Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Federal Research Public Access Act attracts two dozen additional co-sponsors Twenty four additional Representatives have cosponsored the Federal Research Public Access Act, (FPRAA, H.R.4004), introduced by Rep. Doyle on February 9. The…
Today, the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs held a debate on ACTA [Webcast]. Tomorrow, the debate will move to the Committee on International Trade [Webcast]. In advance, civil society groups have issued the following statements…
The occasion of Senator’s Wyden’s proposed amendments halting the US ratification of ACTA without express (ex post) congressional approval provides a fine time to analyze the legal justification the administration has offered thus far for entering ACTA without congressional approval.…
The Sunday Times has reported on Siyavula, a project started by Mark Horner that has provided over 2.4 million textbooks to high schools in South Africa. Siyavula volunteers write textbooks for 10th-to-12th grade math and science classes, which are published…
Reposted from University of Lincoln Research Blog Annalisa Jones (CC BY-SA 2.0) Research Councils UK (RCUK) have produced a draft policy paper which sees an amendment to open access policies whereby it will be mandatory for all RCUK-funded papers be made…
Public Citizen has published “Dangers for Access to Medicines in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Intellectual Property Proposal and Australian Law.” Click here for the report.
The opposition to the “access window” medicines chapter is drawing increased press coverage. A recent article by Inside-U.S. Trade reports on the opposition, explaining that other TPP member countries “have refused to accept the U.S. access to medicines proposal or its…
The Maine House of Representatives unanimously resolved to demand that President Obama increase transparency and public participation in the increasingly controversial Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations. The resolution explains its concerns as arising from the shift of trade agreements…
The next round of Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations on intellectual property issues are slated to be negotiated in an “intersessional” meeting April 9-13 in Santiago, Chile, several sources in Chile have confirmed. The Santiago round will be focused on…
ACTA’s biggest EU proponent, Karel De Gucht, the European Commissioner driving ACTA, is now admitting that the agreement may be doomed in Europe. Techdirt reports minutes from a recent Commission meeting in which De Gucht was paraphrased as saying: “that…
Contrasting with apparent progress on some other chapters, which were declared “on track” by negotiators, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement’s intellectual property chapter appears to have stalled in Melbourne. According to some sources, the 10 day negotiation yielded no meaningful progress…
Finland’s EU ministerial committee has postponed ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement until the European Court of Justice completes its review of it. The Helsingin Sanomat reported that the government won’t approve the trade agreement “until the European Union itself…