Last week, USTR announced that it was closing a “partially open” meeting of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Small and Minority Business. No reason was given for the closing of the meeting. But this led an office in Congress to…
Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the Global Fund has written an email responding to a letter from 220 civil society organizations demanding that the Global Fund abandon its “tiered-pricing” proposal. His response: “Thank you for your letter. Dialogue is healthy…
30 international intellectual property law professors from around the world filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court today in ABC v. Aereo. Aereo is being accused of being directly liable for copyright infringement by supplying equipment for a remote…
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) recently announced that it would not seek sanctions against Ukraine following its designation as a Priority Foreign Country in the Special 301 process last year. The notice states that the USTR sticks by its…
The USTR recently issued two notices seeking membership applications for its Trade Advisory Committee System. One notice seeks “Industry” advisors and another seeks those for a new “Public Interest” committee. Each notice announces that the Committees will be established “[p]ursuant…
[Reposted from Karisma.org.co, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] Como cada año la USTR (Oficina de Comercio del Gobierno de EE.UU) elabora su Informe Especial 301 que es simplemente una lista negra de los países piratas que ha sido ampliamente criticada como ilegítima pues es unilateral (desconoce los…
United States Trade Representative Froman announced yesterday that his agency will create a public interest trade advisory committee (PITAC) for academics and NGOs as part of the trade advisory committee structure. But instead of including public interest representatives within Industry…
[Centrum Cyfrowe, Link (CC-BY)] Below we are publishing a joint, bi-monthly overview of the key developments in copyright reform in Poland-December and January 2014. The project is conducted with the support of Open Society Foundations. Most of the links lead to content in…
A team of four student attorneys at the Glushko-Samuelson IP Clinic has posted a nice analysis of why one of the primary pieces of evidence Dan Snyder has invoked in support of keeping his NFL team’s name is basically worthless.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released the second edition of its Global Intellectual Property Index, a report which grades countries on the strength of their IP protection. This year’s index covers 25 countries, including all of the…
Reposted from CC-USA for Copyright Week. Whatever one thinks about the rest of the Google Book business, I think it’s important to focus on the digitization of public domain books by both Google and the Open Content Alliance and to…
[Universidad de Plermo Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión y Acceso a la Información, Link] This new document, produced by CELE’s Freedom of Expression on the Internet Initiative (iLEI), takes on a theoretic discussion that has yet to be…