By Andres Izquierdo On September 20 and 21, 2023, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) hosted its Eighth Session of the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Frontier Technologies. Central to the discourse was the pivotal role of training…
Amidst the copyright reform debate in South Africa, the Cultural and Creative Industries Federation of South Africa (CCIFSA) recently initiated its #NationalShutDownMarch campaign, in opposition of the reform. The article highlights how the CCIFSA has positioned itself as a quasi-political…
Creative Commons (CC) has engaged with a wide variety of stakeholders such as artists and content creators, as part of its ongoing community consultation on generative AI, to explore ways of addressing the artists’ concerns. CC has published an open…
This book examines the numerous adverse and unintended consequences of the shift to ed-tech as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It documents the consequences of widespread educational technologies, specifically how technology-first solutions left a global majority of learners behind…
On the 18th and 19th of September 2023 the Heads of State and Government and high representatives, met at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, at the Sustainable Development Goals Summit, to review progress and accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda…
In a recent decision of the D.C. Circuit, in American Society for Testing and Materials v. PublicResource.org, the Court affirmed the District Court’s finding that the publishing of the Code of Federal Regulations online constituted fair use by Public Resource.…
By Viviana Rangel – Patricia Díaz The Latin American Alliance for Fair Access to Knowledge highlights in an article for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) blog the critical role of copyright in enabling efficient AI research with massive data. It underscores the current…
Vyas discusses copyright’s “balance” metaphor, alleged to have originated in the 1785 British case Sayre v. Moore. This paper aims to contribute to the exploration of the genealogy of this concept in copyright, especially in the Indian context and examines…
Klosek highlights the challenges faced by libraries in the United States, such as not having enough bargaining power to retain their rights when negotiating with vendors for digital scholarly content, and inability to preserve scholarly works. There are however, some…
The article titled ‘SA’s new copyright bills could sink Agoa – Contentious laws could ‘substantially lower’ protections,’ published in The Sunday Times on July 30, 2023, prompted surprise due to its assertions. While encountering resistance from key stakeholders like rightsholders,…
[Ruwan Fernando] Apart from the basic statutory definition in section 65 of the Intellectual Property Act of Sri Lanka, there do not appear to be any detailed statutory guidelines or judicial decisions to provide any framework for the assessment of inventive step in Sri Lanka. The current statutory definition is highly insufficient to evaluate the standard of obviousness in relation to biotechnological and pharmaceutical claims based on a combination or modification of a prior art reference.
PIJIP Director Sean Fiil-Flynn and North-West University Professor Klaus Beiter submitted comments to the U.S. Treade Representative related to the annual review of the eligibility of sub-Saharan African countries to receive the benefits of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Their submission counters claims made by the International Intellectual Property Alliance regarding South Africa’s compliance with international copyright treaties.