Generation Open” Theme Highlights Students and Early Career Researchers SPARC Press Release Contact: Ranit Schmelzer Phone: 202.538.1065 Email: media@sparc.arl.org Washington, DC – Hundreds of events will take place across the...
Read More[Treatment Action Campaign, Link, (CC-BY)] October 20th, 2014—PRETORIA: Patients, doctors and members of civil society meet today with government experts to plot a course for quickly reforming South Africa’s patent laws, so that...
Read MoreAccess to New AIDS, TB, and Hepatitis C Medicines Threatened For Immediate Release Health GAP (Global Access Project) Contact: Paul Davis: +1 202 817 0129 pdavis@healthgap.org Wikileaks has released a 77-page document revealing...
Read More[Swaraj Paul Barooah, SpicyIP, reposted from with author’s permission] In a very welcome and quick response to USTR’s Special 301 Out of Cycle Review (OCR) process for India that opened for comments a couple of days ago...
Read More[Open Media press release, Link, (CC-BY-NC-SA)] Citizens from across the globe want balanced copyright rules that are shaped democratically, respect creators, and prioritize free expression. That’s the message of Our Digital...
Read More[La Quadrature du Net, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] French civil society organisations April, Creative Commons France, Framasoft, La Quadrature du Net, Libertic, Open Knowledge Foundation France, République Citoyenne and SavoirsCom1...
Read More[Andrea Higginbotham, Open Access Week, Link (CC-BY)] On Monday, October 20th, from 3:00 to 4:00pm EDT, SPARC and the World Bank will co-host the official kickoff event for International Open Access Week 2014 with a reception to...
Read More[September 23, 2014] We, the undersigned organisations and individuals, understand that ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to the United States, the government has decided to review India’s positions on...
Read MoreOxfam press release, Link Insufficient innovation and a lack of access to affordable medicines are major barriers to achieving the right to health in low- and middle-income countries. This paper argues that European Union trade...
Read More[Joint press release, Link] The World Health Organization (WHO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and World Trade Organization (WTO) will hold a technical symposium on “Innovation and access to medical...
Read MoreExcerpt from Competition Policy Review, Draft Report, September 2014, published under a CC-BY license. The review is being conducted by a panel chaired by Professor Ian Harper. It is accepting comments until November 17, and...
Read More[Nicole Allen, SPARC, Link, (CC-BY)] A new briefing paper on state-level open educational resources policy was released yesterday by the Education Commission of the States (ECS), a non-partisan think tank that provides...
Read MoreProfessor Henry Ergas and Professor Allan Fels A Submission to the Online Copyright Infringement Discussion Paper Click here for the full submission Authors’ summary of Key Points: The changes proposed in the government’s...
Read MoreCivil Society Statement for Pre-ICDRA and ICDRA We, the undersigned organizations, bring to the attention of Drug Regulatory Authorities, WHO, Member States and other participants of Pre and International Conference on Drug...
Read More[Médecins Sans Frontières, Link] Ahead of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Ministerial Conference to be held in Myanmar on 27-28 August 2014, see the letter below from Medecins Sans Frontieres addressed to...
Read MoreDownload full text of the public draft (1222 pages). [U.S. Copyright Office Press Release, Link] Register of Copyrights Maria A. Pallante today released a public draft of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Third...
Read More[Matthew Schewel for Inside U.S. Trade] A confidential Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiating document obtained by Inside U.S. Trade sheds new light on the extent of disagreement that remains over controversial provisions...
Read MoreTyler Snell, Digital Rights LAC, Link (CC-BY-SA) A growing pernicious trend that is greatly affecting digital policy around the world is called “policy laundering” – the use of secretive international trade agreements to...
Read More[Ombudsman Press Release, Link] The European Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, has called on the Council of the European Union to publish the EU negotiating directives for the on-going Transatlantic Trade and Investment...
Read More[Anubha Sinha, CIS-India, Link (CC-BY)] We are pleased to announce that the Centre for Internet and Society will be hosting the fourth edition of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest at New...
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