Leaders in the Obama Administration, in state governments, and in corporate America have acknowledged the urgency of increasing access to higher education in the United States – particularly through community colleges. These leaders also recognize the importance of improving completion…
Excerpt from pages 41-42 of President Obama’s budget for 2015. The full document is available here. By opening up Government-generated assets including data and the fruits of federally funded research and development (R&D) — such as intellectual property and scientific…
[South Centre News Service, Link] The South Centre calls on WTO Members to Respect the Legitimacy of the Use of TRIPS Flexibilities for Public Health in light of new threats of unilateral trade measures by the United States against India…
Joe McNamee European Digital Rights Our latest booklet is now online! The document looks at the extent to which “voluntary” law enforcement measures by online companies are serving to undermine long-established fundamental rights principles and much of the democratic…
[Paul Keller, Communia, Link] With the EU consultation on a review of the European Copyright rules still ongoing (the new extended deadline is the 5th of March) it is nice to see that some other countries are apparently making progress with their…
[Centrum Cyfrowe, Link (CC-BY)] Below we are publishing a joint, bi-monthly overview of the key developments in copyright reform in Poland-December and January 2014. The project is conducted with the support of Open Society Foundations. Most of the links lead to content in…
[Official Release, Link] The ALRC was asked to consider whether the current exceptions and statutory licences in the Copyright Act are adequate and appropriate in the digital era. The Report, tabled on 13 February 2014, is the result of an…
Last Friday, an interagency committee led by the U.S. Trade Representative received comments for the 2014 Special 301 Review. This annual review is a process in which it identifies countries that allegedly “deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual property…
The Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab deplores the ex-parte order of the Delhi High Court on a petition by Swiss pharma major Roche, effectively preventing Biocon from marketing of a biosimilar of the breast cancer drug trastuzumab. [The order is available here:…
Srividhya Ragavan (University of Oklahoma College of Law), Brook Baker (Northeastern University School of Law), and Sean Flynn (American University Washington College of Law) submitted the following statement to the International Trade Commission (ITC) Investigation No. 332-543 on Trade, Investment, and Industrial…
[Marcus Low, Treatment Action Campaign, Link (CC-BY-SA)] We are deeply perturbed by revelations in last Friday’s Mail & Guardian exposing what appears to be a very well-funded, covert plot by foreign pharmaceutical companies and their local subsidiaries to delay a…
The House Judiciary Committee IP Subcommittee held a hearing this afternoon on “The Scope of Fair Use.” The witness list and the witnesses’ written testimony are online here. I was live-tweeting it, more or less, and you can see my…