Advocating for a world where intellectual
property law serves the public interest.
[Nick Shockey, SPARC, Link (CC-BY)] Hundreds of events will take place across the globe to highlight the power of Open Access to increase the impact of scientific and scholarly research during the 10th annual International Open Access Week taking place from October 23-29, 2017. This year’s theme of “Open in Order to…” is meant to move […]
UC Irvine Law Review 2018, Volume 8, Issue 3, Forthcoming CEIPI Research Paper No. 2017-08 Abstract: Copyright was originally intended to serve creators as an engine of free expression, protecting them from the interference of others and from all risk of censorship. To this end, a balance was conceived between exclusive control and freedom and […]
Dean Baker[1], Arjun Jayadev[2] and Joseph Stiglitz[3] | Full Paper (CC-BY) Introduction: The twenty first century global economy will differ from that of the twentieth in at least two critical ways. First, the weight of the developing world in the global economy will be substantially higher. In particular, emerging economies such as China, Brazil, India and […]
[Catherine Saez, IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] World Trade Organization committee members this week were asked to recommend to the upcoming ministerial conference whether to lift or indefinitely prolong a moratorium shielding intellectual property from complaints between members not involving a breach of a WTO agreement. Short of a consensus, the intellectual property committee will have […]
Christophe Geiger, Giancarlo Frosio, Oleksandr Bulayenko The European Commission’s planned copyright reform proposes to adapt EU law to the challenges emerging in the Digital Single Market (DSM).[1] In particular, new mandatory exceptions and limitations should contribute to improving the creative ecosystem in the digital environment. This CEIPI Opinion does support the plan to develop a—much […]
[Andrew Rens] The parliamentary portfolio committee on trade and industry is debating a bill to amend the 1978 Copyright Act. The bill, which originated with the Department of Trade and Industry, is intended to give legacy industries such as publishing and civil society institutions such as libraries at least some of the concession they have […]
Posts by Category
- Video
- User Rights Network
- US Domestic Policies
- US Domestic Legislation
- Transparency
- Trade Agreements
- Takedown
- Trade Disputes
- Trademark
- Round-up
- Regional Fora
- Surveys and Data
- Positive Agenda
- Patent Pledges
- Open
- News
- Multilateral Fora
- Limitations and Exceptions
- IP & Research
- IP and Human Rights
- Industry Initiatives
- Flagged
- Fair Use
- Events
- Empirical Research
- Document Library
- Coronavirus
- Brazil
- Blog
- Bilateral Trade Pressures
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI
- Africa Group Work Plan Proposal
- Africa: Copyright & Public Interest
- Access to Medicine
- Academic Resources