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Testimony to U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property

[Matthew Sag] ... Although we are still a long way from the science fiction version of artificial general intelligence that thinks, feels, and refuses to “open the pod bay doors”, recent advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence (“AI”) have captured the public’s imagination and lawmakers’ interest. We now have large language models (“LLMs”) that can pass the bar exam,
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Colombia to Challenge AIDS Drug Patents

[Public Citizen Press Release] Colombia will soon decide whether to authorize price-cutting generic competition with a critical patented AIDS drug, directly challenging pharmaceutical industry power under a new health ministry resolution in one of the hemisphere's most influential states. In anticipation of the decision, https://www.citizen.org/article/letter-to-colombias-minister-of-health-supporting-colombias-right-to-issue-a-compulsory-license-for-hiv-treatment-dolutegravir/ Colombian Minister of Health Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo to support expanding access to dolutegravir, calling the
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An International Instrument on Copyright and Educational Uses: Regulatory Models and Lessons

[Faith O. Majekolagbe and Giulia Priora] Abstract: There has been a renewed interest in the adoption of an international instrument on copyright and educational uses at the World Intellectual Property Organization since the COVID-19 pandemic which necessitated an unprecedented large-scale switch to digital education in many countries and brought to the fore the need to address copyright barriers to educational
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Time for a stocktaking exercise and the way forward in technology transfer

[Guillermo Rodrigo Corredor] The technological stocktaking for developing countries after the pandemic is quite ambiguous. Although the crisis was stopped using state-of-the-art vaccines that reached the most disadvantaged and remote places in record times, effective access to the new technologies that became available to curb the pandemic is, at least for the time being, less spectacular.
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US Copyright Act Can Address AI Without Amendment

[Katherine Klosek] This month, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) issued principles to guide policymakers in their conversations around copyright law and AI. LCA is the voice of the library community on copyright policy; its members—the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)—represent over 300,000 information professionals and thousands of libraries. The LCA principles hold that US
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Meeting with WIPO Director General Daren Tang, Spotlights NGOs’ Crucial Role in Intellectual Property Landscape

[Andrés Izquierdo] On behalf of WCL PIJIP and the Global Network on Copyright User Rights, Andrés Izquierdo attended a meeting organized by Daren Tang, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO. The meeting had the participation of more than 40 accredited NGOs and industry stakeholder groups. This meeting served to highlight the pivotal role played by NGOs
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