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[Medicins Sans Fronteirs] Dear Dr Stoffels: For the past decade, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been in dialogue with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) about the critically important TB drug bedaquiline, including on access to bedaquiline for MSF-run clinical trials, compassionate use of bedaquiline for people with extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB), and routine use of bedaquiline to treat multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB)
[Patricia Aufderheide, Kylie Pappalardo, Nicolas Suzor and Jessica Stevens] Abstract: The kind and extent of exceptions and limitations to copyright monopolies are a major focus of copyright reform discussion worldwide. The debate is often portrayed as pitting the interests of creators against users. Australian copyright law features narrow and limited exceptions. Australian creators benefit from copyright monopolies; but do they
As the NAFTA negotiations hit a possible home stretch this week, the focal point has been primarily on issues such as dispute resolution, the dairy sector, and the auto industry. However, the digital policy issues will have huge implications for Canada and the outline of the agreement between the U.S. and Mexico suggests that Canada is facing considerable pressure to
Dear Ambassador Lighthizer: As you work toward a conclusion in the renegotiation of the North American Free trade Agreement (NAFTA) with both Mexico and Canada, I write to reiterate my strong support for the protection and preservation of access to affordable medicines in any final agreement(s).
[Pamela Samuelson and Kathryn Hashimoto] Abstract: The compatibility of the U.S. fair use doctrine with international treaty norms has been questioned many times over the years by European and even American commentators. Does the fair use limitation on copyright's exclusive rights comport with the "three-step test" that regulates the permissible scope of exceptions in national copyright laws under Article 9(2)
[EIFL] The new guide, titled ‘Getting Started. Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty for persons with print disabilities - A practical guide for librarians’, is mainly aimed at librarians in countries that have joined the Marrakesh Treaty, and where national implementation is completed or advanced.
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