FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Arjun Karki, akarki@ldcwatch.org , +977 9851023254 Prerna Bomzan, prerna@ldcwatch.org , +977 9841209336 Deborah James, djames@cepr.net , +1 (202) 441 6917 On 20 May, global civil society networks...
Read MoreOur World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS) Network and LDC Watch. Dear Ambassador Suescum, We are outraged with the manner in which informal consultations are being conducted on the issue of extension of the LDC’s transition period. We...
Read More[Posted to the Communia blog by Anne-Catherine Lorrain, (CC0 1.0)] The mission on culture at the digital era commissioned by the French government and supervised by Pierre Lescure, rather pompously entitled ‘Acte II de...
Read More[La Quadrature du Net, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Pierre Lescure has handed in his report [fr] on culture at the digital era to French President François Hollande1. La Quadrature du Net denounces a flawed political process revealing the...
Read More9-13 December 2013, Cape Town, South Africa 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...
Read More[White House press release, May 9, 2013] The Obama Administration today took groundbreaking new steps to make information generated and stored by the Federal Government more open and accessible to innovators and the public, to...
Read MoreLeast-developed countries fighting for TRIPS exemption extension [MSF Press Release] On the appointment of Roberto Azevedo as Director General of the World Trade Organization, international medical humanitarian organisation...
Read More[Posted on FixthePatentLaws.org (Link)] On 24 April 2013, Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies stated that South Africa’s new intellectual property (IP) policy would not be released for public comment any time soon. This...
Read MoreAuthors: Pamela Samuelson, Phil Hill, and Tara Wheatland Publisher: Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.(Forthcoming) Abstract: American copyright professionals may be so accustomed to the current domestic regime of...
Read More[Shamnad Basheer] Late last year, leading publishing houses including Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press brought a copyright action against Delhi University and a tiny photocopy shop licensed by it, seeking...
Read More[EIFL press release (CC-BY)] On the occasion of World Intellectual Property Day with the theme “Creativity: the next generation”, EIFL is pleased to publish the fourth in a series of case studies with the results of...
Read More[Ante Wessells, posted to FFII.org (link) (CC-BY-SA)] Today the European Parliament International Trade committee voted on a draft resolution on the EU – US trade agreement (TTIP / TAFTA). La Quadrature du Net summarizes it: EU...
Read More[La Quadrature du Net, Link (CC-BY-SA)] On 25 April next, the “International Trade” (INTA) committee of the European Parliament will vote on a draft resolution on the proposed EU-US trade agreement, the “Trans-Atlantic Free...
Read More[Dan Cohen, Executive Director, (Announcement on DPLA site)] It’s not very often you get to build a new library. Together, that’s what we will begin to do today. Starting with over two million items, each with its own special...
Read MoreCase Study: Copyright Debate in Estonia Project Manager: Karmen Linask Copyright Specialist, National Library of Estonia Results of an EIFL-IP funded project (Link) [CC-BY] Download Case Study as a PDF In January 2013,...
Read More[Signed by 19 public health groups. Available here as a printable PDF] Generic medicines save lives by preventing, curing and managing non-communicable and communicable diseases for all Malaysians, especially the lower-income...
Read More[Creative Commons Colombia (Link) (CC-BY)]La Cumbre Mundial de Creative Commons, que se realizará este año en Buenos Aires – Argentina, lanzó oficialmente la Convocatoria a Sesiones y Charlas, que harán parte del programa...
Read More[FFII press release (CC-NY-SA)] The EU Commission decided to keep the trade agreement with Singapore secret until it enters into force. With this decision the Commission betrays European citizens and democracy, according to the...
Read MoreHealth groups rally in Delhi as protests spread across the developing world. [Posted on the Don’t Trade Our Lives Away blog, 10 April, 2013, New Delhi] Thousands of people living with HIV, cancer patient groups &...
Read MoreWe have been informed about the repeated attempt of the EU to include Intellectual Property Rights provisions that are very likely to undermine the stable supply of affordable life-saving medicines to poorer parts of the world. It is extremely worrisome that, despite assurance made by the Indian government regarding its determination not to include any measures hampering the production and provision of affordable generic medicines, the EU continues to put pressure on the Indian counterpart to accept Data Exclusivity, Intellectual Property Enforcement Measures and Investment Rules, all of which are designed to protect the interests of European pharmaceutical giants by curbing the availability of generic medicines cheaply produced in India. It is apparent that these provisions aim to secure bigger profits for large European pharmaceutical corporations and discourage production of cheap generic medicines in India, which have been saving millions of lives across the world.
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