Carol Nogueira and Julianna Granjeia report in Folha.com that a Brazilian court has ruled DJs do not need to pay royalties for samples of songs used in public performances at clubs. Judge Cláudia Longobardi Campana found that the use of…
By Margot Kaminski, originally posted on Intellectual Property Watch. The role of online intermediaries in copyright enforcement is on the international negotiating table. The topic arose in early drafts of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and has come up again…
The TPP chief negotiators took questions from stakeholders this morning in Lima, Peru. There were some elements of news scattered among numerous refusals to discuss, verify or explain any proposals or positions in the negotiations. One irony in the secrecy…
In advance of the upcoming meeting of the World Health Organization Working Group on Substandard/Spurious/Falsified/Falsely-Labeled/Counterfeit (SSFFC) Medical Products, 55 civil society groups have written its Chairperson to highlight concerns with the improper use of the term “counterfeit.” Excerpt from the…
Enclosed are the presentation materials of Sharon Treat, State Legislator from Maine, on the US proposal for a TPP chapter restricting pharmaceutical reimbursement programs. Sharon testified that, if applied to the US (unlike similar chapters with Korea and Australia), the…
This briefing paper provides preliminary analysis of the leaked U.S. proposal for an intellectual property chapter in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. What is clear from this analysis is that the U.S. proposal, if adopted, would create the most…
For immediate release. By Sean Flynn, sflynn@wcl.american.edu Lima, Peru. Among the US Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) proposals leaked today was a proposed chapter on “Transparency and Procedural Fairness for Healthcare Technologies,” more widely known as the Pharmaceutical Pricing Chapter. All…
Representatives Levin, Waxman, McDermott and Conyers have written U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk to “underscore the importance of upholding the U.S. commitment to advancing an agreement that safeguards access to medicines in the developing world.” Specifically, the letter asks USTR…
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) has written the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, asking it to form an official opinion on ACTA. The letter references the EU Academics letter arguing that ACTA…
Statement and FAQ on ACTA and the Constitution Sean M Fiil Flynn Associate Director Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) American University Washington College of Law (202) 274-4157; Cell 202-294-5749 October 12, 2011 Today, Senator Wyden released a…
In the fact sheet from USTR on ACTA, which appears to be the document that was being floated to cleared advisors as the “signing statement,” USTR points to four agreements (in addition to GATT) that justify its entry into ACTA…
Next week, PIJIP Fellows Bijan Madhani and Michael Vasquez and I will be releasing our study for the EU parliament on the impact of ACTA on access to medicines in developing countries. A draft of the paper was released last…