Elsevier’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 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...
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