[Cross posted from the Assoc. of Research Libraries (CC-BY) by AU Professors Patricia Aufderheide, Brandon Butler and Peter Jaszi.] Copyright Week is the perfect occasion to celebrate fair use, certainly the most dynamic and arguably the most important doctrine in…
[Cross posted from CCUSA, Link (CC-BY)] Much of what we hear about the globalization of copyright law around the world does not favor users. The dominant trend of lengthening terms, increasing criminalization and “deterrent” penalties and expanding third party liability…
[Maria del Pilar Sáenz in Las 2 Orillas, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] Hace más de un año un anuncio de la universidad de Harvard estremeció a la comunidad académica: la universidad no estaba dispuesta a seguir pagando los altos costos que implica…
[Tim Vollmer. Reposted from Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] The public domain is the DNA of creativity. Whereby current copyright law requires permission in order to use a work, the public domain is a copyright-free zone whereby anyone can use the…
[Internet Association, Link (CC-BY-SA)] The Internet Association appreciates Chairman Baucus and Ranking Member Hatch’s recognition that the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act of 2014 must address key trade issues in the marketplace. The Internet drives global trade and commerce and…
[Unni Karunakara in PLoS, Link (CC-BY)] Open data and data sharing are essential for maximizing the benefits that can be obtained from institutional and research datasets [1]. In 2012, the medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) decided to adopt…
[Maximiliano Marzetti, IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-ND)] The Congress of Argentina recently passed a landmark law making publicly funded science and technology research publications free and open access. On 13 November, the Argentinian Congress passed a law (No. 26.899, Creating Institutional…
Movimiento Derecho a la Cultura LAC Latin America, Link (CC-BY-SA) 2013 has been a year of deep discussions about copyright in Uruguay, which has ended with a copyright law reform intended to add exceptions and remove criminal sanctions for nonprofit…
To date, 200 people from around the world have signed the Third Global Congress Global Congress Declaration on Fundamental Public Interest Principles for International Intellectual Property Negotiations. The Declaration, drafted at the recent Global Congress in Cape Town, South Africa,…
Researchers, scholars and policy specialists from over 40 countries drafted and endorsed a declaration of Fundamental Public Interest Principles for International Intellectual Property Negotiations that are starkly at odds with some trade agreement negotiations. The Principles were adopted at the…
The copyright industries hire a lot of people, and employment figures are often used to argue for stronger protection for rightholders. But do the industries in countries with stronger protection for rightholders hire more people than the same industries in…
[Creative Commons U.S.A. Link (CC-BY)] Yesterday, Representatives Hinojosa and Miller introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act. The text mirrors that of the Senate bill introduced last week by Senators Durbin and Franken (see CCUSA’s statement on the Senate bill here).…