New Open Access Button Apps Find Free Access to Scientific and Scholarly...
Open Access Button press release, Link, CC-BY Joseph McArthur, +447732634892 | media@openaccessbutton.org London, England. The Open Access Button today launched a suite of new apps to help researchers,...
View ArticleEuropean Copyright Society: Limitations and Exceptions as Key Elements of the...
Opinion on the Judgment of the CJEU in Case C-201/13 Deckmyn Abstract: In this opinion, the European Copyright Society (ECS) puts on record its views on the issues raised by the Judgment of the Court...
View ArticleCreative Commons: State of the Commons
Millions of creators around the world use CC licenses to give others permission to use their work in ways that they wouldn’t otherwise be allowed to. Those millions of users are the proof that Creative...
View ArticleSupreme Court Says No to Bayer, Upholds Compulsory License on Nexavar
[Lawyers Collective press release, Link] In a momentous decision that would have wide-ranging implication for access to medicines, the Supreme Court of India refused to entertain Bayer’s appeal to set...
View ArticleU.S. International Trade Commission Releases Report on “Trade, Investment,...
The U.S. International Trade Commission has released its report on Indian trade, investment and industrial policies, including but not limited to intellectual property rights. The full report is here...
View ArticleThe Shadow of a Treaty
[Reposted with permission from the Yale Journal on Regulation Notice and Comment blog. Link] On December 15th, the Ninth Circuit heard en banc oral arguments in a contentious copyright case: Garcia v....
View ArticleCopyright Policy and the Right to Science and Culture
[Cross-posted from Afro-Leo, Link (CC-BY)] A report entitled ‘Copyright policy and the right to science and culture’ authored by the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Farida Shaheed...
View ArticleThe Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age
[Reposted from thehaguedeclaration.com] The Hague Declaration is currently in draft form. The draft contains a list of basic principles. We welcome your comments on the text below. Please share your...
View ArticleThe Medicines Patent Pool Signs Licensing Agreement with MSD for Paediatric...
Company joins five other MPP patent holders in efforts to improve HIV paediatric care [Reposted from the Medicines Patent Pool, Link, (CC-BY-NC-ND)] The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced a licence...
View ArticleGovernance of Online Intermediaries: Observations From a Series of National...
Urs Gasser and Wolfgang Schulz Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2015-5 February 2015 | Full Text (SSRN) A. Summary A review of online intermediary governance frameworks and issues in Brazil, the...
View ArticleYale 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...
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