[La Quadrature du Net, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] Just as the Julia Reda report (GREEN/EFA – DE MEP) on copyright reform was being discussed this week in the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), another report was examined today by the Committee on Culture…
[Médecins du Monde press release, Link] Today, Doctors of the World – Médecins du Monde (MDM) has filed a European patent challenge against the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) drug, sofosbuvir. In recent months, Médecins du Monde and its partners have…
[La Quadrature du Net, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] Yesterday, MEP Julia Reda presented in the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) of the European Parliament a report on the harmonization of copyright in Europe. She tables modest but welcome proposals for a reform…
[Press Release from Juliareda.eu, Link, (CC-BY)] EU copyright rules are maladapted to the increase of cross-border cultural exchange facilitated by the Internet, an upcoming European Parliament own-initiative report evaluating 2001’s copyright directive finds. The draft released today by Julia Reda,…
Will 2015 be the year of European copyright reform? [Theresa Hackett, EIFL, Link (CC-BY)] “Copyright divide in numbers”, the graph on the first page of the newly launched ‘The Copyright Manifesto. How the European Union should Support Innovation and Creativity…
Multi-sectoral NGO coalition calls for greater protections for consumers, journalists, whistleblowers, researchers and workers Joint statement by 15 NGOs Link to PDF on Health Action International Site We strongly oppose the hasty push by the European Commission and Council for…
Research Paper 56. South Centre. LINK TO FULL PAPER on SOUTHCENTRE.INT Executive Summary: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) suffers from numerous communicable and non-communicable diseases, with significant socio-economic effects, and adversely impacting the development prospects of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Many of…
[Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign] The European Union’s (EU) free trade and research and development (R&D) policies promote excessive intellectual property (IP) protection. This approach jeopardises access to affordable, needed medicines and impedes needs-driven biomedical innovation. Médecins Sans Frontières Access…
[John Hendrik Weitzmann, Communia Assoc., Link, (CC0)] Last week Communia joined the “European Observatory on Infringements of IPR” which is hosted by the European Union’s Office of Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). The Observatory’s task is to provide the EU…
Opinion on the Judgment of the CJEU in Case C-201/13 Deckmyn Abstract: In this opinion, the European Copyright Society (ECS) puts on record its views on the issues raised by the Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European…
[Paul Keller, Communia, Link, (CC0)] In 2013 the European Union enacted Directive 2013/37/EU amending Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information (PSI). The 2013 directive is an important pillar of the European Union’s open data strategy. It establishes…
[Paul Keller, Communia Association, June 25, Link, (CC-0)] Earlier this week the IPKat leaked what appears to be an internal draft of the European Commission’s white paper on copyright policy reform (“A copyright policy for Creativity and Innovation in the…