Civil Society Letter to President of Colombia, re: The Right to Issue a...
[Joint Letter Signed by 122 Experts – PDF in English and Spanish, with Signatures] Dear President Santos: We are lawyers, academics and other experts specializing in fields including intellectual...
View ArticleHouse Democrats Press USTR to Clarify Position on Compulsory Licensing for...
[House Ways and Means Committee Democrats, Link] A group of 15 House Democrats today sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman urging the Administration to clarify its position...
View Article‘Reclaim Invention’ for the Benefit of Everyone
[Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] The vision of the Creative Commons project is universal access to research and education, and full participation in culture to drive a new era of...
View ArticleMaking Creative Commons Licensing Work In Indonesia
[Creative Commons blog, Link (CC-BY)] Below is an update from Creative Commons Indonesia, who recently worked with their national copyright office on proposed changes to law that will secure the...
View ArticleProtecting and Promoting Open Copyright User Rights in International Law
There is increasing attention in international trade and copyright forums to the question of how international law should protect and promote copyright user rights. I presented the following options at...
View ArticleGerman Federal Court of Justice Grants Compulsory License in Preliminary...
[Mark Schweizer for IP Kat, Link (CC-BY)] According to its media release of 11 July 2017, the German Federal Court of Justice confirmed the decision of the Federal Patent Court granting Merck a...
View ArticleMalaysia Inclusion In Gilead Voluntary Licence – A Product Of Compulsory...
[Fifa Rahman for IP-Watch, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Gilead’s announcement today that they would include four middle-income countries (Malaysia, Thailand, Belarus, Ukraine) in their sofosbuvir voluntary...
View ArticleDNDi Welcomes Malaysia’s Move to Secure Access to More Affordable Treatments...
[Drugs for Neglected Diseases press release, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] Malaysia has issued a “government use” licence enabling access to more affordable versions of an expensive and patented medicine to...
View ArticleU.S., Canadian & Mexican Law Professors, Academics and Policy Experts: NAFTA...
Update – November 20: The statement of principles for copyright balance in trade agreements is now available in both English and French WASHINGTON – Today, over seventy international copyright law...
View ArticleTrade Deals Should Favour, Not Restrict, Access to Knowledge
International Federation of Library Associations, Link (CC-BY) The work of libraries relies on the existence of a modern and complete set of exceptions and limitations to copyright. While national...
View ArticleUACT STATEMENT REGARDING CHILEAN CONGRESS RESOLUTION CALLING ON THE PRESIDENT...
[Manon Ress, Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment, Link] UACT applauds the Chilean Congress resolution calling on the President to advance the compulsory licensing request on HCV drugs made in March...
View ArticleLies, Distortions, and False Promise: The U.S. Position on Compulsory...
[Brook Baker] Once again the U.S. is unbelievably duplicitous in its 2018 Special 301 Report on permissible uses of compulsory and government use licenses by its trading partners, including most...
View Article3D Printing Shakes Up Intellectual Property Rights
The emerging trend in 3D printing of products has resulted in a massive spike in patents being classified, according to QUT researchers. The QUT Faculty of Law Intellectual Property and Innovation...
View ArticleActing Public Advocate and Speaker Johnson, Elected Officials, The Prep4all...
[NYC Councilmember Press Release] cting Public Advocate and New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Council Member Carlina Rivera, Assembly Member Dick Gottfried, former State Senator Tom Duane,...
View ArticleNow Is the Time for Open Access Policies—Here’s Why
[Victoria Heath and Brigitte Vézina] Over the weekend, news emerged that upset even the most ardent skeptics of open access. Under the headline, “Trump vs Berlin” the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag...
View ArticleQUT Forum on Access to Essential Medicines — 15 February 2017
This forum was hosted by the QUT Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program and the Australian Centre for Health Law Research in the QUT Faculty of Law to coincide with the visit of the...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Challenges Copyright Law and Library Lending
Major publishing houses including HarperCollins and Penguin are suing the non-profit Internet Archive for its National Emergency Library, set up to provide access to books during the COVID-19 shutdown....
View ArticleIntellectual Property and Education in the Age of COVID-19
Research Symposium, QUT Faculty of Law, 29 July 2020 Overview This event will consider the relationship between intellectual property and higher education in the age of the public health crisis over...
View ArticleMedicines Patent Pool signs first Covid-19 licence agreement with Merck Sharp...
[Medicines Law & Policy] The Medicines Patent Pool, a UN-backed organisation whose mission is to expand access to essential medicines around the world, today announced its first agreement on a...
View ArticleLibrarian of Congress Adopts Research-Friendly Exemptions to Section 1201
[Jonathan Band] On October 27, 2021, the Librarian of Congress issued new exemptions to the prohibition on the circumvention of technological protection measures set forth in the 17 U.S.C. 1201....
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