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In a special session about TPP at the Chilean House of Representatives, Heraldo Muñoz, the local Foreign Affairs Minister, identified intellectual property and pharmaceutical patents as the most sensitive issues for Chile in the negotiation. In a two-hour session at the the House of Representatives Chilean Foreign Affairs Minister Heraldo Muñoz presented the benefits and […]
Though the recently scheduled Ministerial meeting was postponed – reflecting other countries’ frustration with the United States’ inability to win Congressional passage of Fast Track trade negotiating authority – the intellectual property negotiators have been attempting to finalize as much text as possible. The Japan Times reports that the intellectual property chapter appears “likely to […]
[Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link, (CC-BY)] Today Creative Commons and 22 other organizations published a letter urging the publishing giant Elsevier to alter its newly revised policy regarding the sharing and hosting of academic articles so that it better supports access to scholarly research. Elsevier’s new policy, announced 30 April 2015, is detrimental to article […]
Joint letter to Congress PDF with signatures on eff.org Dear Members of Congress: We write to you as a community representing thousands of our nation’s innovators, entrepreneurs, job-‐creators, and users to express our concern over trade agreements such as the Trans-‐Pacific Partnership (TPP). Despite containing many provisions that go far beyond the scope of traditional […]
Sean Flynn, American University Washington College of Law, 202-294-5749, sflynn@wcl.american.edu David Levine, Elon University School of Law, 336-279-9298, dlevine3@elon.edu Senators Blumenthal, Brown, Baldwin, and Udall introduced today a trade negotiation transparency bill that would require that all formal U.S. proposals for trade agreement restrictions on domestic regulations be posted on a website. This is a […]
This post presents preliminary data showing that firms in industries sensitive to copyright can succeed in countries other than the U.S. when copyright limitations include fair use. It is an early product of an interdisciplinary project at American University, in which legal researchers are working with economics professor Walter Park to study how country’s copyright […]
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