Yale Report: Millions of People with Hepatitis C Blocked from Obtaining...
[Yale Global Health Partnership press release] Just last week, worldwide leaders came together in Geneva, Switzerland at the World Health Organization to begin to develop a five-year strategy to combat...
View ArticleThe Fair Use/Fair Dealing Handbook
Updated March 10, 2015, to include UK Fair Dealing amendments. Updated on April 3, 2013, to include Liberia. More than 40 countries with over one-third of the world’s population have fair use or fair...
View ArticleCreative Commons Licenses Opening Access to Education in Sub-Saharan Africa...
[Cross posted from the CCUSA blog, Link (CC-BY)] In all my time with Creative Commons, I’ve come to see that support comes from people across a wide spectrum of creators. For some, the Creative Commons...
View ArticleStatement: Leaked TPP ISDS Chapter Threatens Intellectual Property...
Today’s leak of the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) chapter proposed for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement would give new rights to private companies to challenge limitations and...
View ArticleHow the Leaked TPP ISDS Chapter Threatens Intellectual Property Limitations...
I released a statement earlier today opining that the today’s leak of the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) chapter proposed for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement (available at...
View ArticleHow the Leaked TPP ISDS Chapter Threatens Intellectual Property Limitations...
I released a statement earlier today opining that the today’s leak of the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) chapter proposed for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement (available at...
View ArticleFair Use and Its Politics – At Home and Abroad
Author: Justin Hughes Abstract: The manuscript explores how U.S. fair use – a “standard” in a world of statutory copyright rules – has become an arena of ideological struggle over IP policy. At the...
View ArticleSen. Bernie Sanders: Letter Requesting Compulsory License on Sovaldi Patents...
Dear Secretary McDonald: I am writing to urge you to use your authority as Secretary of Veterans Affairs to break the patents on Hepatitis C medications for the treatment of veterans suffering with the...
View ArticleSenate and House Endorse Balanced IP in Reports on Fast Track
The Senate and House Reports on the Trade Promotion Authority bills working through Congress include important, albeit limited, steps toward endorsing balanced intellectual property norms in trade...
View ArticleFirm Performance in Countries With & Without Open Copyright Exceptions
This post presents preliminary data showing that firms in industries sensitive to copyright can succeed in countries with fair use. It is an early product of an interdisciplinary project at American...
View ArticleElsevier’s new sharing policy harmful to authors and access to scholarly...
[Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link, (CC-BY)] Today Creative Commons and 22 other organizations published a letter urging the publishing giant Elsevier to alter its newly revised policy regarding...
View ArticleA Commons Approach to European Knowledge Policy
[The Commons Network, Link, (CC-BY] How can we address the high prices of medicines that are straining health budgets? How can openly sharing green knowledge help an agreement at the climate change...
View ArticlePublic Knowledge Letter to Ambassador Froman on Trans Pacific Partnership...
See also, Public Knowledge press release and this letter in PDF (CC-BY-SA) Dear Ambassador Froman: All consumers are users of intellectual property. The average American interacts with hundreds,...
View Article100+ Organizations to President: Ensure Federally Funded Educational...
Creative Commons USA and over 100 other groups have sent a letter to President Obama urging a policy to ensure that “educational materials created with federal funds… are made available to the public...
View ArticleCurrent Copyright Policy Tendencies in 2015: Further Weakening of Limits and...
Authors: Rodrigo Cetina Presuel and Loreto Corredoira y Alfonso Abstract: In 2015, Spain’s new copyright law entered into effect including many new provisions including one that requires Universities...
View ArticleChile Is Half-Way to Legally Killing Open Licenses for Audiovisual Works
Chile is about to become the first country to successfully kill creative commons and other open licensing for audiovisual works with a copyright bill that has been already approved in the House of...
View ArticleGoogle Books and Feist-y Fair Use
Judge Pierre Leval’s opinion today in the Google Books case offers another fascinating glimpse into the richness of his thinking about the concept of fair use. (For more, be sure to attend (or stream)...
