For immediate release. Attribute to Sean Flynn, Associate Director, American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, on the decision of the Supreme Court in IMS v. Sorrell:...
Read MoreGeraldine Juarez in Mexico, geraldine@hipertextual.com, reports that the Mexican Congress has approved a resolution asking the president to not sign ACTA. She reports that, in a public hearing after the voting with citizens,...
Read MoreTwo recent news stories on Radio New Zealand covered the potential for a pharmaceutical chapter in the TPP. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/78135/pharmaceutical-industry-links-with-senators-revealed...
Read MoreIn a video interview from the World Copyright Summit on June 8, Francis Gurry, the Director General of WIPO, makes a (possibly unintended) effort to coop the “positive agenda” terminology of advocates for the development agenda...
Read MoreSources knowledgeable about the U.S. negotiating position in the TPP confirm that the U.S. has now drafted a pharmaceutical chapter for the TPP negotiations. The chapter is modeled on the Korea-US (KORUS) FTA’s pharmaceutical...
Read MoreThe U.S. Trade Representative’s 2011 Special 301 Report was released yesterday afternoon at about 4pm. (James Love from Knowledge Ecology International has an excellent blog on it here.) Overall, this year’s Special...
Read MoreToday at New York University I will be participating in the official launch of the multi-year multi-country study of Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (http://piracy.ssrc.org), edited by Joe Karaganis at SSRC. Mike Palmedo and...
Read MoreClick here for selected comments to USTR on ACTA from Civil Society Groups Cick here for the complete docket of comments (ustr-2010-0014) on regulations.gov Comment by Thirty Law Professors: SUMMARY: We write to call on the...
Read MorePlease join fellow legal academics in signing this draft statement to the administration on the constitutional problem with ACTA. The submission is open for editing comments and signatures until FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11 AT 4PM...
Read MorePeter Maybarduk (Public Citizen) and Sean Flynn (representing Forum on Democracy and Trade) met with USTR staff on February 3 to be briefed on the administration’s negotiation of the TPP with respect to the planned IP chapter...
Read MoreOn Friday, an organization of state legislators passed a resolution calling on the U.S. to halt the use of trade agreements to enact international disciplines on pharmaceutical pricing programs. The resolution was passed at the...
Read MoreThe EU has passed ACTA, in a close vote with a 16 vote margin. [See the official record of the vote.] The full text of the resolution is available here. There have also been two version of a leaked letter [one with comments,...
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