Abstract: In the past decade, policymakers and commentators across the world have called for the introduction of copyright reform based on the U.S. fair use model. Thus far, Israel, Liberia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Taiwan…
William Cross, Director, Copyright and Digital Scholarship Center, NCSU Libraries Association of Research Libraries Issue Brief (CC-BY) Click here for the full Issue Brief (PDF) Government Information at Risk Access to government information is a fundamental principle in a democratic…
[Originally published in South Africa’s Business Day, Link] Over the past two weeks, I have been participating in a series of events and workshops explaining copyright “fair use” rights to South African stakeholders and officials. This week, Parliament has been…
PIJIP has created a table of comments submitted to the South African Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry regarding the Copyright Amendment Bill. It was last updated on July 19, 2017. Please send additional comments to mpalmedo@wcl.american.edu, and I…
Sean Michael Flynn and Michael Palmedo Comments to U.S. Trade Representative, re: NAFTA Negotiation The AU Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property has been working over several years on empirical research pertaining to the impact of balanced copyright systems…
All over the world, copyright regimes have figured out how to write exceptions that don’t hurt the market for creators’ work but permit new work to be made without strangling costs. But Australia has one of the most rigid copyright…
Computer & Communications Industry Association, Fair Use in the U.S. Economy: Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use (CCIA: 2017), available online at ccianet.org. Executive Summary: In 2007, CCIA released a report prepared by Capital Trade, Inc. that was…
South Africa has released the 2017 Copyright Amendment Bill for public comment. The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry will accept written comments from the public through June 19, and will hold public hearings on the legislation June 27-29. Instruction…
Authors: Patricia Aufderheide, Aram Sinnreich, Louisa Imperiale and Carolyn Silvernail Abstract: This study tracks changes in behavior and attitude among visual arts professionals after the development of a code of best practices in the copyright doctrine of fair use. A…
[ReCreate press release, Link (CC-BY)] As the Trump Administration notifies Congress of its intent to negotiate changes to NAFTA, the Re:Create Coalition today issued a statement urging the Office of the United States Trade Representative to include language on copyright…
There is increasing attention in international trade and copyright forums to the question of how international law should protect and promote copyright user rights. I presented the following options at this year’s Creative Commons Global Summit as examples of provisions…
Author: Antoni Terra Abstract: Digital piracy is a worldwide concern. Both very high and very low rates of intellectual property infringement threaten innovation, thus implying that some level of effective copyright regulation is required to incentivize the creation of original…