UK to Provide Open Access to Government-Funded Research
The British government has announced that it will make government-funded research freely available beginning next year. The Research Council’s UK announcement states that the new policy “will apply to...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Announces Open Access Policy for Publicly Funded Research
The European Commission has announced a new policy that will require open access to articles funded through its “Horizon 2020″ program, an €80 billion initiative to drive research, innovation and...
View ArticlePanelists at the XIX International AIDS Conference Discuss IPR and “The...
This blog is a summary of a panel titled “The Future of Affordable Antiretroviral Treatment: Trends in Patents and Price” at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC on July 25, 2012....
View ArticleMedicines Patent Pool Side Event at the International AIDS Conference on Ways...
This blog is a summary of a July 25 satellite event at the XIX International AIDS Conference titled “Improving Access and Innovation in HIV Treatment: The Medicines Patent Pool and Other Approaches.”...
View ArticlePublic Statement on the U.S. Proposal for a Limitations and Exceptions Clause...
[UPDATE, AUGUST 3: The text of the U.S. proposal has been leaked and posted online by KEI here.] Professors Peter Jaszi, Michael Carroll and Sean Flynn Program on Information Justice and Intellectual...
View ArticleThe Journey of Open Government and Open Data in Moldova
[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...
View ArticleCall for Input for Open Government Standards
Access 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...
View ArticleAustralian Digital Alliance: Potential $600M annual economic boost from...
[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...
View ArticleCopyright Exceptions in the TPP
In law, you have the rule, and then you have the exception to the rule. The rules in copyright law have, and always have had, exceptions that serve the public interest. Given that the rights granted...
View ArticlePanama Passes Incredibly Unbalanced Copyright Bill: Internet and User Rights...
By Sean Flynn, with translation assistance of Lina Diaz and Sofia Castillo, American University Washington College of Law Yesterday, in a situation a similar to Colombia’s rushed passage of “Ley Lleras...
View ArticleIndonesia Licenses Patents for Seven HIV & Hepatitis B Medicines
Precedent-Setting Government Order has Extraordinary Lifesaving Potential On September 3, the government of Indonesia took a quiet but exceptionally important step to expand access to medicines and...
View ArticleRuling for HathiTrust in Important Fair Use Case
Judge Harold Baer has issued a decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust that equals a big win for universities and for fair use. The HathiTrust is a digital collection of millions of scanned books from...
View ArticleBritish Columbia to Offer Students Free Textbooks Under Creative Commons...
British Columbia’s Ministry of Advanced Education, Innovation and Technology has announced that it will “offer students free online, open textbooks for the 40 most popular post-secondary courses.” The...
View ArticleStudy Shows Positive Impact of Fair Use Singapore
A new paper by Roya Ghafele and Benjamin Gibert provides empirical evidence that Singapore’s adoption of fair use into its copyright law had a positive effect on it economy. The authors examine data...
View ArticleUgandan Center for Health Human Rights Publishes Guidelines for Changes to...
The Ugandan Center for Health Human Rights and Development has published a set of Model Provisions to Promote Access to Affordable Medicines in the country’s IP legislation that has been under debate...
View ArticleOpen Access Week Begins Today
October 22-28 is Open Access Week, “a global event for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with...
View ArticleOpen Source Drug Discovery in Practice: A Case Study
Abstract 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...
View ArticleIndonesian Compulsory Licenses Show Values of Pro-Access TRIPS-Flexibility...
It is a tremendous victory for people living with HIV in Indonesia that it has issued new compulsory licenses on seven anti-retroviral medicines, allowing the government to access generic versions of...
View ArticleOpen access in Africa – green and gold, the impact factor, ‘mainstream’ and...
[Reposted from http://www.gray-area.co.za/] I have been following the debate raging in the UK and beyond about whether the Finch Commission and the Research Councils UK - and then the EC with a...
View ArticleNature Publishing Group to Allow Authors to License Their Work Under Creative...
Earlier this month the Nature Publishing Group announced a new policy allowing authors of articles published in all 19 of its journals to publish under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license....
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