QUT Media4th November 2025 The United Kingdom Parliament is considering a bill aimed at making smoking obsolete, which has been endorsed in a report by long-time tobacco endgame campaigner, QUT Professor Matthew Rimmer. Sixth months after its second reading in…
Speaking at the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights Symposium on 16 June 2025, Professor Christophe Geiger argues for a simple solution to the AI training debate. Instead of the EU’s current opt-out system, which he says often fails…
On 25 September 2025, Professor Wend Wendland, delivered the 14th Peter Jaszi Distinguished Lecture at American University in Washington D.C.. The event was hosted by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. For over 25 years at WIPO, Prof.…
On September 18, 2025, the Italian Senate definitively approved the country’s first comprehensive framework law on artificial intelligence (AI). The new law also reflects Italy’s commitment to aligning its domestic legal system with the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU)…
Por Andrés Izquierdo Durante la segunda semana de agosto, fui invitado a hablar en la Feria Internacional del Libro de Panamá, un evento organizado por la la Oficina del Derecho de Autor de Panamá, el Ministerio de Cultura y la…
By Andrés Izquierdo AI, Copyright, and the Future of Creativity: Notes from the Panama International Book FairDuring the second week of August, I was invited to speak at the Panama International Book Fair, an event hosted by the World Intellectual…
This post was originally published on CircleID by Kathy Kleiman To the ICANN Community, Today, I share a warning about serious changes to the Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) of the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook. They are not driven by public comment, but by…
A unique, expert-led workshop on ethical data scraping was organized by Professor Niva Elkin-Koren and Dr. Maayan Perel and hosted by the Shamgar Center of Digital Law and Innovation, Tel Aviv University. The workshop was made possible by the generous…
Jonathan Band The full text of the Intellectual Property Chapter of the United Kingdom-India Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, signed on July 24, 2025, is now available for review. Overall, it is much more favorable to balanced copyright protection…
Sean Flynn, Luca Schirru, Talia Deady In a previous blog post, we analyzed the statements of regional groups and delegations during the 2025 WIPO General Assembly review of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR). Here we share…
Sean Flynn, Luca Schirru, Talia Deady The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held its General Assembly (GA) this week, including a review of the progress and recommendations of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR). The GA affirmed…
In July 2025, Tanuja Garde assumed the role of Director of the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division at the World Trade Organization (WTO). She holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Duke University and a Juris Doctor from…