[Reposted from Afro-IP, Link (CC-BY)] A number of commentaries have been published on the Draft IP Policy’s suggested patent reforms (see below for links to some of these). In general, the draft policy has been lauded as a welcome step…
Author: Rebecca Giblin, Monash University Abstract: It has been more than three years since the first countries began implementing ‘graduated responses’, requiring ISPs to take a range of measures to police their users’ copyright infringements. Graduated responses now exist in…
[Maureen Nwobodo, Assoc. for Progressive Communications (CC-BY-NC-SA)] Many countries have made moves to make internet intermediaries (such as cybercafés, internet service providers and telecom operators) liable for the sort of content posted at their web-space/network by its users, thereby indirectly using…
Vietnam’s controversial new “Decree 72 on the Management, Provision and Use of Internet Services and Online Information” went into effect on September 1. The full text in Vietnamese is here.* As reported in VOA by Marianne Brown,”Critics say the new…
Almost six years after Brazil started publicly discussing its Copyright Bill, the first concrete changes start turning into law. On August 15, the sanctioned Amendment got published under number 12.853 and is available, in Portuguese, at It focuses on…
[Joint Press Release] The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today delivered a memorandum to the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) at the National Workshop on Intellectual Property and Public Health in Pretoria, outlining needed reforms…
[Excerpt from article by Amy Kapczynski in the New England Journal of Medicine] India is known as the “pharmacy of the developing world,” because it supplies much of the world’s demand for affordable, generic drugs. So when the Supreme Court…
Earlier this month, Brook Baker posted a Civil Society Statement in support of an upcoming Brazilian legislative proposal that would make greater use of TRIPS flexibilities to promote access to medicines. The legislation will be introduced in August and it…
[Burcu Kilic and Luigi Palombi] Over the past few years, patent-eligible subject matter has become one of the hotly debated areas of patent law in several countries. Even in the U.S., the Supreme Court is beginning to express concerns about…
The Fair Use Doctrine in the United States — A Response to the Kernochan Report, by Gwen Hinze, Peter Jaszi & Matthew Sag, July 26, 2013. [Reposted from matthewsag.com] Our submission provides a brief overview of the U.S. experience of the…
[by Ernesto, Link (CC-BY)] Finland is the first country in the world in which Parliament will vote on a “fairer” copyright law that has been crowdsourced by the public. The proposal, which obtained the required 50,000 Finnish votes just a…
67 legal academics have endorsed a letter to Colombian leaders to express concern over copyright legislation intended to implement the country’s obligations under their trade agreement with the U.S. The letter warns that the provisions in the legislation “restrict the…