Public Citizen Testifies Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Explains How to Reduce Cost of Therapies [Public Citizen Press Release, Link] The federal government should act to dramatically lower the cost of new and prohibitively pricey medications to…
Eleonora Rabinovich, Digital Rights LAC, Link (CC-BY-SA) The Argentine Supreme Court has finally published its ruling on intermediary liability. The Court, grounded on strong principles, solved an issue which had generated contradictory and-in many cases-problematic jurisprudence within the country. However,…
Letter sent by Kalyani Menon-Sen, Leena Menghaney, and KM Gopakumar on behalf of the Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab We write to you on behalf of the Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab, a network of treatment activists, patients and public interest lawyers…
[Official Indian govt. release] Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has constituted an IPR Think Tank to draft the National Intellectual Property Rights Policy and to advise the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion on IPR issues. … Interested persons…
I recently served on an expert panel convened by the Royal Society of Canada to do a report on the future of libraries and archives in the country. That report has now been published – The Future Now: Canada’s Libraries,…
[Cross posted from TWN, Link] Several civil society organisations and individuals have expressed earnest concerns over the India-United States Joint Working Group on Intellectual Property. A collective sign-on letter from more than 50 organisations, networks and individuals to India’s Prime…
Reposted from Association of Research Libraries’ Policy Notes blog, Link, CC-BY On Friday, October 17, 2014, the Eleventh Circuit released its long-awaited decision in the Georgia State University (GSU) e-reserves case.Some key takeaways from the majority opinion include: Affirms that…
[Cross posted from Fundación Karisma, Link, (CC-BY)] In Bolivia, La Paz’s City Council is discussing the “Municipal Autonomy Bill No. 100,” which seeks to create mechanisms to ensure the protection of the public performance right of musical works via strengthening…
Brand name pharmaceutical companies are advocating for inclusion of disciplines on public pharmaceutical reimbursement programs in the ongoing negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade agreements. This post answers some frequently asked questions…
Excerpt from Competition Policy Review, Draft Report, September 2014, published under a CC-BY license. The review is being conducted by a panel chaired by Professor Ian Harper. It is accepting comments until November 17, and will issue a final report…
[Repost of a Workshop Report by the South African Screen Federation, (SASFED) Link] Friends of the SASFED were invited to a workshop on Copyright Users Rights and the Clearance Culture in South African Filmmaking on August 18, at 10h00, at…
[Reposted from Aro-IP, Link (CC-BY)] Moneyweb is suing Fin24 for copyright infringement arising out of Fin24’s (re-)publication of eight articles which had been initially published by Moneyweb (see a Mail and Guardian report here). Moneyweb has created a dedicated website…