Day July 19, 2021

Text and Data Mining Exception in South America: A Way to Foster AI Development in the Region

[Matías Jackson Bertón] Abstract: In 2015, authors wondered if Europe was falling behind in the artificial intelligence (AI) race because of the lack of a text and data mining (TDM) exception. What can then be said for South America? Copyright regimes and their interaction with the development of digital technologies in this continent have been overlooked by authors. This paper intends to start filling this gap by mapping the current state of copyright exceptions that serve computational analysis in South America. After reviewing the copyright regimes of the five largest economies of the region (i.e. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru), I concluded that they are not prepared for digital research techniques such as text and data mining.

Overview of SCCR 41 Progress on A2K Priorities: Broadcast, Copyright and COVID, Limitations and Exceptions

[Sean Flynn] PIJIP and other members of the global Access to Knowledge (A2K) Coalition participated as registered observers in the 41st meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. This note summarizes the positions of delegations and the recorded outcomes of that meeting in relation to the policy aims of the Coalition.

The Effect of Patent Disclosure Quality on Innovation

[Travis Dyer, Stephen Glaeser, Mark H. Lang and Caroline Sprecher] Abstract: The patent system grants inventors temporary monopoly rights in exchange for a public disclosure detailing their innovation. These disclosures are meant to allow others to recreate and build on the patented innovation. We examine how the quality of these disclosures affects follow-on innovation. We use the plausibly exogenous assignment to patent applications of patent examiners who differ in their enforcement of disclosure requirements as a source of variation in disclosure quality. We find that some examiners are significantly more lenient with respect to patent disclosure quality requirements, and that patents granted by these examiners include significantly lower-quality disclosures. These patents generate significantly less follow-on innovation.