Contacts: Sean Flynn, American University Washington College of Law, 202-274-4157, sflynn@wcl.american.edu Margot Kaminski, Yale Law School, margot.kaminski@yale.edu David Levine, Elon University School of Law, 336-279-9298, dlevine3@elon.edu The release of a Trade Promotion Authority bill yesterday, including provisions to increase Congressional…
Forthcoming in: Ch. Geiger (ed), “Research Handbook on Human Rights and Intellectual Property”, Cheltenham, UK / Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar (2014) Abstract: The relationship between the protection of intellectual property (IP) and human rights has been examined in a growing…
Two events this week will examine issues in international intellectual property. September 11, The Promise and the Peril of Intellectual Property Licensing for Indigenous Assets. September 12, The Marrekesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually…
[Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, Link, Palermo University] The responsibility that intermediaries must have regarding the behaviour of their users on the Internet has increasingly been discussed in Latin America. For States and certain…
I write to share news about a set of articles that critically evaluate the recent Supreme Court of India’s decision on the patentability of Glivec – the Novartis anti-cancer drug. The ruling that finds Glivec foul of the standards under…
In the digital rights and access to knowledge movements, we spend a lot of our time fighting against bad proposals, that limit the public domain, restrict user rights such as fair use or fair dealing, and control the way we…
[by Philippe Aigrain (CC-BY-SA)(Link)] An endless stream of law proposals, soft-law initiatives and free-trade agreements keeps trying to eradicate or prevent the non-market sharing of digital works between individuals. New strategies are pushed using incentives and threats so that intermediaries will…
This Friday I attended a workshop at Yale Law School Global Health Justice Partnership to discuss the end product of a clinical project exploring human rights strategies to promote access to medicine. (This is a long term interest of mine.…