Timothy Vollmer, Communia Association, Link (CC-0) Later this week in Toronto we’ll be joining hundreds of Creative Commons community members, supporters, and activists at the CC Global Summit. The summit program will feature keynotes and a variety of sessions organized around…
Last month, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, the Australian Digital Alliance and Internet NZ hosted a series of meetings and workshops on user rights in copyright reform in Australia and New Zealand. Both countries are debating copyright…
On March 29, PIJIP will team up with the American University International Law Review and a number of other organizations to host a one-day conference: Globalizing Fair Use: Exploring the Diffusion of General, Open and Flexible Exceptions in Copyright Law.…
The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, the Australian Digital Alliance and Internet NZ are hosting a series of meetings and workshops on user rights in copyright reform in Australia and New Zealand February 13-24. Participants in the events…
[Kerry Sheehan, EFF, Link (CC-BY)] We’re taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of the law, and…
Experts discuss “Copyright Enforcement in the Online World” at a high level event at the Council of Europe, with the participation of Andrus Ansip, Vice President of the European Commission & EU Commissioner for the Digital Single Market On Tuesday,…
Originally posted Nov 29, updated Dec 5, 2016 A Copyright Amendment Bill will be tabled in Parliament by the South African government proposing to reform the current system of copyright law in the country to include a “fair use” clause…
EIFL campaign to mark UNESCO World Book & Copyright Day and WIPO World Intellectual Property Day 2016 [Teresa Hackett, Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] In the digital environment, librarians deal with questions of copyright every day. But restrictive copyright…
The Center for International Intellectual Property Studies is hosting, in partnership with the members of the EIPIN network and the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts (Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland USA), the 17th EIPIN…
IP and Development Track Organizers, Reposted from global-congress.org WRAP-UP NOTE 1: FEEDBACK ON BROAD DISCUSSION IN THE IP AND DEV TRACK – SET OF COLLECTED KEY POINTS This year, the discussions included attention to broad perspectives on clarifying the meaning and…
The Fourth Global Congress will open tomorrow at the National Law University in Delhi, India. The website with the program and other details is here. In advance of the meeting, the organizers have posted a series of discussions with some…
[Reposted from TechDirt, Link] Last Thursday, Judge Pierre N. Leval, a renowned fair use scholar and judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, delivered the Fourth Annual Peter A. Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property (you…