[Office of Sen. Grassely, Press Release, Link] In order to help the public navigate a world in which software makes virtually everything function, from refrigerators to tractors, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)…
[Catherine Saez, IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] The intellectual property committee of the World Trade Organization is meeting this week with a full agenda. The highlight of the agenda is the extension of a waiver allowing least developed countries to choose…
[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] EIFL and the Kenya Library and Information Services Consortium (KLISC) have jointly responded to a public consultation organized by the Kenya Copyright Board on proposals to provide web blocking measures in cases of online…
Fundación Vía Libre reports that Fundación Vía LibreZ report that Liliana Mazure, Gloria Bidegain, Susana Canela, Gastón harispe, Héctor Recalde y Eduardo Seminara have introduced a plan to extend the term of copyright protection to life of the author plus…
[Paul Keller, Communia, Link (Public Domain)] It is generally accepted wisdom that if you do not want something to be noticed you can best announce it on a Friday afternoon. Presenting a study right before the start of the summer…
[Jan Gondol, Creative Commons Blog, Link (CC-BY)] In the midst of the European migrant crisis, the Czech Republic is showing the power of open educational resources (OER). EDUin, a non-profit organization based in Prague worked with the Czech organization of…
[Andy for TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY-NC)] The CEO and chairman of the RIAA says that the current notice and takedown anti-piracy process is both costly and increasingly pointless. Cary Sherman says the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA have forced labels…
[Maira Sutton, EFF, Link (CC-BY)] Copyright restricts all kinds of important, everyday uses of creative works—even worse, these strict rules last nearly two lifetimes for any given work. We are fighting to reform and push back against these restrictions in…
[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link, (CC-BY))] On 3-4 September 2015, EIFL co-organized the first seminar in Nepal dedicated to library copyright issues, in cooperation with our partners, the Nepal Library and Information Consortium (NeLIC). The sub-regional seminar provided an introduction…
Dr Belinda Townsend, Dr Pat Ranald and Dr Deborah Gleeson Click here for full document (PDF). Excerpted IP and ISDS Sections Follow: Leaked negotiating texts by Japan and South Korea for an intellectual property (IP) chapter in RCEP are particularly…
[European Copyright Society] On June 11, 2015, the Advocate-General Pedro Cruz Villalón delivered his Opinion in the HP Belgium v. Reprobel case now pending before the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU, case C-572/13). This Opinion and the underlying…
[Meera Nair, Fair Duty Blog, Link (CC-BY)] My last post focused on a very one-sided report bemoaning the fortunes (or lack thereof) of the educational publishing industry. That industry apparently needs our support in the form of continued high-priced payments. This,…