[Andy, TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY-NC)] A copyright amendment approved by the Italian authorities breaches the EU convention on human rights, an ISP organization has warned. The law allows the Italian Communications Regulatory Authority to issue “take down, stay down” instructions to…
The Mandela Institute in collaboration with Google, Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), and the American University Washington College of Law will host a roundtable discussion on the second version of the Copyright Act Amendment Bill ahead of its scheduled August…
Anubha Sinha, CIS-India Reposted from EIFL,org, Link (CC-BY) On 9 May 2017, a five year court battle between publishers and universities finally came to an end when the Supreme Court of India dismissed an appeal by the Indian Reprographic Rights…
[Mark Schweizer for IP Kat, Link (CC-BY)] According to its media release of 11 July 2017, the German Federal Court of Justice confirmed the decision of the Federal Patent Court granting Merck a compulsory license to EP 1 422 218 owned by Shionogi.…
Click here for the full submission (PDF) Excerpt: Filmmakers support the added detail that the 2017 bill gives to what is currently a “fair dealing” exception, now proposed to be called “fair use.” Much that is in the proposed fair use…
Monika Ermert, IP-Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA) The European Parliament today with over 600 votes adopted the legal instruments to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty on access to reading material for the visually impaired. The treaty, adopted by the members of the World…
Today, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced a request for public input for a performance review of all the United States’ existing international trade and investment agreements. In an April 29, 2017 executive order, President Trump directed USTR and…
[Mitch Stoltz, EFF Deeplinks Blog, Link, (CC-BY)] The U.S. Copyright Office just released a long-awaited report about Section 1201, the law that bans circumventing digital restrictions on copyrighted works. Despite years of evidence that the social costs of the law…
[Andy, TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY-NC)] The MPAA and RIAA have made their positions clear in submissions to the North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations. Both want allies Canada and Mexico to commit to tightened copyright law, including restrictions on safe harbor…
Without a refocus on user rights, transparency, and meaningful public input, the agreement will become a bonanza for copyright maximalists [Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] This week Creative Commons submitted comments to the Office of the United States Trade…
[María Juliana Soto, Karisma, Link (CC-BY)] Karisma Foundation, a Colombian civil society organization, is launching a crowdfunding campaign to support Diego Gómez, a biologist accused of copyright infringement for sharing a scientific research online. When he was a college student…
Tabitha Ha, Stop AIDS, Link In the past month, I joined two major global gatherings for multiple stakeholders, including high-level government representatives, to tackle the issue of high drug prices as well as access to medicines more broadly. What struck…