Continuing our march through the demographics of Copy Culture in the US and Germany, let’s look at gender. Would you bet that file sharing is mostly the province of young men? If you did, you would lose. Using our broadest…
The Bangkok Post reports that Thailand has agreed to enter the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations, a development that will be formally announced on Sunday during a U.S. Presidential visit by Obama on Sunday. Thailand has existing FTAs with Australia…
The Supreme Court of Canada has invalidated Pfizer’s patent for Viagra, on the grounds that the company’s patent filing did not meet the Patent Act’s disclosure requirements. Teva, the generic firm that challenged the patent, will be able to market…
Joint press release by ACT-UP Paris, April, and La Quadrature du Net. In 2011 and 2012, European citizens took to the streets to protest against secret negociations of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that threatened their fundamental freedoms. This led…
[Written by Jenny Cascante Gonzalez · Translated by Jane Ellis – posted on Global Voices CC-BY-3.0] Thousands of students participated in a march in San José on Tuesday, October 9, 2012, protesting for their right to photocopy textbooks for educational…
[Repost from the WCL IP Brief. Original post here. CC-BY] After the U.S. approved the FTA with Colombia, this South American nation sought to comply with the terms of the agreement by passing a new bill last April 10, 2012.…
By Sean Flynn, with translation assistance of Lina Diaz and Sofia Castillo, American University Washington College of Law Yesterday, in a situation a similar to Colombia’s rushed passage of “Ley Lleras 2,” the Panamanian Congress sprinted to finalization of an incredibly…
[Reposted from the author’s blog technollama] In a Rogue’s Gallery of copyright legislation, many efforts deserve mention. The DMCA is surely there, together with Japan’s new copyright law, the Digital Economy Act, and Ley Sinde. But a new Panamanian copyright…
On Sunday, TPP negotiators concluded their 14th round of negotiations. The IPR talks revolved around cooperation on IPRs, trademarks, and geographical indications. Progress in the IPR negotiations were said to be progressing very slowly, and negotiators were scheduled to address…
“Digital rights and civil freedoms on the web, 12 basic lessons online” is the first online seminar, to be launched from September 2012 until February 2013. This webinar will give you the information, criteria and basic tools to understand key…
The Japanese Diet legislature voted on Thursday to ratify the Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The Inquirer reports that the agreement was rushed through the House in the middle of the night, in a matter of minutes. According to Tech Dirt, the…
Post by PIJIP Professor Jorge Contreras, originally written as a guest post for Public Knowledge. [Source] Despite its own protestations to the contrary, I am confident that the rumors of Samsung’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Of course, the Korean…