although there has been substantial discussion of the proper scope of patentable subject matter in recent years, drugs have been overlooked. This Article begins to address that gap with a comparative...
Read MoreAuthors: Kris Erickson, Paul Heald, Fabian Homberg, Martin Kretschmer, and Dinusha Mendis Abstract: The purpose of this research study is 1) to map the size of the public domain and frequency of its use; 2) analyse the role of...
Read MoreAuthor: Jane C. Ginsburg Abstract: Two encroachments, one long-standing, the other a product of the digital era, cramp the author’s place in copyright today. First, most authors lack bargaining power; the real economic actors in...
Read More[UNESCO press release, Link] “Fostering Freedom Online: the Role of Internet Intermediaries” is the title of a new title in the UNESCO Internet freedom series. With the rise of Internet intermediaries that play a mediating role...
Read MoreUrs Gasser and Wolfgang Schulz Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2015-5 February 2015 | Full Text (SSRN) A. Summary A review of online intermediary governance frameworks and issues in Brazil, the European Union, India,...
Read MoreReport by Ethan Senack for the Student PIRGs Full report here, (CC-BY) Executive Summary: According to the College Board, the average undergraduate student should budget between $1,200 and $1,300 for textbooks and supplies each...
Read MoreAuthors: Christine Årdal, John-Arne Røttingen Abstract: Greater investment is required in developing new drugs and vaccines against malaria in order to eradicate malaria. These precious funds must be carefully managed to achieve...
Read MoreAuthor: Ryan Safner Abstract: Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, stands as a highly visible success story of an organization that provides a public good, when formal theory implies it should not exist. The modern...
Read MoreAuthors: Andrea Filippetti and Daniele Archibugi Abstract: There is a heated debated – in academia and in policy circles – about the usefulness of a stronger global regime of intellectual property rights (IPRs). Supporters of...
Read MoreAuthors: Barbara Biasi and Petra Moser Abstract: Policies that reduce the costs of accessing prior knowledge (which is covered by copyrights) are becoming increasingly prominent, even though systematic empirical evidence on...
Read MoreAuthors: Hazel V. J. Moir, Brigitte Tenni, Deborah Gleeson, and Ruth Lopert Abstract: In the Trans Pacific partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations, the United States has proposed expanded patent protections that will likely...
Read MoreAuthors: Stefan Larsson, Måns Svensson, Peter Mezei, and Marcin De Kaminski Abstract:The challenge that illegal file-sharing poses to legal criminalisation is addressed in this study. Nonetheless, the pretexts and reasons for...
Read More[Prepared by Kenneth Crews for the 29th Session of the SCCR, Link] INTRODUCTION: A study of copyright exceptions and limitations for libraries and archives, commissioned by the World Intellectual Property Organization and...
Read MoreThe following is an excerpt from Pacific Trade & Human Rights, a joint report by the World Health Organization, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the UN Development Programme. The lead authors are Lloyd Lipsett,...
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