Letter sent to Canadian officials by Richard Elliot on behalf of ten civil society organizations. …We write to you as Canadian civil society organizations concerned about access to medicines, in Canada and globally. A...
Read MoreJoint Statement by 14 Civil Society Groups Reposted from the Third World Network, Link Today (6th November), the WTO-TRIPS Council adopted a decision granting Least Developed Countries (LDCs) an exemption from patents and test...
Read MoreUniversities Allied for Access to Medicine Sign-On Letter signed by 750+ Academics Click here to sign As members of the international academic and scientific community, we call upon the member states of the World Health...
Read MoreMPP’s voluntary licensing work could benefit millions of patients in low- and middle-income countries [MPP Press Release, September 6, 2015] The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), the world’s only voluntary licensing mechanism in...
Read More[Pedro Roffe, Xavier Seuba, Mariano Genovesi, ICTSD, Link] El 5 de octubre de 2015 se oficializó el cierre exitoso de las negociaciones sobre el Acuerdo de Asociación Transpacífico (TPP, por sus siglas en inglés) iniciadas en el...
Read More[Reilly Yeo, Open Media, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] Who should make the policies that will determine the future of the Internet? A select list of corporate lobbyists and unelected government officials, meeting without public oversight...
Read More[Treatment Access Campaign press release, Link (CC-BY-SA)] The Fix the Patent Laws (FTPL) Campaign, today called on the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to end years of pharmaceutical company price gouging and broken...
Read More[Nicole Allen, SPARC, Link (CC-BY)] Today the White House released its 2016-2017 Open Government National Action Plan, which includes commitments to expand access to open educational resources and the results of federally funded...
Read MoreFarida Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, presented her report on patents and access to culture to the General Assembly. The report’s summary is below, and the full report is...
Read More[Paul Keller, Communia Association, Link (CC-0)] Over the last month the German publishers who are pushing for ancillary copyright for press publishers on the EU level have encountered two more setbacks in their attempts to turn...
Read More[Office of Sen. Grassely, Press Release, Link] In order to help the public navigate a world in which software makes virtually everything function, from refrigerators to tractors, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck...
Read More[Catherine Saez, IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] The intellectual property committee of the World Trade Organization is meeting this week with a full agenda. The highlight of the agenda is the extension of a waiver allowing least...
Read More[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] EIFL and the Kenya Library and Information Services Consortium (KLISC) have jointly responded to a public consultation organized by the Kenya Copyright Board on proposals to...
Read MoreFundación Vía Libre reports that Fundación Vía LibreZ report that Liliana Mazure, Gloria Bidegain, Susana Canela, Gastón harispe, Héctor Recalde y Eduardo Seminara have introduced a plan to extend the term of copyright...
Read More[Paul Keller, Communia, Link (Public Domain)] It is generally accepted wisdom that if you do not want something to be noticed you can best announce it on a Friday afternoon. Presenting a study right before the start of the...
Read More[Jan Gondol, Creative Commons Blog, Link (CC-BY)] In the midst of the European migrant crisis, the Czech Republic is showing the power of open educational resources (OER). EDUin, a non-profit organization based in Prague worked...
Read More[Andy for TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY-NC)] The CEO and chairman of the RIAA says that the current notice and takedown anti-piracy process is both costly and increasingly pointless. Cary Sherman says the safe harbor provisions of...
Read More[Maira Sutton, EFF, Link (CC-BY)] Copyright restricts all kinds of important, everyday uses of creative works—even worse, these strict rules last nearly two lifetimes for any given work. We are fighting to reform and push back...
Read More[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link, (CC-BY))] On 3-4 September 2015, EIFL co-organized the first seminar in Nepal dedicated to library copyright issues, in cooperation with our partners, the Nepal Library and...
Read MoreDr Belinda Townsend, Dr Pat Ranald and Dr Deborah Gleeson Click here for full document (PDF). Excerpted IP and ISDS Sections Follow: Leaked negotiating texts by Japan and South Korea for an intellectual property (IP) chapter in...
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