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Reconsiderations on global and local manufacturing of medical products after COVID-19

[Germán Velásquez] The unprecedented global health crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic since the first quarter of 2020 has reopened the now-urgent discussion about the role of local pharmaceutical production in addressing the health needs in developing countries. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the interdependencies in the global production of pharmaceuticals—no country is self-sufficient. Many industrialized countries are making
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Open Education Lightning Talks: Recordings and Slides

[Cable Green] In December, the CC Open Education Platform hosted a series of open education “lightning talks” (7 minutes + Q&A) in which open education practitioners discussed their work and answered questions with a global audience. We are grateful to all 24 speakers for sharing their open education work. To maximize access, we recorded all of the talks with the
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European Digital Single Market Directive Implementaion Update: More Propsals to Protect User Rights

[Communia Association] The implementation deadline for the Copyright in the Digital Single Market is a mere five months ahead of us. On the 7th of June, the EU Member States are expected to have implemented the 2019 update of the EU copyright rules. With less than half a year to go, it is looking increasingly unlikely that more than a
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Publishers Sue Sci-Hub and LibGen in India for Copyright Infringement, Seek to Have Websites Blocked

Three major academic publishers sued Sci-Hub and Libgen for copyright infringement in the Delhi High Court on December 21. Both sites provide unauthorized downloads of academic works to students and researchers. The publishers - Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society - are asking the judge to require dynamic blocking of the websites.
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Licensing Life-Saving Drugs for Developing Countries: Evidence from the Medicines Patent Pool

[Alberto Galasso, Mark Schankerman] Abstract: We study the effects of a patent pool on the licensing and adoption of life-saving drugs in low- and middle-income countries. Using data on licensing and sales for HIV, hepatitis C and tuberculosis drugs, we show that there is an immediate and large increase in licensing by generic firms when a patent is included in
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Intellectual Property, Global Inequality and Subnational Policy Variations

[Peter Yu] Abstract: Commissioned for an edited volume on intellectual property, innovation and global inequality, this chapter begins by discussing where developments in middle-income countries fit into the North-South debate. The chapter then moves from the frequently discussed inequality among countries to inequality within countries—a topic that has received fast-growing attention from trade and development economists but that the intellectual
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