View ArticleDoes Compulsory Licensing Discourage Invention? Evidence from German Patents...
Authors: Joerg Baten, Nicola Bianchi, and Petra Moser Abstract: This paper investigates whether compulsory licensing – which allows governments to license patents without the consent of patent-owners –...
View ArticleFair Use and Blurred Lines Between Common Law and Civil Law Countries
[Cross posted from EIFL.org, Link (CC-BY)] For the last few decades, the United States has been aggressively and systematically “exporting” half of its copyright system. In treaties and in trade...
View ArticleCreative Commons Summit: Next Steps in Copyright Reform
[Originally posted on the Communia Blog, Link] The Creative Commons Summit, a bi-annual meeting of members of the CC network and friends of the Commons, took place in mid-October in Seoul, South Korea....
View ArticleLeval on Fair Use and Google Books: A Sketch of a Story
[Reposted from TechDirt, Link] Last Thursday, Judge Pierre N. Leval, a renowned fair use scholar and judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, delivered the Fourth Annual Peter A. Jaszi...
View ArticleHow the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights
[Maira Sutton, EFF, Link (CC-BY)] The Internet is a diverse ecosystem of private and public stakeholders. By excluding a large sector of communities—like security researchers, artists, libraries, and...
View ArticleStatement: Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: Thirty-First...
Statement of Sean Flynn, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: Thirty-First Session December 7-11, 2015 (Geneva, Switzerland)...
View Article51 U.S. Congress Members Urge Reasonable Licensing Terms For...
Jahan ‘Harry’ Taubman-Rezakhanlou for Intellectual Property Watch Link (CC-BY-NC-SA) More than 50 members of the United States Congress today sent a letter urging the US Department of Health and Human...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Labor Adopts CC-BY Licensing Policy Department-Wide
[Cable Green, Link (CC-BY)] Creative Commons (CC) believes publicly funded education, research and data resources should be shared in the global commons. The public should have access to what it paid...
View ArticleFair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2016 Highlights Balance in Copyright System
[Reposted from the Association of Research Libraries Policy Notes, Link (CC-BY)] On February 22–26, 136 organizations and numerous individuals participated in Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2016, an annual...
View ArticleSpecial 301 Post-Hearing Submission, Responding to Questions from the Committee
This reply comment responds to key questions that we were asked of us and others at the Special 301 hearing. Flexible Exceptions Work in Developing Countries I was asked in the hearing to comment on...
View ArticleColombian Civil Society Letter to the Chair of the 2016 CEWG, Describing...
Presented by the Colombian civil society organizations: Ifarma Foundation, Misión Salud and CIMUN Dear Mr. Bhanu Pratap Sharma, Chairman. We would like to transmit to you and all assistants our best...
View ArticleLandmark Copyright Decision on Fair Dealing and Other Aspects of South...
[University of Cape Town IP Unit, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] On 5 May 2016, the Gauteng High Court delivered the long awaited decision in Moneyweb v Media24. The case’s history is nicely captured here. In a...
View ArticleCivil Society Letter to President of Colombia, re: The Right to Issue a...
[Joint Letter Signed by 122 Experts – PDF in English and Spanish, with Signatures] Dear President Santos: We are lawyers, academics and other experts specializing in fields including intellectual...
View ArticleHouse Democrats Press USTR to Clarify Position on Compulsory Licensing for...
[House Ways and Means Committee Democrats, Link] A group of 15 House Democrats today sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman urging the Administration to clarify its position...
View Article‘Reclaim Invention’ for the Benefit of Everyone
[Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] The vision of the Creative Commons project is universal access to research and education, and full participation in culture to drive a new era of...
View ArticleMaking Creative Commons Licensing Work In Indonesia
[Creative Commons blog, Link (CC-BY)] Below is an update from Creative Commons Indonesia, who recently worked with their national copyright office on proposed changes to law that will secure the...
View ArticleProtecting and Promoting Open Copyright User Rights in International Law
There is increasing attention in international trade and copyright forums to the question of how international law should protect and promote copyright user rights. I presented the following options at...
