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Open Innovation: A QUT Research Symposium

Open Innovation: A QUT Research Symposium, Presented by QUT Faculty of Law Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program. Thursday, 24 October 2019 ... This research symposium is dedicated to the topic of open innovation. This event will provide a focal point for Open Access Week in Brisbane, Queensland for 2019. The theme for Open Access Week is ‘Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge’.

PIJIP Events in Brazil to Focus on Copyright and Rights to Education and Research

PIJIP, in its role as chair of the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights, will sponsor two events in Brazil to discuss how copyright can promote rights to access educational and research materials. The meetings are being planned at a time when these issues are being discussed in an agenda item of the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. Brazil has also announced a copyright reform process. Details on the meetings, each of which is open to the public, are detailed below.

Harvard Professor Ruth Okediji Calls for New Public Interest Copyright System

Professor Ruth Okediji Delivered the 8th Annual Peter A. Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property. Her lecture addressed The Unfinished Business of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions. Professor Okediji called for a new paradigm of thinking about the relationship between copyright and the public interest. “The excesses of the copyright system cannot be remedied by limitations and exceptions alone,” she exclaimed.

International IP Experts Debate Protecting Artificial Intelligence Research

A panel of leading international law experts addressed how international and domestic copyright law can adapt to the needs of researchers, libraries, technology entrepreneurs and their users at the American Branch of the International Law Association at Fordham Law School, New York, on Saturday October 12. The panel addressed International Intellectual Property Law in the Age of Smart Technology and Intelligent Machines. The focus of the discussion was on how the proliferation of new transformative technologies, such as smart devices, Big Data and artificial intelligence, pose new challenges for the effective development of international intellectual property law.

Book Review -The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America by Margaret O’Mara

One of the stories in Margaret O’Mara’s excellent history of the technology industry in the United States focuses on the role of women as the first computer programmers in the post-World War II technology boom. Back then, she explains, there were want ads for men and for women. Computer programmers – called coders to reinforce a perceived nature of the job as clerical – was a woman’s job. This was occurring while some of her main characters – like Ann Hardy who went on to work for IBM and later started her own tech firm – were denied admission to the top engineering schools.

Moving Towards a New Copyright Bargain: Lecture by Rebecca Giblin

Copyright laws are beset from every angle. They're criticized for failing to recognize and reward creators, for blocking new forms of creativity, for limiting access to knowledge and for causing culture to be lost. Copyright's fundamental structures were settled before the digital era, but are cemented in by outdated and effectively unamendable treaties. In this public lecture, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow Rebecca Giblin illuminates a path forward to a new copyright bargain: one that, by taking authors' interests seriously, would simultaneously reclaim lost culture, promote access to knowledge and help authors get paid - all within those unamendable treaty frameworks.

Decolonising Copyright, Building our Creative & Information Economy

Recreate ZA, in partnership with Wits Library, Wiser, UCT IP Unit and the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property will be hosting a series of panel discussions on the 7th and 8th of August, at Wits and UCT respectivel... At this event, a number of development scholars and experts, including Ruth Okediji, Adam Habib, Justice Zak Yacoob, Tshilidzi Marwala and many others will be engaging on how the signing and implementation Copyright Amendment Bill could positively affect the economy, and how it could lead to growth emanating from South Africa’s creative, research and education sectors, as well as reductions in costs for students and learning institutions.

Exploring TRIPS Flexibilities implementation in Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia

On June 3-5, 2019 government officials, academia, patent attorneys and civil society from Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia as well as from other Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) countries gathered in Kiev, Ukraine to discuss intellectual property and access to medicines. The event was attended by more than 100 people from more than ten countries and became one of the most significant IP and A2M events ever convened in the region.

Concern Grows Over Spread of EU Copyright Filtering Rules

Earlier this year, the EU passed a sweeping new copyright directive that includes new requirements that Internet platforms filter social media uploads for potential copyright violations. Some creator groups – especially in the music sector – have been applauding the law and proposing that it be adopted elsewhere. But a growing number of copyright experts from around the world have begun preaching caution. `

Karisma Foundation to Host 2020 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in Cartagena

The steering committee of the Global Congress and IP and the Public Interest has unanimously approved the application of Karisma Foundation to hold the next Congress in Cartagena, Colombia, in (likely August) 2020. (By longstanding practice, the steering committee is composed of all past hosts of the Congress, as permanent members, and the track leaders of the last Congress, who serve on the committee for one year).