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The Center for International Intellectual Property Studies is hosting, in partnership with the members of the EIPIN network and the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts (Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland USA), the 17th EIPIN Congress, which will be held in Strasbourg, from the 28th to 30th January, Palais universitaire. […]
Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 15-14 Abstract: In order to enable future creativity, some uses are traditionally kept outside the control of the right owner through limitations to the exclusive right. Uses covered by a limitation can lead to an obligation to pay a fair remuneration to the creator. In […]
Four companies to help speed access to curative direct-acting antiviral in 112 low- and middle-income countries [MPP Press release, Link, (CC-BY-NC-ND)] Geneva, 20 January 2016 – The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced its first round of sub-licences for the generic production of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s daclatasvir, a novel direct-acting antiviral that is proven to help cure […]
[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] The 31st session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR), that met in Geneva from 7 to 11 December 2015, had a full agenda that included discussion on the protection of broadcast organizations, limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives, presentation of a study on museums, […]
Open Letter Signed by 40 Academics as January 12, 2016 Posted to SSRN by Robin Feldman, Mark Lemley, Jonathan Masur and Arti Rai As scholars who write in intellectual property (“IP”), we write this letter with aspirations of reaching the highest ethical norms possible for our field. In particular, we have noted an influx of […]
Allan Rocha de Souza [1], Alexandre de Serpa Pinto Fairbanks [2], and Wemerton Monteiro de Souza [3] Intellectual Property Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA) The Marrakesh Treaty, first of its kind, will enter into force three months after the deposit of the instruments of ratification or accession by 20 eligible countries. So far, thirteen have done so. […]
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