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property law serves the public interest.
[La Quadrature du Net, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] Yesterday, MEP Julia Reda presented in the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) of the European Parliament a report on the harmonization of copyright in Europe. She tables modest but welcome proposals for a reform of copyright, several of which have been supported by La Quadrature du Net. Noting that […]
[Joint Letter from 12 American NGOs] We write as American organizations in advance of your trip to India this month to ask you to support India’s central role in providing high-quality, low-cost generic medicines—which are essential for health care around the world. Recent U.S. policy stances have sought to topple parts of India’s intellectual property […]
January 26, 2015 | 9:30 – 2:30 American University School of International Service Printable agenda & directions (PDF) Co-hosted by the AU School of International Service and AU Washington College of Law’s Program on International Organizations, Law and Diplomacy The event will be streamed live at http://bit.ly/1ExHnX9. Author PIJIP
[Press Release from Juliareda.eu, Link, (CC-BY)] EU copyright rules are maladapted to the increase of cross-border cultural exchange facilitated by the Internet, an upcoming European Parliament own-initiative report evaluating 2001’s copyright directive finds. The draft released today by Julia Reda, MEP for the German Pirate Party, lays out an ambitious reform agenda for the overhaul […]
[Reposted from technollama.com, Link, CC-BY-NC)] Some weeks ago I was asked to comment on whether tweets are subject to copyright protection. Unsurprisingly, this is a common question that gets asked over and over again, as some of the information online is contradictory and misleading, or refers to other jurisdictions. Do we have an answer in […]
As you may have noticed last night in the SOTU, trade secrecy (and trade secret law reform) remains on the national radar screen. Thus, I’m pleased to report that Sharon Sandeen and I have co-authored Here Come the Trade Secret Trolls, published today in the Washington & Lee Law Review Online: http://lawreview.journals.wlu.io/here-come-the-trade-secret-trolls/. The abstract is below: Author […]
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