[Konstantinos Komaitis. Reposted from internetsociety.org, CC-BY-NC-SA] There is a ‘book famine’ – in the North, apparently, less than 5% of the books published are available in a form accessible by the blind community. In the South, this figure is no…
[MPP press release, (CC-BY-NC-ND)] The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) today announces the launch of a new collaboration with ViiV Healthcare – a joint venture of GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Shionogi – to facilitate greater availability of critically needed medicines for children…
Failure to extend the transition period for least-developed countries to become fully compliant with the TRIPS Agreement could put millions of lives at risk [UNAIDS Press Release] The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Development…
[Reposted from Recursos Educacionais Abertos. Authored by Carolina Rossini, Priscila Gonsales and Debora Sebriam. Translated by Carolina Rossini (CC-BY)] We are sorry communicate that the São Paulo governor Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB) vetoed in its entirety the PL 989/2011, because of…
[Posted on creativecommons.ca, CC-BY] In response to the Government of Canada’s call for comments on the Proposed Open Government Licence Agreement, Creative Commons Canada submitted the feedback posted below. The government plans to apply this licence to many of the hundreds…
[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…
Excerpt from a Fact Sheet from Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. Click here for the full Fact Sheet Eli Lilly and Company has initiated formal proceedings under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to attack Canada’s standards for granting…
[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…