President Obama: intellectual property provsions in the TPP “will help us in our negotiations with China”
Thanks to Inside U.S. Trade for posting the full transcript of President Obama’s October 8 press conference about the government…
Mike Palmedo is the admin for infojustice.org, and he manages interdisciplinary research on copyright exceptions at American University College of Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. He has Masters degrees Economics and in International Affairs, and is an economics PhD candidate.
Skepticism Rises that TPP Will Conclude by End of the Year; Little Progress Made on IP and Access to Medicines
Today, Prime Ministers meeting in Bali in advance of this week’s APEC meeting expressed skepticism that negotiators will finalize a…
Article 19 Comments on Italy’s Draft Copyright Enforcement Regulation
The civil society group Article 19 (named after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantee of freedom of opinion and…
Attorneys Discuss the Role of Empirical Evidence in Debates Over Copyright Reform
On Thursday September 26, 2013, American University Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) hosted The Law and Economics…
Economists Discuss the State of Empirical Research on Copyright User Rights At American University Event
Yesterday, American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property held an even the Law and Economics of Copyright Users’…
Eli Lilly Formally Requests Arbitration Against Canada Under NAFTA in Dispute Over Drug Patents
On September 12, Eli Lilly formally submitted a Notice of Arbitration against Canada under the rules of the North American…
Sep 26: The Law and Economics of Copyright User Rights
On September 26, AUWCL’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property will hold a public conference on The Law and…
Peruvian Legislators File Motion Seeking Public Debate on the Trans Pacific Partnership
On August 28, a group of members of the Peruvian legislature – the Parlamentario Acción Popular-Frente Amplio – proposed a…
Vietnam’s Decree 72 on Internet Services Aims to Fight Piracy, Raises Human Rights Concerns
Vietnam’s controversial new “Decree 72 on the Management, Provision and Use of Internet Services and Online Information” went into effect…
USTR Requests Comments for 2014 NTE Report on Foreign Trade Barriers
Earlier this week, the U.S. Trade Representative issued a request for public comments regarding the 2014 National Trade Estimate Report…
Chilean, Malaysian, and U.S. Government Officials Weigh in on Intellectual Property and the TPP
The nineteenth round of Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations will begin this weekend in Brunei Darussalam. In the last few weeks,…
Chilean Senators Formally Request Public Debate on the Trans Pacific Partnership
Chilean Senators Navarro, Gomez and Tuma introduced a proyecto de acuerdo to the Senate that asks the President to open…