Australian Law Commission Report Released: “Key Recommendation Is For the...
[Official Release, Link] The ALRC was asked to consider whether the current exceptions and statutory licences in the Copyright Act are adequate and appropriate in the digital era. The Report, tabled...
View Article“Really Open Education”– Reflections from Creative Commons Policy Debate
[CC European Open Education Policy Project, Link, (CC-BY)] On the 18th of February, Creative Commons organized a debate on „Really Open Education. Domestic Policies for Open Educational Resources”,...
View ArticleTidewater Community College Associate Degree Using All OER Curriculum –...
[Cross posted from CCUSA, Link (CC-BY)] Today, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition organized a Congressional briefing on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Open Education Week....
View ArticleOpen Education Week: A Focus on Latin America
[Reposted from Creative Commons Affiliates Blog, Link (CC-BY)]On Thursday, March 14 Fundación Karisma, in collaboration with UNESCO and Creative Commons will launch the report “Public Expenditure On...
View ArticleOpen Educational Resources Expand Access to Higher Education in the United...
Leaders in the Obama Administration, in state governments, and in corporate America have acknowledged the urgency of increasing access to higher education in the United States – particularly through...
View ArticleWikimedia-RU Changes Russian Civil Code: Amendments Include Recognition of...
Linar Khalitov, Wikimedia Russia, Link (CC-BY) On March 12, 2014, the Federal Law that introduced changes to the prime source of Russian civil law, the Civil Code, was signed. This sign-off brought to...
View ArticleNew Treatments for Hepatitis C Virus: Strategies for Achieving Universal Access
Pr. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, HepCoalition, Link 185 million people across the world are infected with HCV; 150 million are chronically infected. The HCV pandemic is concentrated in middle-income...
View ArticleCopyright Rules OK? What EIFL Librarians say
[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link, CC-BY)] Libraries in EIFL partner countries perform a vital role getting reading and other materials into the hands of people who need information and...
View ArticleLaw Professors File Brief in U.S. Supreme Court : International Law Supports...
30 international intellectual property law professors from around the world filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court today in ABC v. Aereo. Aereo is being accused of being directly liable for copyright...
View ArticlePeruvian Civil Society Organizations Demand that Government Issue a...
Pharmaceutical companies’ abuse of monopolistic position results in million-dollar overspending in public purchases. [Javier Llamoza and Ana Romero] Atazanavir is an antiretroviral, second-line...
View ArticleLaunch of the Open Policy Network
[Timothy Vollmer, Open Policy Network, Link, (CC-BY)] Today we’re excited to announce the launch of the Open Policy Network. The Open Policy Network, or OPN for short, is a coalition of organizations...
View ArticleLibraries Applaud Landmark Copyright Ruling Affirming Fair Use
[Library Copyright Alliance Press Release, Link] The Library Copyright Alliance is extremely pleased with today’s decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Authors Guild v....
View ArticlePediatric HIV Treatment Initiative Aims to Promote the Development and...
The Pediatric HIV Treatment Initiative was launched today at an event on Capitol Hill. The initiative plans to foster the development, manufacture, and distribution of pediatric formulations of...
View ArticleCongressional Testimony on “Moral Rights, Termination Rights, Resale Royalty,...
[Cross posted from Creative Commons-USA, Link, (CC-BY)] Chairman Coble, Ranking Member Nadler, Chairman Goodlatte, Ranking Member Conyers, and members of the Subcommittee, my name is Michael Carroll,...
View ArticleEducational Resources Development: Mapping Copyright Exceptions and...
[Cross posted from the European Open Edu Policy Project, Link (CC-BY)] It is well known that the rules that allow for certain educational uses of copyrighted works under certain conditions without...
View ArticleAIDS Activists Demand New Model for the HIV Response
[Lotti Rutter, Treatment Action Campaign, Link (CC-BY)] In 2011, the UN and member states set a goal of reaching 15 million people on AIDS treatment by 2015—a goal many questioned but that will be met...
View ArticleCreative Commons and CCUSA Letter to Department of Education on Open...
[Cross posted from CCUSA, Link (CC-BY)] Today, Creative Commons and Creative Commons U.S.A. are sending a letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan supporting the Department of Education’s (DOE)...
View ArticleMoneyweb vs. Fin24: South African Court to Find Whether News Aggregation...
[Reposted from Aro-IP, Link (CC-BY)] Moneyweb is suing Fin24 for copyright infringement arising out of Fin24’s (re-)publication of eight articles which had been initially published by Moneyweb (see a...
View ArticleEcuador Takes One Step Forward for Health, and One Step Back
Issues New Compulsory Licenses; Signs Harmful Trade Agreement with the EU [Luz Marina Umbasia and Peter Maybarduk, Link to PDF] In July, Ecuador issued four compulsory licenses for medicines targeting...
View ArticleTrans Pacific Partnership Leak Would Ban Internet TV
Today’s leak of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement intellectual property chapter includes a controversial provision aimed at preventing every country in the world from permitting internet...
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