[UPDATE, AUGUST 3: The text of the U.S. proposal has been leaked and posted online by KEI here.] Professors Peter Jaszi, Michael Carroll and Sean Flynn Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property American...
Read MorePIJIP Research Paper no. 2012-09 Author: Hong Xue Abstract: On July 6, 2012, the National Copyright Administration of China released the 2nd Draft of the 3rd Revision of the copyright law, in which 81 provisions were changed...
Read MoreIn a recent presentation before the Personal Democracy Forum, Yochai Benkler, the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, discussed the media...
Read MoreThe European Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement today, 478-39. The rejection issued a massive blow to the prospects of the agreement itself, as well as to the larger international...
Read MoreThis overview of copyright flexibilities in Israel consists of two parts. First, answers to a questionnaire on the state of copyright law, copyright flexibilities, and the current political context of copyright, which were...
Read MorePIJIP Research Paper no. 2012-08 Author: Aberto Cerda Silva Abstract: The standards of copyright protection promoted by the Berne Convention are highly problematic for developing countries because these countries need to ensure...
Read MorePIJIP Research Paper no. 2012-07 Author: Rami Olwan Abstract: On October 4, 2004, Brazil and Argentina requested that WIPO adopt a development-oriented approach to IP and to reconsider its work in relation to developing...
Read MoreThis overview on copyright flexibilities in China consists of two parts: first, answers to a questionnaire on the state of copyright law and second, a table organizing the limitations and exceptions to copyright in China’s...
Read MoreThis overview on copyright flexibilities in Canada consists of two parts: first, answers to a questionnaire on the state of copyright law and second, a table organizing the limitations and exceptions to copyright in...
Read MorePrintable PDFs of the letter are available in English and in Spanish April 9, 2012 Honorable Presidents of the Senate and House of Representatives: We write as a group of international intellectual property academics and experts...
Read MoreLast December, participants at a meeting on Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright hosted by IViR and PIJIP were asked to answer three questions relating to copyright law in their country. We are publishing their answers as...
Read MorePIJIP Research Paper no. 2012-06 Author: Jonathan Band Abstract: The controversy in the United States over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has profound implications for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. The SOPA...
Read MorePIJIP Research Paper no. 2012-05 Author: Margot Kaminski Abstract: In the past several years of free trade agreement negotiations, a number of proposals for establishing an international standard of liability for copyright...
Read MorePIJIP Research Paper no. 2012-04 Author: Meera Nair Abstract: Despite global trends to expand the ambit of copyright, Canada and Israel both show promise in cultivating the principal of fairness when exercising exceptions to...
Read MorePIJIP Research Paper no. 2012-03 Author: Mohammed El Said Abstract: Leaked diplomatic cables related to the United States’ foreign policy implementing and enforcing intellectual property in developing countries draw a bleak...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 6, 2011 CONTACTS Sean Flynn: 202-294-5749 | sflynn@wcl.american.edu Brook Baker: 617-259-0760 | b.baker@neu.edu Margot Kaminski: margot.kaminski@gmail.com As trade officials from nine countries...
Read MoreSean Flynn, a lecturer at American University Washington College of Law and Associate Director of its Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, testified to negotiators of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement...
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Read MorePIJIP fellow Jimmy Koo has written a section-by-section analysis of the US-proposed intellectual property chapter of the the Trans Pacific Partnership. The document lists each article and compares it to US law, TRIPS, and/or...
Read MoreEXCERPT: “…Your suggestion that draft negotiating text and position papers should be made public is understandable but problematic. First, this would only be possible if all parties agreed. Many negotiating parties...
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