QUT Media, 11 November 2020 11th November 2020 A multi-stranded strategy is needed to reach the lofty goal of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (CREATE), says a chief investigator and co-director of the project’s…
Major publishing houses including HarperCollins and Penguin are suing the non-profit Internet Archive for its National Emergency Library, set up to provide access to books during the COVID-19 shutdown. The Authors Guild has supported the publishers’ copyright action.
While the Trump administration trumpets Operation Warp Speed’s search for COVID-19 vaccine, it is unwilling to collaborate with the world’s scientists who share their COVID-19 findings and have pledged to make a vaccine affordable and accessible for everyone.
[Public Citizen] Open science, ramped-up manufacturing, fair pricing and sharing of technology, among other actions, are urgently needed to reduce loss of life during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 254 groups including Public Citizen said today. The groups released a list of principles calling for action from governments, international agencies, manufacturers, donors and development partners.
[Open COVID Pledge Press Release] Amazon, Facebook, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), IBM, Microsoft, and Sandia National Laboratories announced today that they are joining the Open COVID Pledge by making all of their patents freely available to the public for use in the fight against COVID-19. Together, the group holds hundreds of thousands of patents and is offering to grant a temporary license that enables the public to utilize any of the pledgors’ patents in the research, development, and deployment of medical equipment, network products, software solutions, and other technologies to assist in this urgent public health crisis.
“Climate litigation has been on the rise in the United States, the European Union, and Australia versus both governments, and fossil fuel companies. The results, though, have been mixed,” Professor Rimmer said.
[Sophie Bloemen and David Hammerstein] ... a commons approach in biomedical research & development (R&D) can help pull us out of the current crisis of over-diagnosis, over-prescription, low innovation, secrecy and sky-rocketing costs for both patients and health systems. While not exhaustive in our analysis of the many factors affecting biomedical innovation and public health, we propose entry points in the form of policies with the power to transition society away from the current proprietary, centralised and extractive model. In a second step, we put forward a vision for future initiatives in line with commons principles, where the EU should be investing for long-term benefit.
Release of the “Literature review on the use of licensing in library context, and the limitations this creates to access to knowledge” [International Federation of Library Associations, Link (CC-BY] The way libraries acquire content is in transition. With a growing…
[Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge press release, Link (CC-BY)] In a move that could strike down barriers to treatment for the exploding hepatitis C epidemic that kills 700,000 people every year, attorneys and scientists from the Initiative for Medicines,…
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,…
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…
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…