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[Open A.I.R., Link, (CC-BY-SA)]This Briefing Note highlights Open A.I.R. research findings on apparent disconnects between African national policymaking on intellectual property (IP) from publicly funded research and the actual current realities of university research. In both Ethiopia and South Africa, it was found that recent policymaking has focused on university patenting as a key incentive for […]
Public Citizen Testifies Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Explains How to Reduce Cost of Therapies [Public Citizen Press Release, Link] The federal government should act to dramatically lower the cost of new and prohibitively pricey medications to treat hepatitis C (HCV), Public Citizen President Robert Weissman told U.S. Senate lawmakers today (PDF). […]
[Médecins Sans Frontières, Link] As the 6th round of negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement take place in India, people living with HIV are rallying in the streets of New Delhi to warn that harmful intellectual property (IP) provisions – put forth by Japan – could severely restrict access to affordable […]
Authors: Stefan Larsson, Måns Svensson, Peter Mezei, and Marcin De Kaminski Abstract:The challenge that illegal file-sharing poses to legal criminalisation is addressed in this study. Nonetheless, the pretexts and reasons for the specific character of file-sharing behaviour and norms in a community likely, to various degrees, correlate with the specifics in the legal regulation relating […]
[Lawyers Collective, India] As you know, transnational pharmaceutical companies and the US Government are putting pressure on the Indian Government to change India’s IP laws especially the Indian Patents Act, which will make medicines unaffordable to millions of people in India and other developing countries. Peoples’ groups, patients’ networks and civil society organizations have come […]
Eleonora Rabinovich, Digital Rights LAC, Link (CC-BY-SA) The Argentine Supreme Court has finally published its ruling on intermediary liability. The Court, grounded on strong principles, solved an issue which had generated contradictory and-in many cases-problematic jurisprudence within the country. However, there are still some issues which shall be clarified by future regulations. Author REPOST
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