The draft bill proposition for a Civil Right’s Based Framework for Internet in Brazil has just reached Congress. The English translation of this version is available here. It is the result of an initiative from the Brazilian Ministry of Justice,…
Translation by Walter Britto of the Brazilian news article “Dilma defende quebra de patentes de medicamentos em discurso na ONU,” by Luciana Xavier, O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper: In her speech during the opening of United Nation’s (UN) Special Summit…
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has just released it’s annual “Special 301 Report”. The report has been instrument for political pressure from USA regarding their ideal enforcement measures for protection of intellectual property rights (IPR). The…
Against the odds, the government of the recently-elected Brazilian President Dilma Roussef didn´t start well for the critics of the Brazilian copyright law and activists of the movement on access to knowledge, who highlights the need to enforce exceptions and…