Authors: Christopher Anthony Cotropia and James Gibson Abstract: The nearly twenty-year history of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provisions has been marked by criticism from content owners, online service providers, and end users. Content owners complain about the…
How TTIP may obstruct progress towards sustainable access to medicines [Tessel Mellema, Sophie Bloemen and Peter Maybarduk, Link, (CC-BY-NC)] The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations pose serious risks to Europeans’ access to medicines and affordable healthcare. TTIP is…
Catherine Tomlinson, Yuan Qiong Hu, Julia Hill and Claire Waterhouse Fix the Patent Laws Campaign Full Text (PDF) Executive Summary: In this report, we present nine case studies that demonstrate how systemic shortcomings in South Africa’s patent laws negatively impact…
Author: Susan Isiko Strba Abstract: This article considers both national and multilateral approaches to facilitate access to copyrighted materials for educational purposes in developing countries. It emphasizes the need for both normative re-ordering and institutional reform. In case of normative…
Authors: Hannah Brennan, Amy Kapczynski, Christine H. Monahan, and Zain Rizvi Abstract: High drug prices are creating serious health and fiscal problems in the United States today. This reality is vividly illustrated by recently approved medicines to treat Hepatitis C.…
Author: Matthew Sag Abstract: This Article shows how the substantive balance of copyright law has been overshadowed online by the system of intermediary safe harbors enacted as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) in 1998. The Internet safe…
South Centre Research Paper No. 70 Author: Carlos M. Correa The incorporation of intellectual property into trade agreements has not proven to bring about the promised benefits. The premises that have underpinned the global strengthening and expansion of intellectual property…
Authors: Neil Butcher, Sarah Hoosen, Lisbeth Levey, and Derek Moore Summary: Developing early literacy requires access to structured decodable texts and levelled readers, an array of supplementary reading materials (SRMs), and teachers trained in literacy development methods and teaching in…
Author: Amy Adler Abstract: Twenty-five years ago, in a seminal article in the Harvard Law Review, Judge Leval changed the course of copyright jurisprudence by introducing the concept of “transformativeness” into fair use law. Soon thereafter, the Supreme Court embraced…
Authors: Joel Lexchin and Deborah Gleeson Abstract: The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is a large regional trade agreement involving 12 countries. It was signed in principle in February 2016 but has not yet been ratified in any of the participating countries.…
Author: Abhishek Nagaraj Abstract: While digitization projects like Google Books have dramatically increased access to information, this study examines how the ability to reuse digital information and diffuse knowledge to a wider audience critically depends on features of copyright law.…
Author: Peter Yu Abstract: Commissioned for the CEIPI-ICTSD Publication Series, this article discusses the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), with a focus on intellectual property issues. The partnership is currently being negotiated among Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South…