Analysis at the intersection of intellectual
property law and the public interest.
The Bill is exceptional in including what will be the world’s most well considered and detailed fair use right. The fair use and education rights are eminently reasonable for a country founded on the principle that all laws must promote the Bill of Rights, including rights to freedom of speech, to receive information, and to education.
[Michael Carrier] My testimony to the Health Subcommittee of the House Energy & Commerce Committee supports legislation being considered to lower high drug prices. First, I support the CREATES Act and FAST Generics Act, which would ensure that generic companies receive the samples they need to enter the market. Second, I support the FAIR Generics Act, which would ensure that
[Electronic Information for Libraries] The updated copyright law, replacing the previous law adopted in 2011, came into effect in Laos in June 2018. WIPO’s Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives (SCCR/35/6) found that while the 2011 law in Laos had some basic exceptions allowing certain uses of copyright protected works, there were no explicit library exceptions.
On March 12, 2019, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University Washington College of Law jointly held an event with Knowledge Ecology International and the Library Copyright Alliance on “Copyright Limitations and Exceptions at the World Intellectual Property Organization.” Regular observers of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights
[ReCreate South Africa] ReCreate South Africa (“ReCreate”) is a non-profit association, established in 2018 to advocate for a balanced Copyright Act that includes modern creators’ rights. ReCreate is a coalition of writers, filmmakers, photographers, educational content producers, software and video game developers, technology entrepreneurs, artists, poets, producers of accessible format materials, freedom of expression advocates, and other South African creators...
[Abhishek Nagaraj and Imke Reimers] Abstract: The age of digitization promised to deliver a centralized, digital repository of all knowledge. Copyright holders, however, concerned about reduced demand for physical works, have blocked the realization of this vision. We investigate the effect of digitization on demand for physical works using novel data tracking the timing of the digitization of individual books