Internet Association Press Release, June 29, 2017. Link (CC-BY-NC-SA) Today, Internet Association released a new analysis that found reducing intermediary liability safe harbor protections would cost the U.S. 4.25 million jobs...
Read MoreMonika Ermert, IP-Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA) The European Parliament today with over 600 votes adopted the legal instruments to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty on access to reading material for the visually impaired. The treaty,...
Read MoreToday, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced a request for public input for a performance review of all the United States’ existing international trade and investment agreements. In an April 29, 2017 executive...
Read More[Mitch Stoltz, EFF Deeplinks Blog, Link, (CC-BY)] The U.S. Copyright Office just released a long-awaited report about Section 1201, the law that bans circumventing digital restrictions on copyrighted works. Despite years of...
Read More[Teresa Nobre, Worlds of Education, Link (CC-BY-NC)] JUNE 15, 2017: The World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) is currently engaged in discussing, at an international...
Read More[Andy, TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY-NC)] The MPAA and RIAA have made their positions clear in submissions to the North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations. Both want allies Canada and Mexico to commit to tightened copyright...
Read More[Afro Leo, Afro-IP blog, Link (CC-BY)] Last week WIPO, Cornell University, INSEAD and their knowledge partners published their annual Global Innovation Index GII 2017. This index is a global benchmarking tool for determining the...
Read MoreWithout a refocus on user rights, transparency, and meaningful public input, the agreement will become a bonanza for copyright maximalists [Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] This week Creative Commons submitted...
Read More[María Juliana Soto, Karisma, Link (CC-BY)] Karisma Foundation, a Colombian civil society organization, is launching a crowdfunding campaign to support Diego Gómez, a biologist accused of copyright infringement for sharing a...
Read MoreTabitha Ha, Stop AIDS, Link In the past month, I joined two major global gatherings for multiple stakeholders, including high-level government representatives, to tackle the issue of high drug prices as well as access to...
Read MorePaving the way for parallel imports to exert downward pressure on domestic pharmaceutical (and other) prices [Frederick M Abbott*, IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-SA)] The Supreme Court of the United States on May 30, 2017 adopted a rule...
Read More[Paul Keller, Communia Association, Link (CC-0)] Yesterday we sent an open letter on copyright reform to the EU Member State ministers attending the Competitiveness Council. We have done so together with more than 60 other civil...
Read MoreEnglish translation of a joint press release by eight Peruvian civil society organizations. Tranlation by Justin Mendoza (Access to Medicines Organizer, Public Citizen). The original press release in Spanish is available here,...
Read More[Fundación Karisma, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Hoy, después de más de tres años de iniciado el proceso penal, el Juzgado 49 Penal del Circuito dictó sentido del fallo a favor del biólogo Diego Gómez, en un proceso penal que habría podido...
Read MoreTimothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY) Diego Gómez, the Colombian student who for the last three years has been prosecuted for sharing an academic paper online, has been cleared of criminal charges. The decision was...
Read MoreJoint statement by the Internaiontal Federation of Library Associations and the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (Link, CC-BY) IFLA and EBLIDA sincerely wish to be able to welcome...
Read MoreJoint letter signed by 43 civil society organizations Dear Ministers: As organisations representing health professionals and health advocates from countries that are signatories to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP),...
Read More[ReCreate press release, Link (CC-BY)] As the Trump Administration notifies Congress of its intent to negotiate changes to NAFTA, the Re:Create Coalition today issued a statement urging the Office of the United States Trade...
Read More[Teresa Nobre, Communia Association, Link, (CC-0)] Today we publish the findings of a new study carried out by Teresa Nobre that intends to demonstrate the impact exerted by narrow educational exceptions in everyday practices....
Read More[Médecins Sans Frontières press release] The Philippines is set to host the 18th round of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement’s negotiations in Manila this week. Negotiators from the ten...
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