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Intellectual Property and Education in the Age of COVID-19

Research Symposium, QUT Faculty of Law, 29 July 2020 Overview This event will consider the relationship between intellectual property and higher education in the age of the public health crisis over the coronavirus COVID-19. It will bring together scholars, experts, and practitioners in law, business, and education, and examine this topic from a range of […]

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WHO, WIPO, WTO launch updated study on access to medical technologies and innovation

[World Intellectual Property Organization press release] On 29 July, the Directors-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) presented a new edition of the Trilateral Study on Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation. Building on the first edition launched in 2013, the publication seeks to strengthen the understanding of
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EIFL Urges Brazil to Maximize the Benefits of the Marrakesh Treaty to Expand the Global Availability of Accessible Format Works for Persons with Print Disabilities

[Electronic Information for Libraries] EIFL welcomed the opportunity to submit comments on Brazil’s implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty for persons with print disabilities. The comments focused on Article 4(4) of the treaty, an optional provision that allows a country to confine exceptions to works that are not available on the commercial market under reasonable terms, the so-called ‘commercial availability test’.
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The COVID-19 Vaccine Race: Intellectual Property, Collaboration(s), Nationalism and Misinformation

[Ana Santos Rutschman] Abstract: Vaccines have long played a crucial role in the prevention, mitigation and eradication of infectious diseases. More than any other recent outbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the phenomenon of the vaccine race to the forefront of personal, national and global preoccupations. This symposium contribution examines the early features and takeaways of the COVID-19 vaccine race
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How Far Can Regulations Go? A South African Public Law Perspective on the Potential Response through Regulations to Legitimate and Genuine Issues in the Copyright Amendment Bill, B-13B of 2017

[Jonathan Klaaren] Abstract: This working paper addresses several issues in South African law relevant to determining whether and to what extent regulations may address genuine problems in the Copyright Amendment Bill [CAB]. Regulations are of course not yet drafted for this Bill and the Bill remains a Bill and is not yet an Act. Indeed, as discussed further below, the
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MEP Pospíšil Asks Why the European Commission Intervened in the South African Copyright Amendment Bill

Last March, the European Commission sent a letter to the South African government warning that its proposed Copyright Amendments Bill carried a "significant legal uncertainty, with negative effects on the South African creative community in general and on foreign investment, including European investment." In May, MEP Jiří POSPÍŠIL asked who from the Commission sent the letter and why they did
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