by Matthew C. Porterfield & Christopher R. Byrnes Originally published on July 12, 2011 in the Investment Treaty News, a newsletter of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Matthew C. Porterfield is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the…
In a letter to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, ten members of Congress have asked for a meeting to discuss “the approach your office is considering for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement negotiations that would undermine public health and access…
Aaron Swartz, the founder of the nonprofit Demand Progress and a fellow at Harvard University’s Safra Centre for Ethics, was arrested last month for downloading 4.8 million JSTOR articles from a server at MIT. If convicted, he faces up to…
The UK plans to modernize intellectual property law by implementing the recommendations in the May 2010 Hargreaves report. It announcement highlighted reforms including exceptions to copyright for private copying, parody, and text and data mining by researchers, as well as…