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At the opening of the thirty-second session of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP), the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC), represented by the delegation of Brazil, welcomed reports highlighting WIPO’s contributions to sustainable development goals, particularly emphasizing inclusivity in intellectual property (IP) systems. While acknowledging progress in implementing the WIPO Development Agenda, […]
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”-84px|auto||auto||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] Sean Flynn, James Love, Jonathan Band, Geneva, 2024 There is a significant push at this week’s meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights to […]
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet examined the standards and policy considerations that should be applied to whether IP protection should be given to inventions (patents) or creative works (copyrights) generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence, including whether current and proposed rules […]
Ambassador Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota from Brazil delivered the Group of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (GRULAC) opening statement at the Forty-Fifth Session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) on April 15, 2024. The statement addressed several key issues. GRULAC discussed the revised WIPO Treaty on Broadcasting Organizations, emphasizing the […]
In a recent paper on the copyright issues emerging with the rise of generative AI, Christophe Geiger delves into how copyright laws should evolve from a human rights perspective. He advocates for copyright law which centers human creativity and creators, rather than just safeguarding the financial investments in AI technologies. Geiger suggests that AI should […]
Desmond Oriakhogba recently published a set of suggestions for amendments to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Good Practice Toolkit for Collective Management Organisations 2021 (CMO Toolkit) through American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. The suggestions are intended to prevent CMOs from constituting obstacles to open access non-commercial licensing and L&Es-enabled access for […]
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