The bill now sits with the State Senate Judiciary Committee and must be defeated. Ernesto Falcon, EFF, Link (CC-BY) California’s A.B. 2880 will give government agencies the power to put copyright restrictions on their...
Read More[Anna Mazgal, Communia Association, Link (CC-0)] Freedom of panorama is a fundamental element of European cultural heritage and visual history. Rooted in freedom of expression, it allows painters, photographers, filmmakers,...
Read MoreJoint Statement by 11 NGOs: Forum Against FTAs, Lawyers Collective, All Indian Drug Action Network, Initiative for Health & Equity in Society, Third World Network, National Working Group on Patent Laws, Gene Campaign, New...
Read MoreCopyright Advisory Group to the COAG Education Council Executive summary: Australia’s copyright laws operate as a serious roadblock to preparing children to be the creators and innovators of the future. Government policy and...
Read MoreIndia must resist pressure from US lawmakers and pharmaceutical industry groups to block access to key medicines for millions of people worldwide [Médecins Sans Frontières, Link] New York/New Delhi, June 2, 2016—As Indian Prime...
Read More[IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] The German Constitutional Court today ruled in favour of the “freedom to sample” – or freedom to remix – in a case between the singer/songwriter Sabrina Setlur and the band Kraftwerk. The latter...
Read More[Kyla Tienhaara and Belinda Townsend, East Asia Forum, Link] On 2 May 2016, US President Barack Obama published an op-ed in the Washington Post in an attempt to bolster support for the highly controversial Trans-Pacific...
Read More[Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link, (CC-BY)] Uruguay is in the process of updating its copyright law, and in April a bill was preliminarily approved in the Senate. The law introduces changes that would benefit students,...
Read More[House Ways and Means Committee Democrats, Link] A group of 15 House Democrats today sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman urging the Administration to clarify its position on compulsory licensing for...
Read More[Andy, TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY-NC)] The operator of a site that hosted fan-made translated movie subtitles has been prosecuted in Sweden. Undertexter.se was raided by police in the summer of 2013, despite many feeling that the...
Read More[Fundacion Karisma, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Two final hearings took place in May 2016, in the criminal proceedings that Colombian biologist Diego Gomez is facing for alleged copyright infringement. “Whom do you hurt the most when there...
Read MoreAB 2880 will give state and local governments dramatic powers to chill speech, stifle open government, and harm the public domain. [Ernesto Falcon, EFF, Link (CC-BY)] The California Assembly Committee on Judiciary recently...
Read More[J. Carlos Lara & Pablo Viollier, Derechos Digitales, Link (CC-BY-SA) ] Nos hemos acostumbrado a ver, una vez al año, las noticias informando que varios de nuestros países está en la llamada “lista negra de la piratería”....
Read More[Médecins Sans Frontières, Link] Gilead Sciences has been seeking patents in India for the hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir. The patent applications have been challenged by groups of people living with hepatitis C and HIV through...
Read More[University of Cape Town IP Unit, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] On 5 May 2016, the Gauteng High Court delivered the long awaited decision in Moneyweb v Media24. The case’s history is nicely captured here. In a nutshell, the case dealt with,...
Read MoreEIFL campaign to mark UNESCO World Book & Copyright Day and WIPO World Intellectual Property Day 2016 [Teresa Hackett, Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] In the digital environment, librarians deal with...
Read More[Tim Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] April saw lots of activity on the open science front in the European Union. On April 19, the European Commission officially announced its plans to create an “Open Science Cloud”....
Read More[Jessica Coates, ADA, Link (CC-BY)] The Australian Digital Alliance (ADA) welcomes the sensible and much needed proposals for changes to Australia’s copyright law contained in the draft report of the Productivity Commission’s...
Read MorePresented by the Colombian civil society organizations: Ifarma Foundation, Misión Salud and CIMUN Dear Mr. Bhanu Pratap Sharma, Chairman. We would like to transmit to you and all assistants our best wishes for the success of...
Read More[World Blind Union] The European Blind Union (EBU) and World Blind Union (WBU) have sent a letter to the President of the European Commission, Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, and Vice-President, Mr. Andrus Ansip, urging them to put an...
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