[Announcement by Ellen Broad] Today the Australian Digital Alliance published important economic research which found that flexible and technology neutral copyright laws will, over time, add $600 million in annual productivity...
Read MoreAccess Info Europe is leading a new campaign to create Open Government Standards and promote them around the world. The idea is to set standards on what open, transparent, accountable and participatory government really means....
Read MorePost by PIJIP Professor Jorge Contreras, originally written as a guest post for Public Knowledge. [Source] Despite its own protestations to the contrary, I am confident that the rumors of Samsung’s demise have been greatly...
Read More[World Bank Paper by Hanif Rahemtulla, Samantha Custer, Irina Tisacova, Kaushal Jhalla, Soren Gigler, and Charles Brigham.] ABSTRACT: … In April 2011, Moldova became one of the first countries in the region, and among the...
Read More[Blog by Claudio Ruiz published on Derecho Digitales’ site.] Durante las primeras semanas de Septiembre se llevará a cabo una nueva ronda de negociaciones del Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), de las que es parte nuestro...
Read MoreA joint statement by the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, the Australian Greens, and the Green Party of Canada criticizes the leaked investment and intellectual property chapters of the TPP. It also critizes the lack of...
Read More[Blog by Diane Peters, originally posted at creativecommons.org] We are pleased to post draft 2 of 4.0 for public discussion. This comes after several months of substantive conversations on a number of policy issues, with input...
Read More[repost from La Quadrature du Net] Now that the ACTA treaty has been rejected by the European Parliament, a period opens during which it will be possible to push for a new regulatory and policy framework adapted to the digital...
Read MoreCLICK HERE FOR A PRINTABLE PDF. Joint Statement signed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Knowledge Ecology International, Grupo de Pesquisa em Políticas Públicas para o Acesso à Informação-USP, Public Knowledge, the...
Read MoreWe stand for a free and open Internet. We support transparent and participatory processes for making Internet policy and the establishment of five basic principles: Expression: Don’t censor the Internet. Access: Promote...
Read MoreDear Ambassador Kirk: We write with regard to the ongoing negotiations over a potential Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement (FTA), an agreement that continues to grow in scope. Specifically, we write to urge...
Read MoreSenators Brown, Wyden, Merkley, and Menendez Call on Administration to Demonstrate Transparency by Posting “Detailed Information” and “Consistent Updates” Regarding TPP Proposals PRESS RELEASE FROM U.S. SEN. SHERROD...
Read MorePetros Petridis Panteio University, Athens According to the major copyright industry groups, Greece has among the highest rates of “piracy” in the European Union. The Business Software Alliance recently put this number at 61% of...
Read MoreA post by Creative Commons Poland describes the government’s Digital School initiative, a section of which involves government funding for the creation of e-textbooks. All of the books created with the funding will be...
Read MoreOn May 9, over 30 legal scholars sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk calling on the administration to expand participation and transparency in the negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership. The...
Read Morevideo platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player [by Timothy Vollmer] On Monday, the World Bank hosted an event called What the World Bank’s Open Access Policy Means for Development (you can view the video recording of...
Read MoreThe following is an excerpt from U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk’s prepared remarks. The full speech is available here. “We know that the United States and European Union can successfully and creatively address...
Read MoreRemarks of Rep. Henry A. Waxman – as prepared for delivery | May 10, 2012 I thank my colleagues on the Ways and Means Committee for organizing this event. Five years ago today, we achieved a breakthrough, taking a critical...
Read More[originally posted to the Communia website under a CC-BY license] The book “The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture”, edited by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Juan Carlos De Martin as an output of...
Read MoreDear Mr De Gucht,
As the parliamentary committee responsible for intellectual property law, the Committee on Legal Affairs is preparing to adopt an opinion for the Committee on International Trade whose task it is to recommend to the Plenary whether or not to consent to the conclusion of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, Australia, Canada, the Republic of Korea, the United States of America, Japan, the Kingdom of Morocco, the United Mexican States, New Zealand, the Republic of Singapore and the Swiss Confederation (ACTA).
As you know, on 22 February 2012 the Commission announced that the College of Commissioners had decided to refer a question to the Court of Justice on the compatibility of ACTA with the Treaties and with the Charter of Fundamental Rights. After this, nothing more was forthcoming until 4 April 2012 when the College agreed on the wording of the question. To date, as far as we know, no question has been referred. The Commission has not informed the Parliament of the reasons for such delay or when we can expect the question to be transmitted to the Court.
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