By John Wonderlich. Reposted from the Sunlight Foundation Blog (CC-BY) The G8 countries today released a new declaration, and with it an Open Data Charter policy paper, which together constitute a significant high-level commitment to open data and transparency. Sunlight…
[Reposted from the Afro-Leo blog (CC-BY)] From IP commenttator Chijioke Ifeoma Okorie comes another guest post, this time addressing a sensitive cultural and commercial issue with strong copyright overones: the deployment of open educational resources. Writes Chijoke: Intellectual Property Watch…
[by Philippe Aigrain (CC-BY-SA)(Link)] An endless stream of law proposals, soft-law initiatives and free-trade agreements keeps trying to eradicate or prevent the non-market sharing of digital works between individuals. New strategies are pushed using incentives and threats so that intermediaries will…
It’s hard to find a person who is pleased with the current shape of the copyright system. In most countries. People who attempt to earn a living from this system also try to have digital monitoring systems work for them.…
The following petition has been posted on the White House’s ‘We the People’ site: Less than 1% of printed works globally are accessible to the blind. This is because laws around the world bar printed material from being turned into…
[La Quadrature du Net (CC-BY-SA)(Link)] In a plenary vote, the European Parliament just adopted a mandate to the European Commission explicitly allowing it to “include strong protection of intellectual property rights (IPR)” in the proposed EU-US trade agreement negotiations, the…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Arjun Karki, akarki@ldcwatch.org , +977 9851023254 Prerna Bomzan, prerna@ldcwatch.org , +977 9841209336 Deborah James, djames@cepr.net , +1 (202) 441 6917 On 20 May, global civil society networks LDC Watch and the Our World Is Not For…
Our World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS) Network and LDC Watch. Dear Ambassador Suescum, We are outraged with the manner in which informal consultations are being conducted on the issue of extension of the LDC’s transition period. We find the…
[Posted to the Communia blog by Anne-Catherine Lorrain, (CC0 1.0)] The mission on culture at the digital era commissioned by the French government and supervised by Pierre Lescure, rather pompously entitled ‘Acte II de l’exception culturelle’, released its report this…
[La Quadrature du Net, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Pierre Lescure has handed in his report [fr] on culture at the digital era to French President François Hollande1. La Quadrature du Net denounces a flawed political process revealing the harmful influence of industrial…
9-13 December 2013, Cape Town, South Africa In December 2013, delegates from national and international governmental entities, the private sector, civil society, and academia will gather for five days of interconnected events in Cape Town. Participants will engage with diverse…
[White House press release, May 9, 2013] The Obama Administration today took groundbreaking new steps to make information generated and stored by the Federal Government more open and accessible to innovators and the public, to fuel entrepreneurship and economic growth…