Open Letter Signed by 40 Academics as January 12, 2016 Posted to SSRN by Robin Feldman, Mark Lemley, Jonathan Masur and Arti Rai As scholars who write in intellectual property (“IP”), we write this letter with aspirations of...
Read More[Timothy Vollmer, Communia, Link (CC-0)] Communia has published a policy paper on the topic of leveraging copyright in support of education. We contend that exceptions and limitations to copyright for education should support...
Read MoreJahan ‘Harry’ Taubman-Rezakhanlou for Intellectual Property Watch Link (CC-BY-NC-SA) More than 50 members of the United States Congress today sent a letter urging the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and National...
Read MoreThe United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines is calling for contributions by interested stakeholders that address the misalignment between the rights of inventors, international human rights...
Read More[CC Korea, host of the 2015 CC Global Summit, Link (CC-BY)] This ebook is a compilation of keynote speeches and major sessions selected by keyword from the program of the Creative Commons Global Summit 2015 held in Seoul, Korea...
Read MoreIP and Development Track Organizers, Reposted from global-congress.org WRAP-UP NOTE 1: FEEDBACK ON BROAD DISCUSSION IN THE IP AND DEV TRACK – SET OF COLLECTED KEY POINTS This year, the discussions included attention to broad...
Read More[Gisela Pérez de Acha and Pepe Flores, Digital Rights LAC, Link (CC-BY)] On November 6 2015, the Mexican Ministry of Economy made public the Spanish version of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), allowing a wider view about the...
Read MoreMPP, AbbVie and South African Department of Health work together to establish long-term solutions for antiretroviral therapies (ARVs) [MPP Press Release, Link (CC-BY)] The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) today announced a new...
Read MoreDocument presented by the Group of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (GRULAC) to the 31 Session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Full Document (PDF) Introduction: GRULAC presents a...
Read More[Ryan Merkley, Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] I’m proud to share with you Creative Commons’ 2015 State of the Commons report, our best effort to measure the immeasurable scope of the commons by looking at the CC licensed...
Read More[Maira Sutton, EFF, Link (CC-BY)] The Internet is a diverse ecosystem of private and public stakeholders. By excluding a large sector of communities—like security researchers, artists, libraries, and user rights groups—trade...
Read More[La Quadrature du Net, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Today, the European Commission has presented its proposal to reform copyright law in the European Union. This package includes a proposal for a regulation on portability of online...
Read More[International Federation of Library Associations, Link (CC-BY)] Today IFLA joined a wide coalition of stakeholders representing civil society, news publishers, libraries, consumers and the digital industry in expressing concern...
Read More[Ernesto for TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY)] The German Supreme Court has opened the door for ISP blockades of copyright infringing sites. In a landmark decision the court ruled that ISPs can be required to block websites if...
Read More[Software Freedom Law Center, Link (CC-BY-SA)] The first official public release of the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement (known universally as the TPP) on November 5, 2015 generated much heated speculation....
Read MoreThe royalty-free agreement allows manufacturers to develop daclatasvir for 112 low- and middle-income countries [MPP Press Release, Link (CC-BY-NC-ND] The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) today announced its first licence for a...
Read MoreEIFL welcomes Poland’s new copyright law that brings library services into the twenty-first century [Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] The new Polish Copyright Act [link in Polish] enters into force on...
Read More[Piyushi Kotecha, Sarua, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Balancing tertiary institution budgets — without fee increases and with increases in costs due to inflation and potential insourcing — are not the only headaches facing vice-chancellors...
Read More[Fifa Rahman and Joel Lexchin, The Malaysia Online, Link] On November 16, 2015 at the launch of the Intellectual Property Rights Index (IPRI) 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, IDEAS Malaysia, a libertarian think tank and proponent of the...
Read More[Katri Stanley, Derechos Digitales, Link (CC-BY-SA)] The final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, reached by the 12 member countries on October 5, 2105, caused a near-immediate outcry from many within the digital...
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