[Fifa Rahman and Joel Lexchin, The Malaysia Online, Link] On November 16, 2015 at the launch of the Intellectual Property Rights Index (IPRI) 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, IDEAS Malaysia, a libertarian think tank and proponent of the TPPA spoke about…
[Katri Stanley, Derechos Digitales, Link (CC-BY-SA)] The final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, reached by the 12 member countries on October 5, 2105, caused a near-immediate outcry from many within the digital rights advocacy community at what were broadly…
Letter sent to Canadian officials by Richard Elliot on behalf of ten civil society organizations. …We write to you as Canadian civil society organizations concerned about access to medicines, in Canada and globally. A number of us are members of the Global…
Joint Statement by 14 Civil Society Groups Reposted from the Third World Network, Link Today (6th November), the WTO-TRIPS Council adopted a decision granting Least Developed Countries (LDCs) an exemption from patents and test data protection for pharmaceutical products for…
Universities Allied for Access to Medicine Sign-On Letter signed by 750+ Academics Click here to sign As members of the international academic and scientific community, we call upon the member states of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to negotiate a…
MPP’s voluntary licensing work could benefit millions of patients in low- and middle-income countries [MPP Press Release, September 6, 2015] The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), the world’s only voluntary licensing mechanism in public health, announced an expansion of its mandate…
[Pedro Roffe, Xavier Seuba, Mariano Genovesi, ICTSD, Link] El 5 de octubre de 2015 se oficializó el cierre exitoso de las negociaciones sobre el Acuerdo de Asociación Transpacífico (TPP, por sus siglas en inglés) iniciadas en el 2010[1] y que…
[Reilly Yeo, Open Media, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] Who should make the policies that will determine the future of the Internet? A select list of corporate lobbyists and unelected government officials, meeting without public oversight or involvement? Or — Internet users and…
[Treatment Access Campaign press release, Link (CC-BY-SA)] The Fix the Patent Laws (FTPL) Campaign, today called on the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to end years of pharmaceutical company price gouging and broken promises for patent law reform and…
[Nicole Allen, SPARC, Link (CC-BY)] Today the White House released its 2016-2017 Open Government National Action Plan, which includes commitments to expand access to open educational resources and the results of federally funded research. This exciting development shows continued support from…
Farida Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, presented her report on patents and access to culture to the General Assembly. The report’s summary is below, and the full report is available here. Summary: In the…
[Paul Keller, Communia Association, Link (CC-0)] Over the last month the German publishers who are pushing for ancillary copyright for press publishers on the EU level have encountered two more setbacks in their attempts to turn the ancillary rights that…