Co-authored by Carolina Rossini and Carolina Botero. Reposted from the EFF Deeplinks Blog. After years of being one of the most progressive regions in the world in terms of balanced copyright policy, Latin America is unfortunately sliding into copyright maximalism,…
[Blog by Leena Menghaney, India Manager of the Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign. Originally posted as a BMJ Blog under a CC-BY-NC license.] This month, two critical legal battles between multinational pharmaceutical companies and the Indian government are taking center…
Proposed Pan-African IP Organization a Terrible Idea In a stunning development, following an obscure vote of Heads of State at the Africa Union in 2007 (Assembly Council 138(VIII)), the AU Scientific, Technical, and Research Commission has proposed a draft statute…