View ArticleGerman Federal Court of Justice Grants Compulsory License in Preliminary...
[Mark Schweizer for IP Kat, Link (CC-BY)] According to its media release of 11 July 2017, the German Federal Court of Justice confirmed the decision of the Federal Patent Court granting Merck a...
View ArticleMalaysia Inclusion In Gilead Voluntary Licence – A Product Of Compulsory...
[Fifa Rahman for IP-Watch, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Gilead’s announcement today that they would include four middle-income countries (Malaysia, Thailand, Belarus, Ukraine) in their sofosbuvir voluntary...
View ArticleDNDi Welcomes Malaysia’s Move to Secure Access to More Affordable Treatments...
[Drugs for Neglected Diseases press release, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] Malaysia has issued a “government use” licence enabling access to more affordable versions of an expensive and patented medicine to...
View ArticleU.S., Canadian & Mexican Law Professors, Academics and Policy Experts: NAFTA...
Update – November 20: The statement of principles for copyright balance in trade agreements is now available in both English and French WASHINGTON – Today, over seventy international copyright law...
View ArticleTrade Deals Should Favour, Not Restrict, Access to Knowledge
International Federation of Library Associations, Link (CC-BY) The work of libraries relies on the existence of a modern and complete set of exceptions and limitations to copyright. While national...
View ArticleUACT STATEMENT REGARDING CHILEAN CONGRESS RESOLUTION CALLING ON THE PRESIDENT...
[Manon Ress, Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment, Link] UACT applauds the Chilean Congress resolution calling on the President to advance the compulsory licensing request on HCV drugs made in March...
View ArticleLies, Distortions, and False Promise: The U.S. Position on Compulsory...
[Brook Baker] Once again the U.S. is unbelievably duplicitous in its 2018 Special 301 Report on permissible uses of compulsory and government use licenses by its trading partners, including most...
View Article3D Printing Shakes Up Intellectual Property Rights
The emerging trend in 3D printing of products has resulted in a massive spike in patents being classified, according to QUT researchers. The QUT Faculty of Law Intellectual Property and Innovation...
View ArticleActing Public Advocate and Speaker Johnson, Elected Officials, The Prep4all...
[NYC Councilmember Press Release] cting Public Advocate and New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Council Member Carlina Rivera, Assembly Member Dick Gottfried, former State Senator Tom Duane,...
View ArticleNow Is the Time for Open Access Policies—Here’s Why
[Victoria Heath and Brigitte Vézina] Over the weekend, news emerged that upset even the most ardent skeptics of open access. Under the headline, “Trump vs Berlin” the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag...
View ArticleQUT Forum on Access to Essential Medicines — 15 February 2017
This forum was hosted by the QUT Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program and the Australian Centre for Health Law Research in the QUT Faculty of Law to coincide with the visit of the...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Challenges Copyright Law and Library Lending
Major publishing houses including HarperCollins and Penguin are suing the non-profit Internet Archive for its National Emergency Library, set up to provide access to books during the COVID-19 shutdown....
View ArticleIntellectual Property and Education in the Age of COVID-19
Research Symposium, QUT Faculty of Law, 29 July 2020 Overview This event will consider the relationship between intellectual property and higher education in the age of the public health crisis over...
View ArticleMedicines Patent Pool signs first Covid-19 licence agreement with Merck Sharp...
[Medicines Law & Policy] The Medicines Patent Pool, a UN-backed organisation whose mission is to expand access to essential medicines around the world, today announced its first agreement on a...
View ArticleLibrarian of Congress Adopts Research-Friendly Exemptions to Section 1201
[Jonathan Band] On October 27, 2021, the Librarian of Congress issued new exemptions to the prohibition on the circumvention of technological protection measures set forth in the 17 U.S.C. 1201....
View ArticleCreative Commons Publishes Policy Paper: Towards Better Sharing of Cultural...
[Brigitte Vézina] Over the past few months, members of the Creative Commons (CC) Copyright Platform along with CC friends from around the world have worked together to develop a policy paper addressing...
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