Click here for the original statement in Spanish. An English translation follows: The government of Mexico has engaged in secret negotiations, behind the backs of the public and elected legislators, but open to an army of...
Read More[Stephen Kinsella, Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, Link (CC-BY)] Patents are often used as indicators for economic and innovative progress.1 The assumption is that many patents represent innovation, and also that...
Read MoreExecutive Summary. Click here for the full Article 19 Analysis (PDF) On 13 November, Wikileaks published a full draft of the IP Chapter of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (‘TPP’), a multilateral trade agreement...
Read More[Andy, TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY-NC)] In legal advice to the EU Court of Justice, Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón today announced that EU law allows for Internet service providers to be ordered to block their customers...
Read MoreForthcoming in: Ch. Geiger (ed), “Research Handbook on Human Rights and Intellectual Property”, Cheltenham, UK / Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar (2014) Abstract: The relationship between the protection of intellectual property...
Read More[Andy for TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY-NC)] ISPs have condemned negotiations on a potential update of Swiss copyright law that is being influenced by the U.S. Government and entertainment companies. According to the ISPs the secret...
Read More[Fair Deal Coalition, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Today the Fair Deal Coalition has called on Governments involved in the TPP negotiations to reject copyright proposals that would limit the open Internet, access to knowledge, and curtail...
Read More[Reposted from Department of Trade and Industry website, Link] The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies says Intellectual Property (IP) if it is correctly used and implemented can assist the country to achieve its...
Read MoreGabriel Michael, Link (CC-BY-SA) Last Thursday, Wikileaks released a draft text of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. The TPP is a free trade agreement currently been...
Read MoreJoint Statement by Centrum Cyfrowe, EDRi, Kennisland, and the Modern Poland Foundation, Link (CC-BY) Today, the Licenses for Europe experiment comes to an end. This initiative, launched almost a year ago was ostensibly an...
Read More[Reposted from CC-USA, Link (CC-BY)] Senators Dick Durbin and Al Franken today introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act, which directs the Secretary of Education to fund the creation of college textbooks and materials to...
Read MoreDear Mr. President: The organizations below are, like you, dedicated to ensuring the sustainability of public programs that provide access to affordable health care. But we write today to express our deep concern that provisions...
Read More[UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education] A new country report on Open Educational Resources in Poland has been published by IITE. The authors Kamil Sliwowski and Karolina Grodecka describe the national...
Read More[European Digital Rights Initiative. Link, (CC-BY)] French Socialist MEP Françoise Castex published her draft report on private copying levies on 9 October. The biggest question that the document raises is… are you...
Read MoreThe Irish Copyright Review Committee has released its report, Modernising Copyright. Below are two excerpts from the introduction. Click here for the full report. Summary of Recommendations The centerpiece recommendations...
Read More[Caralee Adams, SPARC, Link (CC-BY)] Experts discussed the changing nature of measuring the impact of research in the open, digital environment, and researchers who leveraged Open Access to advance science in significant ways...
Read More[La Quadrature du Net, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Major organizations from all around the world, defending free speech and freedoms online, signed this open letter initiated by La Quadrature du Net. It encourages for a swift adoption, in...
Read More[La Quadrature du Net, Link, (CC-BY)] After more than four years of secret negotiations, the text of the Canada-Europe trade agreement, CETA, reached agreement in principle during a meeting between José Barroso, the President...
Read More[Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] Today Creative Commons released a policy statement expressing its support for copyright reform efforts around the world. Creative Commons (CC) has enabled a new approach to...
Read More[Eleonora Rosati for IP Kat, Link (CC-BY)] As Jeremy reported on The 1709 Blog a couple of days ago, last month the Executive Committee of the Association Littéraire at Artistique Internationale (ALAI) [Victor Hugo founded it...
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