ACTA’s biggest EU proponent, Karel De Gucht, the European Commissioner driving ACTA, is now admitting that the agreement may be doomed in Europe. Techdirt reports minutes from a recent Commission meeting in which De Gucht...
Read MoreContrasting with apparent progress on some other chapters, which were declared “on track” by negotiators, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement’s intellectual property chapter appears to have stalled in Melbourne. According to...
Read MoreMELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. Negotiations of the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) have turned to discussions of the pharmaceutical reimbursement chapter today. This issue is highly controversial and represents a very recent...
Read MoreMELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. At this week’s Melbourne round of TPP negotiations, the Computers and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) — representing tech companies like Google, Facebook, E-Bay and Yahoo — has...
Read More[Enclosed are my comments at the TPP stakeholder forum in Melbourne, Australia, March 4, 2012. You may also see my Presentation Slides: What ACTA should learn from TPP and listen via Audio File TPP Presentation March 4 2012] I...
Read MoreOn Friday March 2 (Australian time), the Australian Digital Alliance, NZRise, Knowledge Ecology International, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Internet NZ and New Zealand Computer Society hosted a briefing...
Read MoreGood morning. Thank you for having me. I continue to believe that having a public hearing as part of the 301 process is important. My comments today will be in the vein of continuing the trend toward making this a more open,...
Read MorePublic interest advocates and analysts have long been critical of the “maximalist” intellectual property agenda of some wealthy countries. But there is also a counter-current in the public interest community that is advocating...
Read MoreOn January 30 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and the non-profit advocacy organization Knowledge Ecology International...
Read MoreThe European Union Signed ACTA today – months after withholding its signature at the official signing ceremony in Japan. But the political atmosphere in the EU remains very much in flux. The key to the future is that, unlike the...
Read MoreMuch has been made in recent days about announced amendments to SOPA in response to the effective advocacy efforts of technology and internet companies over the winter holiday period. A review of recent press and advocacy...
Read MoreThe conflict between Senator Wyden and the administration over the constitutionality of ACTA continued anew last week. As previously reported, Senator Wyden wrote a letter to President Obama in October, 2011, challenging USTR’s...
Read MoreEnclosed are my lecture notes from my talk on January 7, 2012 on a panel at the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. I have also included a printable version and a copy of the slides that go with...
Read MoreThe TPP is the latest in a dangerous shift in US trade policy towards a practice of international law making to bind the US to standards not reflected in its current law and without adequate transparency or public process. As in...
Read MoreHeesob Nam recently requested me to give an opinion on whether the intellectual property provisions of the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement [KORUS] are fully consistent with U.S. law. The U.S. Congress did not change its...
Read MoreAmbassador of New Zealand to the United States, and former WTO Director General, Mike Moore explained today that the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) may contain the “sequencing” of intellectual property and other...
Read MoreThe Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure has just released the response it got from the EU INTA committee to the request to disclose the legal opinion the Committee recently received on ACTA. In what would be a...
Read MoreMargot Kaminski (Yale Information Society Project), Brook Baker (Northeastern University) and Jimmy Koo and I (PIJIP) have released a draft section by section analysis of the leaked U.S. proposals for intellectual property and...
Read MoreOn the eve of a hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, two releases from the research and academic community suggest that the current debate is on the wrong track. First, a new study...
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The TPP chief negotiators took questions from stakeholders this morning in Lima, Peru. There were...
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