The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announces the release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for…
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest SOPA and PIPA Derailed by Popular Objection; Opponents Point to ACTA Support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) collapsed last week in the face of…
Support for the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT-IP Act collapsed last week in the face of massive public outcry and a January 18 internet blackout. Google reported that millions people signed its petition against the legislation. Senate Majority…
On December 19, the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee voted to make the EU Legal Service Opinion on ACTA publicly available. [Click here for the full Opinion]. At the subsequent hearing on ACTA, Swedish Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström argued…
Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has announced a January 18 hearing to “examine the potential impact of Domain Name Service (DNS) and search engine blocking on American cyber-security, jobs and the Internet…
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Reps. Issa and Maloney Introduce Bill Threatening Open Access Research The Research Works Act (H.R.3699) introduced by Reps. Issa and Maloney would prohibit grantwriting federal agencies from requiring that research resulting from…
The Research Works Act (H.R.3699) introduced by Reps. Issa and Maloney would prohibit federal agencies that give grants from requiring that grant-funded research be made freely available online. Section 2 of the bill reads: “No Federal agency may adopt, implement,…
On December 28, USTR published a request comments in the Federal Register for the 2012 Special 301 Report, its annual report which identifies countries that “deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights or deny fair and equitable market…
Spain’s newly elected Popular Party has implemented the controversial Law for Economic Sustainability (informally known as the “Sinde law” after outgoing Culture Minister Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde). Under the Sinde Law, rightholders can identify websites hosting infringing content to a government commission…
The Brazilian Instituto nacional da Propriedade Industrial announced it will fast track its decision on whether or not to grant patents on the heat-stablized versions of lopinavir+ritonavir (brand names: Kaletra, Aluvia) and ritonavir (Norvir). Both drugs are important antiretroviral drugs…
In a blog post on the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure website, Ante Wessells describes the committee’s discussion of ACTA. MEP Marielle Gallo (Rapporteur for ACTA) argued that the agreement is compatible with current EU law. She pointed to…
Yesterday the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) published a report on its review of Notorious Markets, in which it “identifies selected markets, including ones on the Internet, that are reportedly engaged in piracy and counterfeiting, according to information submitted to USTR…