[World Bank Paper by Hanif Rahemtulla, Samantha Custer, Irina Tisacova, Kaushal Jhalla, Soren Gigler, and Charles Brigham.] ABSTRACT: … In April 2011, Moldova became one of the first countries in the region, and among the first 16 countries in the…
In this webcast, recorded August 27, American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property faculty Jorge Contreras, Jonas Anderson and Christine Farley discuss the Apple-Samsung verdict and litigation. CLICK HERE FOR WEBCAST Jorge Contreras, who researches…
This blog post was co-written by Peter Maybarduk, Public Citizen’s Global Access to Medicines Program Director. It was originally published on the Public Knowledge site. This past Friday (August 17), Douglas E. Schoen published an op-ed in Politico lobbying for…
[Blog by Diane Peters, originally posted at creativecommons.org] We are pleased to post draft 2 of 4.0 for public discussion. This comes after several months of substantive conversations on a number of policy issues, with input solicited from our global…
Senator Wyden has again written the Obama Administration insisting that ACTA cannot be implemented in the United States absent Congressional ratification. In a letter to State Department Attorney Harold Koh, he disagrees with Koh’s previous assertion that the Pro IP…
Rollbacks of Modest Bush-Era Improvements on Access to Medicines Would Empower Big Pharma, Expand Monopolies WASHINGTON, D.C. – To achieve the “AIDS-free generation” for which President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, among others, have called, we must…
[Reposted from treatpeopleright.org] “Treating people right” means many things, but one of the things it means is that people living with and at risk of HIV/AIDS must have immediate and affordable access to new medicines, diagnostics, and other medical technologies…
In Germany, nightclubs will face higher royalty payments when a new policy by the collecting society Gesellschaft für Musikalische Aufführung (GEMA) takes effect on January 1. The new fees will be based on the size of the venue and the…
In a recent presentation before the Personal Democracy Forum, Yochai Benkler, the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, discussed the media surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)…
The European Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement today, 478-39. The rejection issued a massive blow to the prospects of the agreement itself, as well as to the larger international intellectual property agenda of the United States, now playing…
According to Inside US Trade, Intellectual Property negotiators at the San Diego round of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Negotiations are discussing the “less controversial areas, including copyrights and general IPR provisions.” In fact, the general provisions and copyright…
The Australian Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Treaties issued a report today recommending that “the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement not be ratified by Australia” unless and until the government can provide an adequate evidentiary record proving that the agreement will be…