Republican Group Publishes Proposals for Copyright Reforms, Retracts Report...
Last Friday, the Republican Study Committee published a report by staffer Derek Khanna titled Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix It. The brief received immediate attention and...
View ArticlePhilippines Copyright Legislation Clears Conference Committee
Legislation making a number of changes to the Philippines’ Republic Act 8293 (the Intellectual Property Code) has cleared the conference committee. The law makes a number of changes aimed at...
View ArticleAccess Victories and the Global Kaletra Campaign
[Reposted with permission from citizen.org] November 10, 2012 marked the first anniversary of the global Kaletra campaign, a campaign comprising health groups in 12 countries challenging pharmaceutical...
View ArticleGermany’s Bad, and Illegal, Proposal to Require “Ancillary Copyright”...
German news publishers are trying to require licensing fees to be paid to them for indexing their content by search companies through a proposal that may move forward in the German Parliament later...
View ArticleAfrica’s First Creative Commons 3.0 Licenses!
[Aurelia J. Schultz, Creative Commons Uganda. Original post on CC Affiliates blog.] We are pleased to announce the launch of the Creative Commons 3.0 Uganda licenses. Since joining the Creative Commons...
View ArticleEU Parliament Adopts Digital Freedom Strategy for Foreign Policy
Yesterday the EU Parliament adopted a resolution on a Digital Freedom Strategy in EU Foreign Policy, which focuses on human rights and access to the internet. The resolution and accompanying report...
View ArticlePatent-less Smartphone Innovation and Global Technology Markets
[Cross posted from Patent Progress] This weekend I attended the Second Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest held in Rio de Janeiro. The Congress is intended to draw attention to the...
View ArticleOER Law Passes in São Paulo, Awaits Governor’s Signature
On December 20, the state of São Paulo approved PL 989/2011, which establishes a policy of Open Educational Resources. Article one holds that educational resources developed by the government “should...
View ArticleCompulsory License for Anti-Cancer Drugs – Update from Campaign for...
Press Release by the Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab CONTACT: Kalyani Menon-Sen: +91 9910306382, kmenonsen[at] gmail.com Leena Menghaney: +91 9811365412, leenamenghaney [at] gmail.com The Campaign...
View ArticleEIFL starts an OA project in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
[Posting in the Electronic Information for Libraries Newsletter] “Open access: knowledge sharing and sustainable scholarly communication in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda” is a new EIFL regional project...
View ArticleIndia Hears Appeal of Compulsory License for Cancer Drug Sorafenib
India’s Intellectual Property Appellate Board is hearing Bayer’s appeal to the government’s compulsory license for patents on the drug Sorafenib (sold under the brand name Nexavar by Bayer). This...
View ArticleColombian Court Strikes FTA Copyright Bill: “Ley Lleras 2″
Our Colombian Colleagues Marcela Palacio Puera, Andres Izquierdo, and Carolina Botero have drawn our attention to the breaking news that the Colombian Constitutional Court has struck down the Free...
View ArticleThe EU Commission’s Outrageous Attempt to Avoid Copyright Reform
[Reposted from La Quadrature du Net, CC-BY-SA] Brussels, 4 Feb 2013 — Today starts “Licences for Europe”, an initiative by the European Commission to discuss the issues of today’s copyright regime....
View ArticleCreative Commons Canada Participates in the Open Government Licence Consultation
[Posted on creativecommons.ca, CC-BY] In response to the Government of Canada’s call for comments on the Proposed Open Government Licence Agreement, Creative Commons Canada submitted the feedback...
View ArticleSão Paulo State Governor Vetoes Open Educational Resources Bill
[Reposted from Recursos Educacionais Abertos. Authored by Carolina Rossini, Priscila Gonsales and Debora Sebriam. Translated by Carolina Rossini (CC-BY)] We are sorry communicate that the São Paulo...
View ArticleLetter from 376 Civil Society Groups Supporting an Extension of the TRIPS...
Attached here is a letter from hundreds of civil society groups (representing millions of people worldwide) to members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) urging them to support the request and draft...
View ArticleMedicines Patent Pool, ViiV Healthcare Collaborate to Treat Paediatric HIV
[MPP press release, (CC-BY-NC-ND)] The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) today announces the launch of a new collaboration with ViiV Healthcare – a joint venture of GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Shionogi –...
View ArticleNewly Implemented Korean Fair Use and the Three Step Test
The approach to copyright limitations and exceptions differs significantly in each country depending on what models they are following. Generally speaking, there are three models of limitations and...
View ArticleDetailed Analysis of the Medicines Patent Pool-ViiV Pediatric ARV License and...
Introduction: On February 27, the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and ViiV Healthcare UK Limited (ViiV) announced their License Agreement on an older antiretroviral (ARV), abacavir (ABC), for pediatric...
View ArticleCreative Commons and the Openness of Open Access
[Excerpt from essay published in the New England Journal of Medicine] The Internet has inspired multiple movements toward greater openness — most prominently, open access, open data, open science, and...
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