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[Andy for TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY-NC)] The CEO and chairman of the RIAA says that the current notice and takedown anti-piracy process is both costly and increasingly pointless. Cary Sherman says the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA have forced labels into a “never-ending game” of whack-a-mole while sites under its protection effectively obtain a discount […]
[Maira Sutton, EFF, Link (CC-BY)] Copyright restricts all kinds of important, everyday uses of creative works—even worse, these strict rules last nearly two lifetimes for any given work. We are fighting to reform and push back against these restrictions in the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), especially those that undermine the public’s ability to use, research, […]
This week Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will meet their Indian counterparts for the first meeting of the U.S.-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue (S&CD). The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee have written Kerry and Pritzker asking for continued […]
Author: M. Monirul Azam Abstract: This study analyzes the policy options used by Brazil, India, and South Africa in their transition to a TRIPS-compliant patent law and the introduction of pharmaceutical patents. This comparative review can be used to explore possible policy options that could also be utilized by Least Developed Countries, including Bangladesh. Author […]
[Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, Link (CC-BY)] The European Commission has published its investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) reform proposal for the EU-US trade agreement under negotiation (TTIP). Introduction: The commission’s proposal institutionalises discrimination. It gives foreign investors – and only foreign investors – the right to exit domestic legal systems and use supranational adjudication […]
[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link, (CC-BY))] On 3-4 September 2015, EIFL co-organized the first seminar in Nepal dedicated to library copyright issues, in cooperation with our partners, the Nepal Library and Information Consortium (NeLIC). The sub-regional seminar provided an introduction to copyright and the copyright system, as well as library provisions in the copyright law […]
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