[Reposted from La Quadrature du Net, CC-BY-SA] Brussels, 4 Feb 2013 — Today starts “Licences for Europe”, an initiative by the European Commission to discuss the issues of today’s copyright regime. Instead of planning for...
Read MoreExcerpt from a Fact Sheet from Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. Click here for the full Fact Sheet Eli Lilly and Company has initiated formal proceedings under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to attack...
Read More[by Amy Kapczynski] Chan Park, Bhaven Sampat and I recently published in PLoS, perhaps of interest to folks here. We provide data about the ubiquity and significance of so-called “secondary” patents in pharma (e.g....
Read More[Reposted from the AFINET website] The Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET), the Public Health Association and three other health organisations have made a submission to the review of pharmaceutical patents...
Read MoreAUTHOR: Peter C. DiCola ABSTRACT: “This article is based on an original survey of over 5,000 musicians nationwide. The survey results demonstrate the diversity of the population of musicians, in terms of genre, income...
Read More[Posting in the Electronic Information for Libraries Newsletter] “Open access: knowledge sharing and sustainable scholarly communication in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda” is a new EIFL regional project funded by Spider, the Swedish...
Read MorePress Release by the Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab CONTACT: Kalyani Menon-Sen: +91 9910306382, kmenonsen[at] gmail.com Leena Menghaney: +91 9811365412, leenamenghaney [at] gmail.com The Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab...
Read More[Posted by Cheryl Foong on the Creative Commons Australia site, CC-BY] The Queensland Government has implemented its ’open data revolution’ by launching the Queensland Government Data website – data.qld.gov.au. The initiative...
Read More[Originally posted by Ernesto on TorrentFreak, CC-BY-NC] A new study released by researchers from Boston’s Northeastern University shows that censoring “pirate” sites by blocking or seizing their domains is ineffective. The...
Read More[by Kingsley Egbuonu; reposted from Afro-IP] Afro-IP thanks Chukwuyere Izuogu, Streamsowers & Köhn for drawing our attention to this press release that Nigeria’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr....
Read MoreStatement by Jane Kelsey, University of Auckland: The New Zealand government has imposed unprecedented restrictions on registered stakeholders as it hosts the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in Auckland this week. “We...
Read More[Aurelia J. Schultz, Creative Commons Uganda. Original post on CC Affiliates blog.] We are pleased to announce the launch of the Creative Commons 3.0 Uganda licenses. Since joining the Creative Commons family in March of 2011,...
Read MoreWe, the undersigned civil society groups, urge Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to suspend any announcement to enter into negotiations towards the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) until there has been a comprehensive, clear and...
Read More[By Carolina Rossini, reposted from EFF’s Deeplinks blog] Internet service providers (ISPs) are the conduits of free expression on the Internet. However, many international and national law and policy proposals, including...
Read MoreThe following is an excerpt from the full paper by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, published as a working paper for the St. Louis Federal Reserve. The full paper is available here. The case against patents can be...
Read MoreAbstract reposted from the PLoS Journal of Neglected and Tropical Diseases. Authors: Christine Årdal and John-Arne Røttingen Full Study: HERE Background: Open source drug discovery offers potential for developing new and...
Read More[Written by Jenny Cascante Gonzalez · Translated by Jane Ellis – posted on Global Voices CC-BY-3.0] Thousands of students participated in a march in San José on Tuesday, October 9, 2012, protesting for their right to...
Read More[Originally posted on laquadrature.net by Jeremie Zimmerman (CC-BY-SA)] Ahead of the next round of negotiations of CETA, the Canada/EU Trade Agreement[1], La Quadrature du Net publishes its dedicated web-dossier. The citizen...
Read More[originally posted on the Access blog by Perter Micek under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-NY)] The Panamanian Congress recently passed a dangerous copyright bill, and it is one step away from becoming law....
Read More[Blog by Leena Menghaney, India Manager of the Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign. Originally posted as a BMJ Blog under a CC-BY-NC license.] This month, two critical legal battles between multinational pharmaceutical...
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