An Open Letter to the ICANN Community: Not the Community Priority Evaluation We Intended
This post was originally published on CircleID by Kathy Kleiman To the ICANN Community, Today, I share a warning about serious changes to…
Ethical Data Scraping for Research – Expert Workshop held in Amsterdam
A unique, expert-led workshop on ethical data scraping was organized by Professor Niva Elkin-Koren and Dr. Maayan Perel and hosted…
Balanced Copyright Protection in the UK-India CETA
Jonathan Band The full text of the Intellectual Property Chapter of the United Kingdom-India Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement,…
Excerpts from Delegation Statements on the SCCR at the 2025 General Assembly
Sean Flynn, Luca Schirru, Talia Deady In a previous blog post, we analyzed the statements of regional groups and delegations…
WIPO General Assembly Meeting on SCCR Expresses Consensus for Progress on Broadcast and L&E Instruments
Sean Flynn, Luca Schirru, Talia Deady The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held its General Assembly (GA) this week, including…
Tanuja Garde Appointed Director of WTO’s IP Division
In July 2025, Tanuja Garde assumed the role of Director of the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division at…
A first look into the JURI draft report on copyright and AI
This post was originally published on COMMUNIA by Teresa Nobre and Leander Nielbock Last week we saw the first draft of the long-anticipated own-initiative…
WIPO Report on UDRP lacks structural separation and data, and throws aside clear free speech protections in the global domain name system
Kathryn Kleiman Twenty-five years ago, the then-new Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) adopted a virtual dispute policy…
The GRULAC proposal on remuneration rights at WIPO SCCR: Understanding the interface with national debates and the issue of corporate power
Speaking at the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights Symposium on 16 June 2025, Vitor Ido of the University…
Unfair Licensing Practices in the Library Sector
Teresa Nobre outlines a chilling range of practices by publishers to try to restrict the ability of researchers to conduct…
Malaysia exhorts Human Rights Council to prioritize the primacy of public health and human rights over commercial interests
This post was originally published on KEI Online by Thiru Balasubramaniam On Tuesday afternoon, 24 June 2025, the Core Group (Bangladesh, Brazil,…
WIPO Program and Budget Committee : US opposes all references to the SDGS from the Proposed Program and Budget for 2026/2027
This post was originally published on KEI Online by Thiru The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) convened the 39th session of its Program…