[Reposted from La Quadrature du Net, CC-BY-SA] Brussels, 4 Feb 2013 — Today starts “Licences for Europe”, an initiative by the European Commission to discuss the issues of today’s copyright regime. Instead of planning for a broad reform that would…
[by Amy Kapczynski] Chan Park, Bhaven Sampat and I recently published in PLoS, perhaps of interest to folks here. We provide data about the ubiquity and significance of so-called “secondary” patents in pharma (e.g. salt patents, polymorph patents, dosage and…
[Reposted from the AFINET website] The Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET), the Public Health Association and three other health organisations have made a submission to the review of pharmaceutical patents because the issue of patents and medicine is a…
AUTHOR: Peter C. DiCola ABSTRACT: “This article is based on an original survey of over 5,000 musicians nationwide. The survey results demonstrate the diversity of the population of musicians, in terms of genre, income bracket, demographics, education, and many other…
[Posting in the Electronic Information for Libraries Newsletter] “Open access: knowledge sharing and sustainable scholarly communication in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda” is a new EIFL regional project funded by Spider, the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions DSV, Department of Computer…
[by Kingsley Egbuonu; reposted from Afro-IP] Afro-IP thanks Chukwuyere Izuogu, Streamsowers & Köhn for drawing our attention to this press release that Nigeria’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke SAN has granted the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) an approval to issue the Copyright…
Statement by Jane Kelsey, University of Auckland: The New Zealand government has imposed unprecedented restrictions on registered stakeholders as it hosts the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in Auckland this week. “We turned up this morning and found we are locked out…
[Aurelia J. Schultz, Creative Commons Uganda. Original post on CC Affiliates blog.] We are pleased to announce the launch of the Creative Commons 3.0 Uganda licenses. Since joining the Creative Commons family in March of 2011, the Ugandan team has…
We, the undersigned civil society groups, urge Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to suspend any announcement to enter into negotiations towards the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) until there has been a comprehensive, clear and thorough study of both positive and negative consequences,…
[By Carolina Rossini, reposted from EFF’s Deeplinks blog] Internet service providers (ISPs) are the conduits of free expression on the Internet. However, many international and national law and policy proposals, including trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement(TPP) and others,…
The following is an excerpt from the full paper by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, published as a working paper for the St. Louis Federal Reserve. The full paper is available here. The case against patents can be summarized…
[Written by Jenny Cascante Gonzalez · Translated by Jane Ellis – posted on Global Voices CC-BY-3.0] Thousands of students participated in a march in San José on Tuesday, October 9, 2012, protesting for their right to photocopy textbooks for educational…