Dear Mr. President: The organizations signing this letter want to express our deep concerns regarding some of the provisions under negotiation in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). These provisions could seriously impact...
Read MoreMulti-sectoral NGO coalition calls for greater protections for consumers, journalists, whistleblowers, researchers and workers Joint statement by 15 NGOs Link to PDF on Health Action International Site We strongly oppose the...
Read More[Lawyers Collective press release, Link] In a momentous decision that would have wide-ranging implication for access to medicines, the Supreme Court of India refused to entertain Bayer’s appeal to set aside the compulsory...
Read MoreGroups Demand That Negotiators Release Text of Secret Trade Deal [EFF Press Release, Link, (CC-BY)] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has joined dozens of civil society groups from around the world in calling for the...
Read More[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link, (CC-BY)] In June 2013, member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) adopted the “Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are...
Read More[Open A.I.R., Link, (CC-BY-SA)]This Briefing Note highlights Open A.I.R. research findings on apparent disconnects between African national policymaking on intellectual property (IP) from publicly funded research and the actual...
Read MorePublic Citizen Testifies Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Explains How to Reduce Cost of Therapies [Public Citizen Press Release, Link] The federal government should act to dramatically lower the cost of...
Read More[Médecins Sans Frontières, Link] As the 6th round of negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement take place in India, people living with HIV are rallying in the streets of New Delhi to...
Read More[Lawyers Collective, India] As you know, transnational pharmaceutical companies and the US Government are putting pressure on the Indian Government to change India’s IP laws especially the Indian Patents Act, which will make...
Read MoreEleonora Rabinovich, Digital Rights LAC, Link (CC-BY-SA) The Argentine Supreme Court has finally published its ruling on intermediary liability. The Court, grounded on strong principles, solved an issue which had generated...
Read MoreMPP Press Release, Link, (CC-BY-NC-ND) Contact: Katherine Moore gro.looptnetapsenicidem@eroomk Licence will support the work of the recently launched Paediatric HIV Treatment Initiative (PHTI) to Develop Better Adapted Medicines...
Read MoreMillions of creators around the world use CC licenses to give others permission to use their work in ways that they wouldn’t otherwise be allowed to. Those millions of users are the proof that Creative Commons works.
But measuring the size of the commons has always been a challenge. There’s no sign-up to use a CC license, and no central repository or catalog of CC-licensed works. So it’s impossible to say precisely how many licensed works there are, how many people are using Creative Commons licenses, where those people are located, or how they’re using them.
With this report, we’re taking a big step toward better measuring the size of the commons. We’re also sharing all of the data and methodologies that we used to find these numbers, and making a commitment to hone and update these findings in the months and years to come. We’re also telling the stories of events from 2014 that have impacted the size, usability, and relevance of the commons.
Read More[Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign] The European Union’s (EU) free trade and research and development (R&D) policies promote excessive intellectual property (IP) protection. This approach jeopardises access to...
Read More[Electronic Information for Libraries press release, Link (CC-BY)] After five years, it was time to update the 2009 EIFL Draft Law on Copyright in the light of legislative developments, current thinking on copyright policy, and...
Read More[Official Indian govt. release] Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has constituted an IPR Think Tank to draft the National Intellectual Property Rights Policy and to advise the Department of Industrial Policy and...
Read More[SPARC, Link (CC-BY)] OpenCon 2014 is the student and early career researcher conference on Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data and will be held on November 15-17, 2014 in Washington, DC. It is organized by the Right to...
Read More[John Hendrik Weitzmann, Communia Assoc., Link, (CC0)] Last week Communia joined the “European Observatory on Infringements of IPR” which is hosted by the European Union’s Office of Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM)....
Read More[Paul Keller, Communia, Link, (CC0)] In 2013 the European Union enacted Directive 2013/37/EU amending Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information (PSI). The 2013 directive is an important pillar of the...
Read MoreDue to the growing need to better understand the technological and cultural transformations that digitization has caused in the production and consumption of content and news, and recognizing the importance of guaranteeing access to abundant and reliable information, researchers from the Center for Technology and Society (CTS/ FGV Rio Law School) worked alongside the Open Society Foundations in a project, involving more than 50 countries, which analyzed the impacts of this process of digitization in Brazil and around the world.
Read MoreOpen Access Button press release, Link, CC-BY Joseph McArthur, +447732634892 | media@openaccessbutton.org London, England. The Open Access Button today launched a suite of new apps to help researchers, patients, students and the...
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