[UN Development Programme, Link] This study focuses on policy options available to South Africa through reform of three interrelated areas of law affecting access to HIV treatment and other essential medicines: patent,...
Read More[Message from Lotti Rutter to email lists] On September 4, 2013, the South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) published the Draft National Policy on Intellectual Property, 2013, for public comment. This draft policy...
Read More[Marcus Low, reposted from Ground Up, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] South Africa’s draft intellectual property policy fails to make any mention of the most progressive copyright treaty in years. Blind and visually impaired people will pay...
Read More[Submission to the Australian Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade by 7 Australian NGOs.*] Executive Summary: This submission sets out our organisations’ views on the US proposals for intellectual property and medicines for the...
Read MoreAnte Wessells, FFII, Link (CC-BY-SA) The EU and Singapore initialed and published the text of the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA). The text contains the much criticized retail price damages, known from the...
Read More[Jorge Gemetto, Digital Rights-LAC, Link (CC-BY-SA)] In early July, the Uruguayan government had included an article in the Accountability Bill (one omnibus bill that mostly deals with administrative issues), which extended the...
Read MoreAuthors: David Hansen, Kathryn Hashimoto, Gwen Hinze, Pamela Samuelson and Jennifer Urban Abstract: Over the last decade, the problem of orphan works — i.e., copyrighted works whose owners cannot be located by a reasonably...
Read MoreAct Up-Paris, Oxfam International, Health Action International, & Action against AIDS Germany Following the official launch of the negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the EU and the Kingdom of Thailand in...
Read MoreAuthor: Rebecca Giblin, Monash University Abstract: It has been more than three years since the first countries began implementing ‘graduated responses’, requiring ISPs to take a range of measures to police their...
Read MoreGlobal Health Justice Partnership Policy Paper 1 Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health [Hannah Brennan, Rebecca Distler, Miriam Hinman, Alix Rogers (CC-BY)] In this paper, we address whether and how human rights...
Read More[Maureen Nwobodo, Assoc. for Progressive Communications (CC-BY-NC-SA)] Many countries have made moves to make internet intermediaries (such as cybercafés, internet service providers and telecom operators) liable for the sort of...
Read MoreChristopher Buccafusco and Jonathan S. Masur University of Chicago Law & Economics Working Paper Excerpt from introduction: This Article offers an economic analysis of the use of criminal liability in two areas of IP:...
Read More[ACT-UP Paris, Link (CC-BY-SA-ND)] EU has just modified its legislation on the customs control concerning the enforcement of “intellectual property” rights, not considering that it impedes the legitimate trade of generic...
Read More[Creative Commons Press Release, Link, (CC-BY) ] The Creative Commons Global Summit will be held from August 21 to 24 at the San Martín Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The event will bring together activists and...
Read More[Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, Link, Palermo University] The responsibility that intermediaries must have regarding the behaviour of their users on the Internet has increasingly been...
Read More[Global Congress/Open Air, Link] In December 2013, delegates from national and international governmental entities, the private sector, civil society and academia will gather for five days of interconnected events in Cape Town,...
Read MoreKALYANI MENON-SEN Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab +91-9910306382 Swiss pharma major Roche has just announced that it is relinquishing the patent for its breast-cancer drug Trastuzumab (Herceptin) in India. The announcement...
Read More[Reposted NROER, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] The National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) is a collaborative platform, involving each and every one of us interested in children, teachers and education. The Repository will...
Read More[Joint Press Release] The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today delivered a memorandum to the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) at the National Workshop on Intellectual Property and Public...
Read MorePress Release. For further information, please contact: Kalyani Menon-Sen +91-9910306382 Leena Menghaney +91-9811365412 The Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab welcomes the decision of the Patent Controller, Kolkata,[1] to...
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