Joint statement by Fundación Grupo Efecto Positivo and the ABIA Grupo de Trabalho sobre Propriedade Intelectual Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, September 15th, 2016 – The United Nation’s High Level Panel (UN HLP) on Access to Medicines released yesterday its…
Public Knowledge Press Release, Link (CC-BY-SA) Today we’re releasing our newest report, “Captured: Systemic Bias at the U.S. Copyright Office.” This report examines the role of industry capture and the revolving door between the major entertainment industries and the Copyright…
International Federation of Library Associations, Link (CC-BY) The signing of the Treaty of Marrakesh in 2013 was a first step towards providing access to knowledge for some of the most vulnerable in society. It offers a response to the book…
American Ethnologist, Volume 43, Issue 3, August 2016. Descrição em Português | Full Text (English) Around the world, antipiracy NGOs train police to recognize the unauthorized use of music and films and to publicly destroy illicit CDs and DVDs. For…
Authors: Neil Butcher, Sarah Hoosen, Lisbeth Levey, and Derek Moore Summary: Developing early literacy requires access to structured decodable texts and levelled readers, an array of supplementary reading materials (SRMs), and teachers trained in literacy development methods and teaching in…
Electronic Information for Libraries (CC-BY) 05 August 2016 | Contacts: jean.fairbairn@eifl.net: Communications Manager teresa.hackett@eifl.net: Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager Restrictive copyright laws create legal barriers to using resources for education, research and socio-economic development. This can have significant consequences for…
[South Africa Department of Trade and Industry, Link] The National Development Plan (NDP) calls for greater emphasis on innovation, improved productivity, more intensive pursuit of a knowledge economy and better exploitation of comparative and competitive advantages. Intellectual property (IP) is…
Dimitar Dimitrov, Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU, Link, (CC-BY) Thanks to synchronised interplay between our EU-level policy initiative and the steady work of our Belgian community, a new copyright exception allowing for thousands of new images on Wikimedia projects is…
Presented by the Colombian civil society organizations: CIMUN, Ifarma, Foundation, and Misión Salud (Link) [Bogotá, Colombia 30th June, 2016 ] .. It is important for us to offer for your consideration, and for the consideration of the UN Secretary-General and UN Member…
Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment Government of New Zealand Submissions are due by 5pm on Monday, 8 August 2016 Consultation document (PDF) On 11 July 2016, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment released a consultation document seeking feedback on…
[Teresa Hackett, EIFL, Link (CC-BY)] Document delivery is a vital service in meeting the particular information needs of individual researchers, students and scholars. On 1 July 2016 the British Library (BL), one of the world’s largest research libraries, terminated its…
[Isabella Alexander, Catherine Bond, Kathy Bowrey, Robert Burrell, Michael Handler, Graham Greenleaf, Dianne Nicol, Jane L Nielsen, and Kimberlee G. Weatherall ] This Submission by nine intellectual property academics responds to the Draft Report in the Inquiry into IP Arrangements…