PIJIP Research Paper no. 2012-03 Author: Mohammed El Said Abstract: Leaked diplomatic cables related to the United States’ foreign policy implementing and enforcing intellectual property in developing countries draw a bleak picture. U.S. interest groups and local agents collaborate to…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 6, 2011 CONTACTS Sean Flynn: 202-294-5749 | sflynn@wcl.american.edu Brook Baker: 617-259-0760 | b.baker@neu.edu Margot Kaminski: margot.kaminski@gmail.com As trade officials from nine countries meet in Malaysia for the tenth round of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations, a report…
Sean Flynn, a lecturer at American University Washington College of Law and Associate Director of its Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, testified to negotiators of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement in Peru this week that they should reject…
2011 Special 301 Report
PIJIP fellow Jimmy Koo has written a section-by-section analysis of the US-proposed intellectual property chapter of the the Trans Pacific Partnership. The document lists each article and compares it to US law, TRIPS, and/or other trade agreements where appropriate. Please…
EXCERPT: “…Your suggestion that draft negotiating text and position papers should be made public is understandable but problematic. First, this would only be possible if all parties agreed. Many negotiating parties would consider releasing the text as a breach of…
PIJIP’s Peter Jaszi and the Center for Social Media’s Pat Aufderheide, co-facilitated by UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Urban and Poetry Foundation’s Kate Coles, have just released a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry (PDF). The code is a…
Download as a PDF Jimmy Koo, PIJIP Fellow January 28, 2010 Generally 1. Each section of ACTA should be limited to copyrights and trademark rights. [1] See Kaminski Paper p. 28. 2. The mandatory obligations of ACTA parties are too…