Author: PIJIP

Moving Towards a New Copyright Bargain: Lecture by Rebecca Giblin

Copyright laws are beset from every angle. They’re criticized for failing to recognize and reward creators, for blocking new forms of creativity, for limiting access to knowledge and for causing culture to be lost. Copyright’s fundamental structures were settled before the digital era, but are cemented in by outdated and effectively unamendable treaties. In this public lecture, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow Rebecca Giblin illuminates a path forward to a new copyright bargain: one that, by taking authors’ interests seriously, would simultaneously reclaim lost culture, promote access to knowledge and help authors get paid – all within those unamendable treaty frameworks.

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Copyright Week 2019 Johannesburg : Decolonising Copyright, Building our Creative & Information Economy

This morning, Recreate ZA, in partnership with Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Wits Library, Wiser and the UCT IP Unit hosted an event titled: Decolonising Copyright, Building our Creative & Information Economy. Speakers included Ruth L. Okediji, Ben Cashdan, Justice Zak Yacoob, Daniel Mashao, and Mugwena Maluleke.

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This Week: Fifth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

The Fifth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest will be held September 27-29 at American University Washington College of Law. The Global Congress is the main convening of a global network of over 800 researchers, activists and practitioners who work on the intersection of the public interest. The core goal is to promote evidence-based policy-making by fostering partnerships between academics and policy advocates from around the world. Selected talks and panels will be live-streamed.

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South Africa’s Proposed Copyright Fair Use Right Should Be a Model for the World

[Sean Flynn, Michael W. Carroll, Peter Jaszi, Ariel Katz, Leandro Mendonça, Diane Peters, and Allan Rocha de Souza] Copyright laws the world over are under massive pressure to reform to fit the digital environment. One key area often in need of reform is in the exceptions to copyright that enable the digital practices. Without exceptions, common practices may be illegal, such as sharing photos on social media, making technical copies to send and stream, and uploading excerpts to closed networks for student access. None of these and dozens of other digital issues were considered when most of our laws were drafted in the 1970s. South Africa is on the cusp of reforming its law with a new hybrid exception that contains both a set of modern specific exceptions for various purposes and an open general exception that can be used to assess any use not specifically authorized.

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PIJIP Professor Carroll Co-authors National Academies of Science Report: Open Science by Design

PIJIP Director Michael Carroll served on an ad hoc committee under the N.A.S. Board on Research Data and Information which has completed a study on the challenges of broadening access to the results of scientific research, described as “open science.” The study, Open Science by Design: Realizing a Vision for 21st Century Research, will be formally released on Tuesday, July 17 at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Keck Center.

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South Africa Seminar to Focus on Impact of User Rights in Copyright Reform

On May 8, Professor Sean Flynn will release the latest PIJIP report – The User Rights Database: Measuring the Impact of Copyright Balance at a public lecture at University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. The report is being released as the South Africa Parliament deliberates on a copyright amendment bill that includes a proposal to adopt a new open and flexible general exception modeled on the US fair use clause.

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American University Announces Developing Country Scholarships for IP in the Multilateral System Course

American University has announced a limited number of full-tuition scholarships for official delegates of the missions of developing countries to attend a three-week training on Intellectual Property in the Multilateral System June 25 – July 13, 2018, in Geneva, Switzerland. The course is coordinated by American University Washington College of Law and includes lectures and exercises with officials at multiple UN agencies.

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PIJIP Letter to Colombian Government on Art. 14 of the Proposed Copyright Reform

… We write today to offer our views on Article 14 of the proposed Copyright reform dealing with limitations and exceptions. Our central concern is that Colombia take advantage of the flexibility in the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement to adopt a general public interest limitation and exception that can authorize future uses of copyright content that might not be envisioned today but that nevertheless would be fair under the standards of all international copyright laws.

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