Day October 11, 2018

Submission by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) on the Statutory Review of the Canadian Copyright Act

[Gerald Leitner] IFLA specifically expresses support for the following points: A) Maintain the fair dealing exception for education... B) Retain the current copyright term of 50 years... C) Protect copyright exceptions from contract override and allow the circumvention of technological protection measures for non-infringing purposes... D) Provide clarity on the legal status of text and data mining (TDM)... E) Ensure e-book availability... F) Indigenous Knowledge.

Biological Drugs – Challenges to Access

[Third World Network] In this paper Dr. Sengupta examines the landscape of biological medicines, and locates this analysis in the characteristics of biological drugs which set them apart from small molecule drugs (SMDs). These characteristics of biological drugs impact on the way these drugs are manufactured; on the development of follow-on versions of innovator biological drugs; on the way biological drugs – both innovators and follow-ons – are regulated; on the way these drugs are protected by different kinds of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and data protection mechanisms; and on the opportunities and challenges in the introduction of biological drugs, including biosimilars, in a range of countries.