The Chairs of the User Rights Track of the 2015 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest adopted the following final plenary statement: Through the past four Global Congresses we have re-energized a movement, created and shared evidence, and…
Statement of Sean Flynn, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: Thirty-First Session December 7-11, 2015 (Geneva, Switzerland) Thank you for recognizing me on the issue of promoting limitations and exceptions for educational…
Today’s release of the TPP agreement confirms that its Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) chapter would expand the rights of private companies to challenge limitations and exceptions to copyrights, patents, and other intellectual property rights in unaccountable international arbitration forums. The…
As U.S. organizations and academics interested in issues related to good governance and transparency, we write to urge you to match the level of openness embarked upon by your counterpart from the European Union and make publicly available U.S. proposals…
The negotiating parties to the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) announced today that they have reached an agreement on a broad international regulatory harmonization agreement that will bind the U.S. to a new set of international minimum standards on intellectual…
USTR has reportedly tabled a new provision for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) that would carve out tobacco regulation from the effect of its investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) chapter, which allows private companies to challenge domestic regulations in secretive and…
Letter from South African and American Academics to Ms Meshendri Padayachi South Africa Department of Trade and Industry – Joint Academic Comment (PDF) – Accompanying Table (PDF) We write in response to your request for public comments on South Africa’s…
A workshop of academics and stakeholders on Internet Rights, Cultural Development and Balancing Features in South African Copyright Reform commended South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for its public release of a Copyright Amendment Bill that would expand…
For immediate release Sean Flynn is the Associate Director of the American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property 202-294-5749 A new leak of text from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement contains new language — not…
Sean Flynn, American University Washington College of Law, 202-294-5749, sflynn@wcl.american.edu David Levine, Elon University School of Law, 336-279-9298, dlevine3@elon.edu Senators Blumenthal, Brown, Baldwin, and Udall introduced today a trade negotiation transparency bill that would require that all formal U.S. proposals…
The Senate and House Reports on the Trade Promotion Authority bills working through Congress include important, albeit limited, steps toward endorsing balanced intellectual property norms in trade policy. The Senate report, released today, states:
FCC Chairman Wheeler announced the members of the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee today, including Victoria Phillips, founding member of the American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. The Committee includes a diverse range of…