STOP AIDS Press Release Contact: Diarmaid@stopaids.org.uk July 19, 2016, Durban At the 2016 International AIDS Conference held in Durban, South Africa, treatment access advocates presented a huge greeting card addressed to...
Read MoreDimitar Dimitrov, Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU, Link, (CC-BY) Thanks to synchronised interplay between our EU-level policy initiative and the steady work of our Belgian community, a new copyright exception allowing for...
Read More[Charlie Fripp, htxt.africa, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] After a series of public consultations and written submissions, South Africa’s somewhat controversial Copyright Amendment Bill will be put before parliament this month. The Bill...
Read MoreThe following is an excerpt from the introduction to Private Patents and Public Health, by Ellen ‘t Hoen. The full book is available online under a Creative Commons License here. Millions of people around the world do not...
Read More[UK Intellectual Property Office, Link (OGL v3.0)] The meteoric rise of streaming services such as Spotify and Netflix may be having a chilling effect on illegal copyright infringement according to new research. Kantar Media’s...
Read MorePresented by the Colombian civil society organizations: CIMUN, Ifarma, Foundation, and Misión Salud (Link) [Bogotá, Colombia 30th June, 2016 ] .. It is important for us to offer for your consideration, and for the consideration...
Read MoreMinistry of Business, Innovation, and Employment Government of New Zealand Submissions are due by 5pm on Monday, 8 August 2016 Consultation document (PDF) On 11 July 2016, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment released...
Read MoreAnna Mazgal, Communia Association, Link (CC-0) The right to quote is a pivotal element of science, study, critique, and art. By evoking somebody else’s words and creations we are able to enter into an intellectual dialog that is...
Read More[Ernesto for TorrentFreak, Link, (CC-BY-NC)] Last year the UK Government announced a plan to increase the maximum prison sentence for online copyright infringement to ten years. The current maximum of two years is not enough to...
Read More[Medicines Patent Pool press release, Link] The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced new generic manufacturing licences today for four antiretrovirals and hepatitis C direct-acting antiviral daclatasvir. The organisation...
Read More[Teresa Hackett, EIFL, Link (CC-BY)] Document delivery is a vital service in meeting the particular information needs of individual researchers, students and scholars. On 1 July 2016 the British Library (BL), one of the world’s...
Read MoreThe intellectual property system is a crucial part of economic policymaking worldwide. It affects matters of profound importance, including health, education, nutrition, culture, science, technology and innovation policy. One...
Read MoreWIPO Press Release, Link Geneva, June 30, 2016 PR/2016/792 Canada today became the key 20th nation to accede to the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or...
Read More[Catherine Saez, IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] A resolution on access to medicines proposed by a number of developing countries was adopted today by the United Nations Human Rights Council, as well as a resolution on enhancing...
Read MoreExcerpt from the Final Report of the Global commission on Internet Governance, Link (CC-BY-NC-ND) … Content intermediaries are evolving institutions. As a result, government policy makers are struggling to understand these...
Read More[Anna Mazgal, Communia Association, Link (CC-0)] The education exception benefits teachers, students, and researchers who need access to all types of educational and informational resources that are often protected by copyright....
Read More[William New for IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] The 28 European Union governments today were expected to give final approval to a first-ever plan to analyse medicines competition in Europe, with reference to drug prices, generics...
Read More[Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] In May we learned that Chile’s Chamber of Deputies approved an amendment to a bill that would create a new, unwaivable right of remuneration for authors of audiovisual works. The...
Read More[Anna Mazgal, Communia Association, Link (CC-0)] The parody exception cultivates the French tradition of satire. When the goal is to make people laugh, anybody can freely create a distinctively different mockery of a protected...
Read More[TWN, Link] Letter sent by 38 Civil Society Groups to India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, New Zealand, Lao, Philippines, Vietnam, Australia, Brunei, Singapore, Cambodia, Japan, South Korea As civil society...
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