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[Tim Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] Last month the United Nations released a report with recommendations on how to improve innovation and access to health technologies. The panel’s charge called for it to “recommend solutions for remedying the policy incoherence between the justifiable rights of inventors, international human rights law, trade rules and public health […]
Originally posted on EFF Deeplinks blog, Link (CC-BY) This week, EFF has been at the World Trade Organization (WTO)’s annual Public Forum. Best known to the general public as the locus of anti-globalization protests at its 1999 Ministerial Conference, it’s ironic that the WTO is today the most open and transparent of trade negotiation bodies—an […]
Authors: Christopher Anthony Cotropia and James Gibson Abstract: The nearly twenty-year history of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provisions has been marked by criticism from content owners, online service providers, and end users. Content owners complain about the cost of monitoring online content and sending take-down notices. Online service providers complain about the […]
How TTIP may obstruct progress towards sustainable access to medicines [Tessel Mellema, Sophie Bloemen and Peter Maybarduk, Link, (CC-BY-NC)] The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations pose serious risks to Europeans’ access to medicines and affordable healthcare. TTIP is likely to help entrench a broken medical innovation system rather than seize today’s opportunities to […]
Joint submission authored by Yousuf Vawda, Andrew Rens, Andrew Rens, Brook Baker, Tobias Schonwetter, and Achal Prabhala; and co-submitted by 44 other academics, experts, scholars and advocates. The full submission is available here as a printable PDF. The introduction follows. The Department of Trade and Industry’s (the dti) Intellectual Property Consultative Framework (the Framework) identifies […]
Teresa Hackett, Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY) On 30th September 2016, the Marrakesh Treaty for persons with print disabilities enters into force. The treaty is a game-changer for people who are blind or partially sighted, as well as for libraries that serve people with print disabilities. From now on, in all countries that are […]
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