Category Domestic Policy

Multiple News Agencies Confirm: Press Publishers Right Will Be Used to Limit Freedom to Link

[Communia Association, (CC-0)] Within the new industry, news agencies fill the role of the objective gathers of facts. Agencies like DPA, AFP or ANP collect information and make them available to publishing companies who sometimes publish the information as is, but mostly use the information that they get from the agencies as an ingredient for their own reporting. Journalists rely on news agencies to confirm the accuracy of information they use in their reporting.

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December 18, 2017

IP Unit Submits Its Comments Concerning the DTI’s Draft IP Policy, Phase One

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.90″ background_layout=”light” max_width=”90%”] [University of Cape Town IP Unit, Link] On 17 November 2017, the IP Unit submitted to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) its full set of comments on the Draft Intellectual Property Policy of the Republic…

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November 28, 2017

Estonian Presidency Makes One More Step Towards Licensing Educational Content

[Reposted from Communia Association, Link, (CC-0)] Do you remember the idea of educational fair use? The idea that education can benefit from a broad, flexible exception for a wide range of uses of copyrighted content while teaching and learning? The question is worth…

Alek Tarkowski
November 16, 2017

Patients and Parliamentarians ask Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to Support a Petition for Compulsory Licenses for Patents Related to Hepatitis C and Cancer Drugs

Representatives of Corporacion Innovarte, Patient Foundation Nuevo Renacer, Pharmaceutical Chemists Guild, and cancer and hepatitis patients attended the Presidential Palace “La Moneda” on November 10th to deliver a letter to the Chilean President of the Republic, Michelle Bachelet, asking her to instruct…

Luis Villarroel
November 13, 2017

How Does Malawi’s New Copyright Law Measure Up?

[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] An EIFL review of Malawi’s Copyright Act of 2016 has found that although the new law permits a range of library activities such as making copies for research and use of works in virtual…

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November 3, 2017

Copyright Directive: Push for automated filters from France, Portugal and Spain

France, Portugal and Spain have waded into the debate on the notorious Article 13 of the EU’s proposed Copyright Directive with a proposal that would oblige online content-sharing platforms to introduce mandatory automated filtering of uploads, as originally proposed by…

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November 3, 2017

Se reglamentó la excepción al derecho de autor en beneficio de personas ciegas o con dificultades para el acceso al texto impreso

[Creative Commons Urugualy, Link (CC-BY)] El 16 de octubre el Poder Ejecutivo firmó el decreto que reglamenta la excepción al derecho de autor aprobada por el Parlamento en octubre de 2013 en beneficio de personas ciegas o con dificultades para el acceso…

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October 31, 2017

As We Celebrate Nigeria’s Ratification of the WCT, WPPT, The Beijing Treaty and Marrakesh Treaty…

[Desmond Oriakhogba, reposted from University of Cape Town IP Unit, Link] On 4 October 2017, Nigeria deposited during the 57th meeting of the WIPO general assembly in Geneva four ratification instruments concerning the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) of 1996, the…

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October 26, 2017

Opinion of the CEIPI on the European Commission’s Proposal to Reform Copyright Limitations and Exceptions in the European Union

Christophe Geiger, Giancarlo Frosio, Oleksandr Bulayenko The European Commission’s planned copyright reform proposes to adapt EU law to the challenges emerging in the Digital Single Market (DSM).[1] In particular, new mandatory exceptions and limitations should contribute to improving the creative…

Christophe Geiger
October 18, 2017

La Ley Lleras Continúa

Primeras impresiones de la reforma al derecho de autor que presentará el gobierno en 2017 para implementar el TLC con EEUU. [Fundación Karisma, Link (CC-BY-SA)] El lunes 2 de octubre, la Dirección Nacional de Derecho de Autor citó a Karisma…

Carolina Botero
October 13, 2017

The European Parliament Should Be Talking About DRM, Right Now!

[Teresa Nobre, Communia Association, Link (CC-0)] The European Union is currently discussing a reform of its copyright system, including making mandatory certain copyright exceptions, in order to introduce a balance into the system. However, no one, except Julia Reda, is…

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October 11, 2017

When the Chinese Intellectual Property System Hits 35

Author: Peter Yu Abstract: In 1982, China promulgated its first modern intellectual property law, offering protection to trademarks. Since then, China adopted the Patent Law in 1984, the Copyright Law in 1990 and the Anti-Unfair Competition Law in 1993. In…

Papers
September 29, 2017