[Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] A group of civil society organisations and health experts have sent a letter to delegates to this month’s annual World Health Assembly urging support for a study...
Read More[Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] SOTC explores the wide array of creativity and knowledge that is freely available to the world under CC licenses. Throughout the report, we’ll show how the body of work in the commons has grown...
Read MoreTimothy Vollmer, Communia Association, Link (CC-0) Later this week in Toronto we’ll be joining hundreds of Creative Commons community members, supporters, and activists at the CC Global Summit. The summit program will feature...
Read MoreAgreement seeks to improve health options for hepatitis C patients in low- and middle-income countries [Medicines Patent Pool Press Release, Link] Amsterdam, Netherlands, 21 April 2017 —The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP)...
Read More[Riyadh Al Balushi, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Kuwait passed a new Copyright and Neighbouring rights Law in June 2016. This is new law replaces the 1999 copyright law – the first copyright law that Kuwait ever had. This new law is...
Read MoreThe following letter was sent by 80+ organizations to the leadership of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. For a printable PDF, click...
Read More[Joint comment endorsed by 14 organizations, listed below] We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to implement without further delay Department of Education Rule 2 C.F.R. § 3474.20 for “Open Licensing Requirement for Direct...
Read More[Parminder Jeet Singh, IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA) The World Wide Web today stands at a crossroads, as its standards body, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), considers the demand of big content providers to provide them with...
Read MoreNatalia Mileszyk, Communia Association, Link (CC-0) One might think that the debate on the ancillary copyright for press publishers is over – both JURI Rapporteur MEP Therese Comodini Cachia and IMCO Rapporteur Catherine...
Read MoreDecision enables price reductions and scale-up of treatment that leads to cure in 95% of cases [Médecins Sans Frontières, Link] Treatment for hepatitis C using the key drug sofosbuvir could be vastly scaled up in Brazil after...
Read More[Catherine Saez for IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] As the ratification by the European Union of an international treaty creating an exception to copyright for visually impaired people nears, a leaked text shows that the directive...
Read MoreIt Falls to the European Parliament to Undo Deeply Damaging Digital Policies of the European Commission March 20, 2017, Open Media, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA) In response to today’s release of Copyright Rapporteur Therese Comodini...
Read More[Anna Mazgal, Communia Association, Link (CC-0)] It is great that ITRE Rapporteur Zdzisław Krasnodębski joined IMCO Rapporteur Catherine Stihler in thinking that the right to read is the right to mine. As we explained in detail,...
Read MoreCivil Society Statement circulated by Haochen Sun, Associate Professor of Law and Director, Law and Technology Centre, The University of Hong Kong. Click here to sign the Statement. Click here to download the Statement....
Read More[Teresa Hackett, Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] EIFL is participating in Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, an annual celebration designed to highlight and promote the opportunities presented by fair use and fair...
Read More[Maximiliano Marzetti, guest contributor to IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] On 12 December, the Argentinian Copyright Office and the Ministry of Culture invited a group of stakeholders, among which was this author, to discuss the...
Read More[Meera Nair, Fair Duty, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] Tomorrow marks the start of Fair Dealing Week in Canada. There is much to be proud of with the steady advance in the realm of exceptions, gained not by intemperate action but by...
Read More[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] In 2016, libraries globally were set to spend 30 billion USD on books, journals, databases and other information resources, mostly paid from public funds. So when it comes to...
Read More– Demonstrations held at Roche & pharma associations in South Africa, Malaysia, UK, France, Zambia, Brazil, US – Further campaign activity in India, Russia, Ukraine, Morocco, Zimbabwe – 108 organisations...
Read MoreThis sign-on letter is being circulated by the Communia Association. Click here to sign by February 6. Quality and inclusive education is the cornerstone of securing Europe’s future. We, advocates of quality education in...
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