Sean Flynn, a lecturer at American University Washington College of Law and Associate Director of its Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, testified to negotiators of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement in Peru this week that they should reject…
For immediate release. By Sean Flynn, sflynn@wcl.american.edu Lima, Peru. Among the US Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) proposals leaked today was a proposed chapter on “Transparency and Procedural Fairness for Healthcare Technologies,” more widely known as the Pharmaceutical Pricing Chapter. All…
With the U.S. round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) underway in Chicago, intellectual property and information policy experts from around the world have released a Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest that challenges the dominant direction…
Public Citizen Conference Call Briefing on Trade Negotiations Underway in the United States Contact: Arthur Stamoulis arthur@citizenstrade.org WHAT: Fair trade advocates from the United States, New Zealand and Australia will provide a press briefing via conference call on key…
Congress To Issue a Declaration to Establish Priorities for Promoting the Public Interest in Intellectual Property Law and Policy CONTACT: Sean Flynn 202-294-5749 sflynn@wcl.american.edu Seeking to ensure that public policy initiatives concerning intellectual property serve the public interest, more than…
Today at New York University I will be participating in the official launch of the multi-year multi-country study of Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (), edited by Joe Karaganis at SSRC. Mike Palmedo and I contributed to the report, in…
New York (March 7 2011)—Today, the Social Science Research Council released the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia. Based on three…
USTR has published its annual report, compiled with assistance from the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Justice, Labor, and State. The report, describes the government’s work to strengthen IP norms and enforcement, including through ACTA and other…
On February 16, 2011 at 10am the full Senate Judiciary will hold a hearing on efforts to shut down websites where IP-infringing content is hosted. The witnesses will include representatives from Rosetta Stone, the Authors Guild, GoDaddy!, Verizon, and Visa. …
Peter Maybarduk (Public Citizen) and Sean Flynn (representing Forum on Democracy and Trade) met with USTR staff on February 3 to be briefed on the administration’s negotiation of the TPP with respect to the planned IP chapter and the rumored…
PIJIP’s Peter Jaszi and the Center for Social Media’s Pat Aufderheide, co-facilitated by UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Urban and Poetry Foundation’s Kate Coles, have just released a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry (PDF). The code is a…
An opinion on ACTA drafted by European academics identifies the most critical aspects of ACTA and shows how it clashes both with EU law and with the enforcement provisions of the TRIPS Agreement. FFII reports that EU trade negotiator Pedro…