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QUT Media, 11 November 2020 11th November 2020 A multi-stranded strategy is needed to reach the lofty goal of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (CREATE), says a chief investigator and co-director of the project’s legal dimension, QUT Professor Matthew Rimmer. Ending the tobacco industry will take a mix of […]
[Anthony Rosborough] Abstract: This analysis examines the impact of software technological protection measures (“TPMs”) in the European Union which inhibit the repair and maintenance of products. Using John Deere tractors as a case study, this analysis addresses the growing number of products which incorporate computerization and TPM-protected software into their design and function. In utilizing software integration and TPMs, many
[Research Symposium, QUT Faculty of Law, 29 October 2020] This event focused upon copyright law and the creative industries. It brought together legal scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners; creative artists from an array of disciplines; as well as theorists of new media and digital technologies. The event considered the origins of copyright law, policy, and practice. Speakers explored their recent historical
[Martin Senftleben and Christina Angelopoulos] Abstract: EU law provides explicitly that intermediaries may not be obliged to monitor their service in a general manner in order to detect and prevent the illegal activity of their users. However, a misunderstanding of the difference between monitoring specific content and monitoring FOR specific content is a recurrent theme in the debate on intermediary
[Pablo Lavarello and Sebastián Sztulwark] Given that high-cost biopharmaceutical drug patents have started to expire since the early 2000s, biotechnology opens up opportunities for developing countries to pursue an upgrading process by entering the sector as early imitators. Developing these opportunities was transformed on priority needs of health systems since the outbreak of COVID-19. Certain developing countries have advanced in
[Joshua Sarnoff] As the world confronts the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WTO’s TRIPS Council has rejected the proposal by India and South Africa for the WTO to temporarily waive the intellectual property rights requirements of the TRIPS Agreement in regard to copyrights, industrial designs, patents, and trade secrets. Notwithstanding, countries will continue to exercise TRIPS flexibilities in
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