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Joint Comment to WIPO on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

[Joint comment to WIPO endorsed by 16 members of the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights] We submit this comment in response to the World Intellectual Property Organization request in relation to its work on the impact of artificial intelligence (Al) on intellectual property (IP)... We comment here only on the copyright related questions in section 13. Some of
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The Case for Disclosure of Original Biologics Manufacturing Information

[Yaniv Heled] Abstract: Ten years after the enactment of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA), competition in biologics markets remains scant and far from sufficient for lowering prices of biologics to the level of 80-90% price drops seen in generic drug markets. This reality is not a result of one or two cardinal reasons, but many. If lowering
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WIPO and the US Copyright Office Examine Artificial Intelligence and, to Lesser Extent, Intellectual Property

[Andrés Izquierdo and Sean Flynn] On February 5, 2020, the U.S. Copyright Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) co-sponsored a well-attended event on Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The full-day event took an in-depth look at the development and operation of artificial intelligence (“AI”). It paid substantially less attention to the full range of intellectual
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Letter to the Prime Minister of India from Organisations and Experts Working on Access to Healthcare and Medicines

[34 Civil society groups and individuals] ... we are concerned with demands of the United States to do away with the price controls on medical devices as part of the ongoing negotiations on US India trade deal. We are also apprehensive of the US pressure on India, which has been exerted continuously and will surely intensify following the deal, for
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Policy Incoherence for Stagnation: How Richer Countries’ Position at WIPO Contradicts their Commitments to the Rest of the World

[International Federation of Library Associations] ... The European External Action Service runs many projects on education, culture and research. Yet in its position at WIPO, it works against these goals. For a start, blocking progress towards an international instrument removes a key impetus to carry out reforms that would allow key actors in culture, education and research to do their
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Post-Hearing Statement to USTR, re: Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Review of South Africa

[Sean Flynn and Peter Jaszi] This statement provides additional information in regard to the complaint by IIPA against South Africa in both the GSP docket... As explained by the many participants in the public hearing, all of the issues complained about in the Copyright Amendments Bill (CAB) have analogues in U.S. law or in the law of other countries that
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