Luisa Fernanda Guzmán Mejía (@lfdagm) Digital Rights LAC, Link (CC-BY-SA) Since its enactment, theLaw No. 1680 of 2013 has been crucial for the recognition, respect and safeguard to the rights of the blind and low vision. Thanks...
Read MoreAnnual Open Education Week March 9-13, 2015 [Open Education Consortium press release] The annual Open Education Week gets underway on Monday, March 9 with the theme The World Wants to Learn. Open education encompasses...
Read More[La Quadrature du Net, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] Just as the Julia Reda report (GREEN/EFA – DE MEP) on copyright reform was being discussed this week in the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), another...
Read More[Yale Global Health Partnership press release] Just last week, worldwide leaders came together in Geneva, Switzerland at the World Health Organization to begin to develop a five-year strategy to combat Hepatitis C. The disease,...
Read MoreCompany joins five other MPP patent holders in efforts to improve HIV paediatric care [Reposted from the Medicines Patent Pool, Link, (CC-BY-NC-ND)] The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced a licence today with MSD, known as...
Read More[Mike Isbell, Renée Ridzon, and Karin Timmermans, UNITAID/WHO , Link ] Executive summary: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major global health problem. With 80−150 million people worldwide chronically infected with the virus, the...
Read More[Reposted from thehaguedeclaration.com] The Hague Declaration is currently in draft form. The draft contains a list of basic principles. We welcome your comments on the text below. Please share your thoughts up until February...
Read More[Treatment Action Campaign, Link, (CC-BY)] CAPE TOWN: Yesterday, on World Cancer Day , People Living With Cancer – a South African support group representing thousands of patients – publicly signed on to support the Fix the...
Read More[John Hilton, Open Education Group, Link] This review provides a summary of all known empirical research on the impacts of OER adoption (including our own). The version originally published here in February 2015 was...
Read MoreFor further information, contact: Anand Grover: anandgrover@gmail.com Dinesh Abrol: dinesh.abrol@gmail.com Following Prime Minister Modi’s statement at the US-India Business Council yesterday that “India is ready to...
Read More[La Quadrature du Net, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] Yesterday, MEP Julia Reda presented in the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) of the European Parliament a report on the harmonization of copyright in Europe. She tables modest but...
Read More[Joint Letter from 12 American NGOs] We write as American organizations in advance of your trip to India this month to ask you to support India’s central role in providing high-quality, low-cost generic medicines—which are...
Read More[Press Release from Juliareda.eu, Link, (CC-BY)] EU copyright rules are maladapted to the increase of cross-border cultural exchange facilitated by the Internet, an upcoming European Parliament own-initiative report evaluating...
Read More[Ernesto, TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY-NC)] A Greek anti-piracy group has lost its bid to have various torrent sites blocked by local Internet providers. The Athens Court ruled that barring access to torrent sites such as...
Read MoreWill 2015 be the year of European copyright reform? [Theresa Hackett, EIFL, Link (CC-BY)] “Copyright divide in numbers”, the graph on the first page of the newly launched ‘The Copyright Manifesto. How the European Union should...
Read More[Rishika for the Centre for Internet and Society, Link (CC-BY)] In the year 2006, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) conducted a study on different national approaches to copyright exception for persons with...
Read More[Federal Register Notice from the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Link] …USTR is hereby requesting written submissions from the public concerning foreign countries that deny adequate and effective protection of...
Read More[[Médecins Sans Frontières, Link] The Indian Patent Controller has today rejected one of Gilead’s key patent applications which covered the drug sofosbuvir, used to treat hepatitis C (HCV). The oral drug, which first received...
Read More[Jeremy Phillips, Afro-IP, Link (CC-BY)] By Marrakesh Notification No. 5: Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled, WIPO has announced the...
Read More[Nathalie Espitia, Red Pa Todos, Link (CC-BY)] Como ya les habíamos contado, en nuestra entrada sobre el “Foro de Gobernanza de Internet” y “Un repaso sobre la Ley Lleras” hemos estado trabajando en un documento a partir de la...
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