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EIFL campaign to mark UNESCO World Book & Copyright Day and WIPO World Intellectual Property Day 2016 [Teresa Hackett, Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] In the digital environment, librarians deal with questions of copyright every day. But restrictive copyright laws can hinder the library’s efforts to provide access to knowledge. Two global copyright days […]
[Tim Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] April saw lots of activity on the open science front in the European Union. On April 19, the European Commission officially announced its plans to create an “Open Science Cloud”. Accompanying this initiative, the Commission stated it will require that scientific data produced by projects under Horizon 2020 (Europe’s […]
India’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (“DIPP”) released in March, earlier this year, a discussion paper on standard essential patents and their availability on fair, reasonable and non discriminatory terms. Available here – http://dipp.nic.in/english/Discuss_paper/Feedback.aspx DIPP should also be publishing all of the feedback that it receives on the above link. The deadline was submission […]
[Jessica Coates, ADA, Link (CC-BY)] The Australian Digital Alliance (ADA) welcomes the sensible and much needed proposals for changes to Australia’s copyright law contained in the draft report of the Productivity Commission’s Intellectual Property Arrangement Inquiry, which was released today. The draft report finds that “Australia’s copyright arrangements are weighed too heavily in favour of […]
Presented by the Colombian civil society organizations: Ifarma Foundation, Misión Salud and CIMUN Dear Mr. Bhanu Pratap Sharma, Chairman. We would like to transmit to you and all assistants our best wishes for the success of this session, where governments, intergovernmental bodies and non-state actors are trying to get one step closer on mechanisms that […]
Authors: Dirk Czarnitzki, Thorsten Doherr, Paula Schliessler, and Andrew A. Toole Abstract: We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent rights influence academic entrepreneurship. In 2002, the German Federal Government enacted a major reform called Knowledge Creates Markets that set up new infrastructure to […]
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