The Colombian Constitutional Court has struck down the law 1520, generally known as “Ley Lleras 2.0”, which implemented part of the U.S FTA obligations in copyright law. This event happened last night, when the Constitutional Court was deciding about the…
El Congreso de Colombia aprobó el año pasado una ley de derechos de autor en Internet, Ley 1520 del año 2012, también conocida como Ley Lleras 2.0, a fin de implementar las obligaciones suscritas con ocasión del Tratado de Libre…
Yesterday the EU Parliament adopted a resolution on a Digital Freedom Strategy in EU Foreign Policy, which focuses on human rights and access to the internet. The resolution and accompanying report was crafted by MEP Marietje Schaake, who guided the…
Today the European Commission held a debate on copyright in the digital economy, and it agreed to move forward with a two tiered workplan to address the issues over the next year and a half. It will hold a formal…
Yesterday, the Canadian Parliament voted down Bill C-398, which would have streamlined the Canadian legal framework allowing generic firms to export medicines produced under compulsory license to developing countries. The existing framework, Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), establishes a…
On Wednesday, November 28, the Canadian Parliament will vote on Bill C-398, legislation to reform the Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR). This is the law that was passed in 2004 to allow generic firms in Canada to export medicines…
Legislation making a number of changes to the Philippines’ Republic Act 8293 (the Intellectual Property Code) has cleared the conference committee. The law makes a number of changes aimed at strengthening IP protection, but it also adds a specific copyright exception…
[Reposted from AccessNow.org] Last June, my government proposed a law that could have imprisoned the average internet user for no fault of their own. The Cybercrime Bill would have overturned our Constitutional right to communications secrecy and given police easy…
[By Carolina Rossini, reposted from EFF’s Deeplinks blog] Internet service providers (ISPs) are the conduits of free expression on the Internet. However, many international and national law and policy proposals, including trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement(TPP) and others,…
Legislation to change the copyright law of the Philippines has passed the third reading in the Senate. The law was sponsored by Senator Manny Villar, who is quoted in the press saying that “It is high time that we genuinely…
With the election around the corner, polls tied, and a slow news week in the US, it’s time to ask the question that’s on everyone’s mind: could Mitt Romney win with some strategic repositioning on copyright policy? Could the answer…
Pakistan is almost set to establish specialized Intellectual Property Tribunals which would exercise exclusive jurisdiction on intellectual property cases (patents, copyright, trademark, designs, Integrated Circuits and selected sections of Pakistan Penal Code dealing with trademark and counterfeiting). It means that…