MPP, AbbVie and South African Department of Health work together to establish long-term solutions for antiretroviral therapies (ARVs) [MPP Press Release, Link (CC-BY)] The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) today announced a new licensing agreement with AbbVie, a global biopharmaceutical company,…
[Ryan Merkley, Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] I’m proud to share with you Creative Commons’ 2015 State of the Commons report, our best effort to measure the immeasurable scope of the commons by looking at the CC licensed content, along with…
The royalty-free agreement allows manufacturers to develop daclatasvir for 112 low- and middle-income countries [MPP Press Release, Link (CC-BY-NC-ND] The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) today announced its first licence for a hepatitis C medicine, signing an agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb…
[Originally posted on the Communia Blog, Link] The Creative Commons Summit, a bi-annual meeting of members of the CC network and friends of the Commons, took place in mid-October in Seoul, South Korea. One of the event’s tracks was devoted…
Universities Allied for Access to Medicine Sign-On Letter signed by 750+ Academics Click here to sign As members of the international academic and scientific community, we call upon the member states of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to negotiate a…
MPP’s voluntary licensing work could benefit millions of patients in low- and middle-income countries [MPP Press Release, September 6, 2015] The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), the world’s only voluntary licensing mechanism in public health, announced an expansion of its mandate…
SPARC press release, Link (CC-BY) Contact: Ranit Schmelzer 202-5380-1065 | sparcmedia@arl.org Washington, DC –The Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) today passed S. 779, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act, unanimously by voice vote and…
[Patralekha Chatterjee for IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), part of US President Barack Obama’s promised pivot to Asia, has stirred up a hornet’s nest on the ethics of trying to hammer out a trade deal in secrecy.…
FCC Chairman Wheeler announced the members of the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee today, including Victoria Phillips, founding member of the American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. The Committee includes a diverse range of…
I released a statement earlier today opining that the today’s leak of the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) chapter proposed for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement (available at ) would give new rights to private companies to challenge limitations…
I released a statement earlier today opining that the today’s leak of the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) chapter proposed for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement (available at ) would give new rights to private companies to challenge limitations…
Today’s leak of the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) chapter proposed for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement would give new rights to private companies to challenge limitations and exceptions to copyrights, patents, and other intellectual property rights in unaccountable…