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This note comments on each provision of the leaked RCEP IP chapter (dated October 2015) in brief. Patent is omitted, where I defer to others with expertise in that area of international IP law. It argues that like so many negotiating (and unfortunately, final) texts of recent IP chapters in trade agreements, there are proposals […]
[Prashant Reddy for IPKat, Link (CC-BY)] Academic publishing houses, OUP and CUP have suffered yet another defeat in their litigation against Delhi University and a photocopy shop when a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court ruled against them in an appeal on December 9, 2016. The crux of the lawsuit was whether the practice of photocopying […]
[MEP Therese Comodini Cachia, Rapporteur on Copyright Reform, Link] Say ‘copyright’ and often citizens immediately think of how they are unable to access or share music, films, images and news and of the several times when they are faced with messages saying a particular content is not available in their country of residence. This reflects […]
Andy, TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY-NC) A court in Germany has held the operator of a commercial website liable after it unknowingly linked to infringing content hosted elsewhere. The Hamburg Regional Court found that the link to a Creative Commons image, posted to another site without the correct attribution, amounted to a copyright infringement. Author REPOST
[Timothy Vollmer, Communia, Link (CC-0)] Today we are publishing the second in a series of position papers dealing with the various parts of the European Commission’s proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (see our first paper on the education exception here). Today’s paper deals with the Commission’s proposal to introduce […]
Abstract: In 2000, my colleague Yousuf Vawda and I became active in the global campaign to address intellectual property rights (IPRs), human rights, and barriers to access to affordable medicines for treating HIV and AIDS in South Africa. This paper details their academic collaboration, their activist-oriented “clinical” offering, and the vibrant campaign that it helped […]
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